PhD School

EJP SOIL aims at strengthening the training of emerging and established scientists working on agricultural soils across Europe and provide early career paths for scientists.

• Synthesis on current available European soil science higher education.

• PhD/MSc course program

• Support for staff exchange /visiting scientist.

EJP SOIL  also contributes to capacity building of a larger audience such as farmer advisors, by organizing courses on new tools for soil management and publishing educational material here on the EJP SOIL Website.

Click the links below to access material from recent EJP SOIL courses:

1. PhD Course - Soil Systems: Analytical methods for integrating the chemical and biophysical interface in soils. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, November 2021

2. INSPIRE course - April 2022 - Guiding national soil information providers towards INSPIRE compliance.  Wageningen University, the Netherlands, April 2022

3. PhD Course - Methods and tools for soil state and function at different scales University of Latvia, Latvia, September 2022

4. PhD Course (Summer School) - Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture University of Palermo, Italy, October 2022

5. PhD Course - Ecosystem services assessment in agricultural and periurban areas. AgroParisTech, France, April 2023

6. PhD Course - Merging measurements and modelling in soil physics. Aarhus University, Denmark, May 2023

7. PhD Course - Soil Systems: Analytical methods for integrating the chemical and biophysical interface in soils. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, June 2023

8. PhD Course - Data management and modelling: a model-based assessment of management options to maintain soil organic carbon stocks in agricultural soils. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden, May 2024

9. PhD Course (Summer School) - Soil organic matter management. Thünen Institute for Climate-Smart Agriculture, Germany, September 2024