The Horizon Europe Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ (Mission Soil) will hold the second edition of the European Mission Soil Week on 12-13 November 2024 in Brussels, Belgium.
Soil health holds a high position in the EU political agenda. The Green Deal and other policies recognise soil health as an essential element for achieving their objectives, such as climate neutrality, stopping desertification and land degradation or reversing biodiversity loss.
The European Mission Soil Week is an annual event designed as a major European gathering that brings together the European soil community. Researchers, policymakers, farmers, foresters, spatial planners, landowners and land managers, businesses and organisations as well as the general interested public meet to discuss challenges, opportunities and solutions for healthy soils. The European Mission Soil Week therefore brings together and mobilises communities to protect and restore soil health.
The European Mission Soil Week 2023 was held in Madrid and was a great success, welcoming hundreds of participants in person and online and reaching out to 1.6 million people on social media. It enabled participants to communicate, disseminate and inform themselves of solutions based on the latest research results and innovations for healthy soils.