About the EJP SOIL Secretariat

We depend on soils.
They provide many ecosystem services.
Still, they’re being degraded while we’re facing global challenges. It is then crucial to foster climate-smart and sustainable management of soils, and in particular, of agricultural soils.

The European Joint Programme Soil was implemented and co-funded by the European Commission and by 24 European countries, with a long-term objective to align soil related research at a national and at a European scale.
For this, we performed a wide range of activities. Considered to be knowledge development, knowledge sharing and transfer, knowledge harmonisation, organisation and storage and knowledge application.

What lies ahead for soil research in Europe?

Provisional strategic research agenda (2025– 2035) for agricultural soil research in Europe