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Monday, 18 January 2016 14:40

Copyright and Disclaimer

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1. Disclaimer

All the data and information contained in the SOILCARE Project website (www.soilcare-project.eu) have been subject to a series of rigorous quality assurance procedures. However please note the following. The editors and authors are not able to guarantee the topicality, accuracy, completeness or quality of any data, information or methodology provided herein. Parts of this website (including all linked material) may be extended, changed or partly or completely deleted by the editors and authors without separate announcement. The editors and authors have no responsibility for determining the fitness or suitability of the data, information or methodologies for use by a third party. Neither SOILCARE nor the European Commission can be held accountable for any loss, damage, injury or any other occurrence arising from their use. The websites contain links to external sites over which SOILCARE has have no control, and for which we have no responsibility. The information displayed on this website, or in the publications that can be downloaded from here, does not necessarily represent the view of the European Commission. If you notice information on one of the previously mentioned websites that you believe should be corrected or updated, please contact us. We shall try to remedy the problem.

This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the SOILCARE Project website and the SOILCARE-HUB Information System website, or any other document you were referred from. If sections or individual terms of this statement are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain uninfluenced by this fact.

2. Copyright and conditions of use of SOILCARE products

The SOILCARE website is a proprietary product of the integrated research project SOILCARE (SOILCARE – for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe), co-funded by European Commission, Directorate General for Research under Framework Programme HORIZON 2020, [H2020-SFS-2015-2] (Contract Number [677407]) and is therefore protected by Copyright Law. The full ownership and all copyrights of all data, information and methodologies (including the text, images, audio and video files) contained in this website are reserved.

However, the ethos of the project is to disseminate information and promote further research about improving and developing cropping systems in the European context. Consequently, unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the website for non-commercial purposes is permitted, free of charge, under the following conditions.

Users are required to acknowledge the relevant author/s and the SOILCARE Project as a whole in all reference or publications that involve the use of SOILCARE data, information or methodology.

If the use of data, information or methodology is extensive, users must offer SOILCARE co-authorship of any proposed publication. SOILCARE will have the right to accept this offer, allow the user to publish in his/her own right, or refuse permission to publish.

Copies of, or a reference to, any publications which refer to these data, information or methodology should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

3. Privacy policy

If the opportunity is given in this website for the input of personal or business data (email address, name, postal address, etc); that input is voluntary. The use of all offered services is permitted (if and so far technically possible and reasonable) without specification of any personal data or under specification of anonymized data or an alias. The use of published postal addresses, telephone or fax numbers and email addresses for marketing purposes is prohibited. Measures will be taken against offenders sending unwanted (spam) messages.

Friday, 15 January 2016 10:19

19 UNIPD

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Partner 19 – Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova (DAFNAE-UNIPD)

DAFNAE, Via dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro (PD) – ITALY, Fax: +39 049 827 2784, Certified mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural resources, Animals and Environment, University of Padova

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Profile The "mission" of the Department of Agronomy Food Natural resources Animals and Environment (DAFNAE) is to promote the quality of human life, the competitiveness of the agri-food sector and the sustainable use of natural resources, biotic and abiotic, through the production and dissemination of knowledge on the management and improvement of plants, animals, soil and microorganisms for the production of quality food and biomass, ensuring the conservation of ecological systems, the protection of cultivated plants and enhancing the environment and biodiversity. DAFNAE develop excellent research and teaching in the fields of science and technology plant, animal and microbial soil, cultivation techniques and livestock, the environmental sustainability of agro-livestock and food biotechnology in agriculture and food and the environment, the preservation and enhancement of environmental resources and biodiversity, the properties technological products, and the evaluation and enhancement of the quality of the food.
Institute website http://www.dafnae.unipd.it/
Role in the project Study Site 9 coordinator
 
Personnel
Name Contact details Qualifications Photo
Prof. Antonio Berti Tel: +39 0498272828

Agronomist, expert in dynamic of cropping systems and SOC evolution, scenario analyses, designing and executing field work

For more information click HERE

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Prof. Francesco Morari Tel: +39 0498272857

Agronomist, expert in SOC dynamics, soil physics and on the application of precision agriculture techniques

For more information click HERE

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Thursday, 07 January 2016 14:33

Register a colleague

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The option of self-registration of colleagues has been disabled because too many spammers were registering.
If you are related to a project partner, and you want to be registered to this website, please contact Erik van den Elsen (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

Friday, 20 November 2015 14:17

Funding

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This project has received funding from the European Union HORIZON2020 Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 677407.

Key project facts


Project title:            Soil Care for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe.
Instrument:             H2020-SFS-2015-2
EU contract:            677407
Total cost:               7.628.403,00 Euro
EC Contribution:     6.999.993,00 Euro
Duration:                 5 years
Start date:               01 March 2016
End date:                28 February 2021
Consortium:            28 European partners
Project Coord.:        DLO-ALTERRA, NL. 
EU info:                   https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/677407

 

Friday, 20 November 2015 14:17

Work Packages

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The table below gives an overview of the Work Packages in the SoilCare project.

