On Wednesday, 30 April 2025, from 14:00 - 16:00 CET, Renew Europe, University of Coimbra, and PAN Europe are hosting a ‘Soils for Europe’ hybrid event at the European Parliament. The meeting is organised in the SOLO framework and is open to online attendance through registration.

The ‘Soils for Europe’ meeting follows the trilogue agreement on the proposal for a Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive that took place on 9 April 2025. The session will bring together experts and policy-makers to explore key aspects of the proposed Directive, soil health and functions, as well as soil monitoring and management. It aims at further strengthening the science-policy interface on soils and taking a closer look at the practical aspects of the Directive at the national level. 

The meeting will start with a warm welcome from Martin Hojsík, Vice-President of the European Parliament, while moderation will be led by the SOLO coordinator Carlos Guerra and project partner Kristine De Schamphelaere. 

You can find a list of the confirmed speakers, among which SOLO project partner Teresa Pinto Correia, below: 

• Carlos Guerra, University of Coimbra, Project coordinator of SOLO

• Teresa Pinto Correia, University of Évora, Soil Mission Board 

• Paul Bodelier, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen

• André Daniel Silva Trindade, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development (DGADR)

• Marcel van der Heijden, Agroscope, Switzerland 

• Joeri Dewelde, farmer, Hoeve Begijns agro, Belgium

• Wim De Kinderen, ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs) - SOILL

• Rajasekaran Murugan, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna

The final program of the event will be shared soon!