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JaneENSAPresentation28-29th 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.

 

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Pavel BreadBasketevent1200x150Ceske 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.

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MagdalenaFrac ConferencePulawy, 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.

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ICPA ExhibitionIasi, 28-30 June 2017 The SoilCare team from National Research and Development Institute for Soil Science Agrochemistry and Environment – ICPA Bucuresti took part in the 21st International Exhibition of Inventics, INVENTICA 2017 in Iasi, Romania and raised awareness of the SoilCare project. The exhibition participants and the national delegations had the opportunity to individually promote their products and achievements. The event also provided many opportunities for the participants to exchange new ideas and application experiences and to establish research or business relationships. Participants from both the research and business fields were interested in hearing about the SoilCare project, especially about the ways in which soil quality can be improved by applying cropping systems and techniques with high benefits both for the farms and the environment. Leaflets were distributed for those interested in SoilCare project.

  1. SoilCare presented at DG Clima Workshop on “Climate Action in Agriculture and Forestry"
  2. SoilCare presented at final conference of LIFE project Operation CO2
  3. Chania Study Site presentation
  4. Plenary SoilCare meeting in Chania successfully finished