Projects: Awareness and Engagement

Here we list project outputs related to AA 4 "Awareness raising and engagement". To add missing projects, please contact the ESP Secretariat.

Training programmes & online courses

• Agroecology training guidelines (AE4EU)
• GSP Global Soil Doctors Programme Educational Material
• Online course soil education in STEM teaching (LOESS)
• Soil Academy (NBSOIL)
• Soil coaches in the Netherlands (Aeres Highschool and Agricultural High Schools, for farmers and consultants of farmes)
• Training program to build the capacity of Soil Stewards (HuMUS project)

Learning materials

• Childrens brochure about good soil (Tudi)
• Educational Toolkit (LOESS)
• Factsheets and educational material on forest soils (HoliSoils)
• Factsheet on Paludiculture (Wet Horizons)
• Knowledge base and visioning cards (NBSOIL)
• Science Snack Cards in English, French, Swedish (EJP SOIL)
• Soil and Land Stewardship (Dutch, English)
• Storybook: The Scoop on Soils in Arabic, English, French, German, Norwegian, Spanish (for kids)
• Visual WIKI (CURIOSOIL)

Citizen data and citizen science

• Citizen science tools repository (Soil Health Benchmarks project)
• ECHOREPO – a long-term open access repository with a direct link to the EU Soil Observatory, displaying collected citizen science date (ECHO)
• Help uncover where Europe’s bees live (PROPOLLSOIL)

Soil education mapping

• CURIOSOIL: overview about existing soil initiatives with an educational component, best practices

Podcasts

• European voices on soil health (LOESS)
• Onderaards (Dutch podcast, where soil receives a voice)
• Pardon my planet: soil health series
• Podcast about soil health, sustainable farming, and community-led innovation across Europe (SOILCRATES)
• Podcast/Videocast “Soilspective” series exploring soils (yet to come) (Soil Tribes)
• Soilcast (German podcast)

Movies

• Planet Soil and Planet Soil Junior film

Soils & Art

• SPINFERT: art & science platform
• SOILSCAPE: eight soil orchestras in France, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, Poland and Finland
• Exhibition about Food systems including a chapter on living soils in Munich, Germany (22 April - 18 October 2026)

Educational apps

• +AR educational soil app (LOESS)
• Mobile app for soil literacy (PREPSOIL)
• Online game ‘Soil lab for teens’ (ECHO)

Further initatives

• Tegelwippen: initative/competition originated in the Netherlands but now spread to other countries, where citizens take tiles out of their streets, squares and gardens and plant flowers and trees
• Bewust Bodemgebruik (Conscious Soil Use): Dutch initiative where discissions on soil use, transformation, and addressing of themes related to soils are started. Outcomes include a Dutch spatial plan of the subsurface, an alliance on food forestry, TerrAgenda conferences to start discussions on robust soils underneath the SDG’s, a booklet Give soils a voice.