Third SoilCare Newsletter Published

The third SoilCare newsletter has now been published and can be downloaded here. This issue covers a range of topics, including:

1. New Report: Inventory of opportunities and bottlenecks in policy to facilitate the adoption of soil-improving techniques
2. Soil-improving cropping systems to be trialled in study sites
3. Study site feature - Flanders
4. SICS focus - Compaction-specific SICS
5. New SoilCare publications
6. Past and future events

Plenary Billund meeting successfully ended

On, Thursday,  May 31^st 2018, the 3rd plenary meeting of the SoilCare project was closed after almost a week of presentations and intensive discussions. 

Advisory Board member Hein ten Berge gave one of the last presentations. In that presentation he shared his impressions of the project and the scientists working on the project. A few remarks he made: 'Highly skilled / experienced / motivated team', 'Challenging complexity – implied in multi-actor approach', and; 'All exciting topics / practices' (about the study sites). In general, Hein was content with what he saw, and also left behind some insights to take home and potential future pitfalls. 
The plenary meeting was closed on Thursday by project leader Rudi Hessel.

On Friday, an excursion was organised to the Askov Research Centre (Aarhus University) to see the 120 years long-term experiment. After the excursion all attendees returned home.

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Project members can access the after-meeting-page, where all meeting material is shared(login first).

SoilCare review meeting and work package leader meeting

Colleagues of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), part of the University of Bern, were host of the past project review meeting and work package leader meetings that were organised in Bern, CH on December 12^th and 13^th 2017 respectively. Despite the bad weather in western Europe (a number of flights were cancelled due to snowstorms), the meetings were successfully conducted and participants were able to participate either live or through Skype connections. Although the reviewers had many questions and were, at some points, critical about the work in the project during the review meeting, they were generally satisfied with the performance of the project. 
The next day, on December 13^th, the review meeting was evaluated by the WP leaders and the project coordinators, and also project matters were discussed. 

Outputs of both meetings are listed at the Bern post-meeting information page (registered users only, login required).