Projects: Awareness and Engagement

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

Training programmes & online courses

• Training program to build the capacity of Soil Stewards (HuMUS project)
• Agroecology training guidelines (AE4EU)
• Online course soil education in STEM teaching (LOESS)
• SoilAcademy - two-year training prototype for existing and aiming soil advisors: theoretical and practical knowledge and skills to provide advice for sustainable soil management (NBSOIL)

Learning materials

• Childrens brochure about good soil (Tudi)
• Comics (yet to come) (SoilTribes)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)

Art & Music

• SPINFERT: art & science platform
• SOILSCAPE: Eight soil orchestras in France, Switzerland, Portugal, Italy, Bulgaria, Germany, Poland and Finland

Educational apps

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