SoilCare presented at FOOD 2030 event
- Details
16th October, 2017, Brussels. Robert Pederson from Milieu, part of the SoilCare team looking at policy (WP7) presented the SoilCare project at the Science Policy Dialogue event 'Harnessing Research and Innovation for FOOD 2030. The conference aimed to disseminate successful European Research and Innovation initatives and to contribute to the ongoing science-policy dialogue in the area of Food Nutrition and Security. To find out more about the policy work within SoilCare, please contact Melanie Muro This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SoilCare review of soil advice contributing to European Soil Partnership Implementation Plan
- Details
28-29th September 2017, Bratislava SoilCare WP8 leader on Dissemination and Communication, Jane Mills from CCRI at University of Gloucestershire, was invited to present at the fifth European Network on Soil Awareness (ENSA) meeting in Bratislava 28-29th September 2017. The meeting, titled ‘Giving Soils a Voice 2017,’ brought together people who have a common aim of raising awareness of the importance of soil. A key aspect of the meeting was to discuss the European Soil Partnership (ESP) Implementation Plan 2017-2020 recently approved by the FAO. Jane’s presentation on ‘Soil education and advisory services’ drew on the WP8 report ‘Review of Soil Advice’ to highlight some of the challenges involved in delivering advice on soil management and identified specific actions for the ESP to help improve soil knowledge within the advisory services. For more information, please contact Jane Mills This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SoilCare promoted at the Bread Basket, Czech Republic
- Details
Ceske Budejovice, 24-29 August 2017 SoilCare leaflets were distributed at the high profile Bread Basket event in the Czech Republic. This was a 6 day international agricultural trade show held from 24th to the 29th August 2017 at the Vystaviste Ceske Budejovice in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. This event show-cased products like renewal and rural development, crop and livestock production, agricultural technology, food production, forestry and water management, horticulture and floriculture, agricultural services, others etc. in the agriculture and forestry industry. The photo shows SoilCare partner, Dr Pavel Čermák, from the Crop Research Institute, Czech Republic explaining the SoilCare project to a participant.
The Polish SoilCare team has been busy disseminating
- Details
Pulawy, 30-31 June 2017 The SoilCare Polish team from Institute of Agrophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, presented a poster on their work on fungal metabarcoding entitled “Fungal metabarcoding of soil fertilized with chicken manure” at the scientific conference: "Biodiversity of the environment - Significance, problems, challenges" in Pulawy, Poland. A poster entitled “Fungal metagenomes of soil amended with waste orgnaic matter” was also presented by the team at II Microbiological Symposium "Metagenoms of different environments" 29-30th June 2017. A further poster entitled “Metagenomic analysis of soil fungal community after application of mushrooms culturing leftover” was presented at the 51st National Scientific Conference "Environmental microbiology - an opportunity for safe living and biotechnological progress" 5-8th September 2107. The team has also been busy raising awareness of the project. They presented the project to students at the agricultural School in Czartajew and also distributed the SoilCare leaflets at the Science Picnic of Polish Radio and the Copernicus Science Centre - THE EARTH, in Warsaw. This is Europe’s largest outdoor event aimed at promoting science. For more information about the research work of the Polish team, please contact Jerzy LipiecThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
