Healthy soils are the foundation for life on Earth, providing the basis of our food system, clean water and habitat for biodiversity, contributing to resilience to climate change, maintaining our cultural heritage and serving as the basis for our economy and prosperity. Soils are under many pressures, including climate change, urbanisation, pollution, over-exploitation, nutrient mining and biodiversity loss. The European Commission estimates that with current soil management practices, 60-70% of soils are unhealthy.
In the beginning of November (5-6 November 2024), a meeting of SOLO project partners and other experts was organised in Sofia (Bulgaria). The participants dedicated the two-day meeting exclusively to a better future for our soils.
The conference was also attended by two colleagues of Faculty of Environmental Protection, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Borut Vrščaj and Asst. Katja Črnec. They were invited to participate as experts in the field of soils, and the topic also overlaps with the field of the CURIOSOIL project, which we are currently implementing at FEP. The project aims to promote curiosity and literacy about soils.
