To raise soil awarness, the ESP reaches out with its partners and other networks that are more focused on soil awareness – we have summarized some of them below. The offical website of the ESP (www.europeansoilpartnership.org) will serve as a platform and highlight key outcomes; in the future we need to establish a mechanism to capture events and best practices. If you can contribute to that, please write to the secretariat.

• Networks:
  European Network on Soil Awareness (ENSA)
  European Land and Soil Alliance (ELSA) with national soil alliances in Italy, Austria, Slowakia, Czechia, Hungary
  • Newsletter, annual report, annual conference (29-30 Sept. 2022)
  • ESP cannot catalyse activities due to lack of funding
• Alpine Subregional partnership: Teaching materials (see here)
• There are a number of exciting documents and media on country level that make the topic of soil / soil protection "more understandable" for a wide variety of target groups: Be it for teaching in highschool, university, for decision-makers, experts from other disciplines or the interested public, some good examples: Learning materials highschools (e.g. Germany); Soilcast https://soilcast.de/, Bodeninfo.net (Austria), soil+land stewardship (Flanders).
• EU Soil Mission projects:
  • LOESS: Development and testing of innovative educational materials for school pupils, students & general public
  • NBSoil: Nature-based solutions for soil management
  • PREPSOIL: Including: 2022 call for best teaching practices
  • HuMUS: Healthy municipal Soils: Improve soil literacy in the society

• New ESP website: Mechanism to capture soil information (projects, publications) and related events