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On, Thursday,  May 31st 2018, the 3rd plenary meeting of the SoilCare project was closed after almost a week of presentations and intensive discussions. 

Advisory Board member Hein ten Berge gave one of the last presentations. In that presentation he shared his impressions of the project and the scientists working on the project. A few remarks he made: 'Highly skilled / experienced / motivated team', 'Challenging complexity – implied in multi-actor approach', and; 'All exciting topics / practices' (about the study sites). In general, Hein was content with what he saw, and also left behind some insights to take home and potential future pitfalls. 
The plenary meeting was closed on Thursday by project leader Rudi Hessel.

On Friday, an excursion was organised to the Askov Research Centre (Aarhus University) to see the 120 years long-term experiment. After the excursion all attendees returned home.

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Project members can access the after-meeting-page, where all meeting material is shared(login first).

Project leader Rudi Hessel closes the meeting
Project leader Rudi Hessel closes the meeting
Meeting hosts Tommy Dalgaard, Ole Green and Kamila Torrielli are thanked by Rudi for their efforts.
Meeting hosts Tommy Dalgaard, Ole Green and Kamila Torrielli are thanked by Rudi for their efforts.
Work Package discussion in progress
Work Package discussion in progress
Study Site Poster pitches
Study Site Poster pitches
WP3 LEGO assignment
WP3 LEGO assignment
ASKOV experimental station visit
ASKOV experimental station visit

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Colleagues of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), part of the University of Bern, were host of the past project review meeting and work package leader meetings that were organised in Bern, CH on December 12th and 13th 2017 respectively. Despite the bad weather in western Europe (a number of flights were cancelled due to snowstorms), the meetings were successfully conducted and participants were able to participate either live or through Skype connections. Although the reviewers had many questions and were, at some points, critical about the work in the project during the review meeting, they were generally satisfied with the performance of the project. 
The next day, on December 13th, the review meeting was evaluated by the WP leaders and the project coordinators, and also project matters were discussed. 

Outputs of both meetings are listed at the Bern post-meeting information page (registered users only, login required).

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Newsletter2Front pageThe second SoilCare newsletter is now available and can be downloaded here. This issue covers:

  1. New Report: Review of Soil-improving cropping systems

  2. Selection of soil-improving cropping systems to be tested

  3. SICS Focus: Erosion-specific SICS

  4. Study Site Feature, Almeria, Spain

  5. New SoiCare publications

  6. Past events/presentations

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Recently, a project profile was written about the SoilCare project and added to the project listing of the CommBeBiz website. CommBeBiz is a website that 'provides a bridge from bioeconomy research to business, and for social innovation. It works with FP7 and H2020 project partners at all stages of their ideas and research development to enable more effective and speedier transfer of knowledge to the marketplace, to policy-players and for the public good. CommBeBiz targets five specialist bioeconomy segments: Food, Agriculture , Fisheries, Forestry, and Biotechnology.'

With the addition of the SoilCare project, we hope to reach a wider audience and also hope to be able to disseminate our research to other channels. The project profile for SoilCare can be found under 'Library > Project Briefs'.

  1. Work Package Leader meeting / EU Review meeting in Bern
  2. SoilCare presented at FOOD 2030 event
  3. SoilCare review of soil advice contributing to European Soil Partnership Implementation Plan
  4. SoilCare promoted at the Bread Basket, Czech Republic