WP  Title Partner institute WP Leader WP Deputy
1 Project Management ALTERRA Rudi Hessel Erik van den Elsen
2 Review of soil-improving CS    ALTERRA Oene Oenema  Marius Heinen
3 Participatory selection of CS  NEWCASTLE Mark Reed  Niki Rust
4 Methodology to monitor and assess CS   UNIBE Abdallah Alaoui Felicitas Bachmann
5 Monitoring and assessment of CS  KUL Guido Wyseure  Jan Diels
6 Upscaling and synthesis RIKS  Hedwig van Delden  Simone Verzandvoort 
7 Policy analysis and policy support   MILIEU Melanie Muro Zuzana Lukacova
8 Dissemination and Communication GLOUCESTERSHIRE Jane Mills Julie Ingram

 

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WP1 Project Management

The overall objective of WP1 is two-fold: 1) to ensure proper activity management of the project, 2) to streamline administrative, financial, legal and IP (Intellectual Property) issues in order to enable RTD partners to focus on their research activities. Specific sub-objectives are:

  • Activity management to facilitate smooth operation of the project objectives by supporting the coordinator, WP leaders and other partners, and compiling the periodic activity reports
  • To handle all the financial, administrative and legal matters of the consortium
  • Address gender equality issues in the project
  • To ensure good communication within the project, and to parties outside the consortium
  • To organize plenary project meetings and to facilitate the organization of Scientific Board meetings

WP2 Review of soil-improving CS

The main purpose of WP2 is to review and assess currently used soil-improving cropping systems and agronomic techniques in EU. Specific objectives are:

  • To review soil-improving CS and their key driving forces, in Europe,
  • To analyse the strong and weak points (SWOT analysis) of the identified soil-improving CS, using agronomic, environmental, and social-economic criteria,
  • To develop and test a framework for classifying soil improving CS,
  • To derive threshold values for soil quality, and to identify the need for soil-improving CS as function of pedo-climatic zones in Europe, and
  • To develop and test a decision tool to be used for the pre-selection of key soil-improving CS.

WP3 Participatory selection of CS

  • Create multi-stakeholder advisory panels to guide and co-produce research in each study site
  • In collaboration with advisory panels, identify the most suitable ways and formats to disseminate project results within the study sites (in collaboration with WP8),
  • Using deliberative multi-criteria techniques, work with local consortium partners to facilitate local stakeholders in each study site to select cropping systems and agronomic techniques,
  • Collect evidence about social factors influencing the adoption of soil-improving innovations (identified initially by case study partners in WP2, and to inform the development of scenarios in WP6),
  • In selected sites, collect and analyse qualitative data to consider how the dynamics of trust and other factors may explain the social acceptability and adoption of soil-improving innovations such as new cropping systems.

WP4 Methodology to monitor and assess CS

The main objective of WP4 is to develop a comprehensive methodology for assessing both benefits and drawbacks of different CS, which will serve for monitoring as well as evaluation purposes.
Specific objectives are:

  • To develop and test a comprehensive assessment methodology for Study Sites;
  • To elaborate a monitoring plan for each Study Site in collaboration with WP5.

WP5 Monitoring and assessment of CS

  • Implement the soil-improving CS that were selected in WP3 for testing in collaboration with stakeholders
  • Monitoring these CS for 2-3 years to be able to assess performance under different weather conditions
  • Determine which soil-improving CS would be most suitable for each site
  • Give demonstrations of CS to stakeholder to share and discuss monitoring and assessment results
  • Building a common database which enables the comparison of the implementation, monitoring and assessment of the CS at the study sites

WP6 Upscaling and synthesis

The main objectives of WP6 are to:

  • Synthesize and integrate the results obtained by WPs 3-5 in the different Study Sites in order to draw general conclusions for the application of soil-improving CS
  • Develop and apply a quantitative, spatially explicit model to assess the impact of soil-improving CS at the European level under a set of future scenarios
  • Develop an interactive tool to assess the potential for application of soil-improving CS throughout Europe.

WP7 Policy analysis and policy support 

To identify good policy alternatives to adopt the soil-improving techniques researched in the other WP’s. More specifically, WP7 focuses on the institutional (governance) aspects of achieving smarter and more sustainable agriculture and has the following aims:

  • To review current policies with relevance for soil quality, soil degradation, and adoption of CS
  • To select policy alternatives to enhance soil quality and prevent land degradation in agriculture at various scales (Europe, national, sub-national and local) and following a participatory multi-actor approach.
  • To promote policies that can increase adoption of soil-improving CS, by translating scientific SOILCARE results into policy briefings

WP8 Dissemination and Communication

  • Develop an advanced and easy accessible SOILCARE Information Hub
  • Develop a Dissemination and Communication Strategy based on specified goals and objectives to raise the visibility of the project and to ensure project results reach the intended target audience
  • Develop a suite of dissemination products from the research outputs suited to different categories of stakeholders at Study Sites, national and European levels.
Friday, 20 November 2015 14:16

Project Partners

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Friday, 20 November 2015 14:15

Disclaimer and Copyright

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1. Disclaimer

All the data and information contained in the SOILCARE Project website (www.soilcare-project.eu) have been subject to a series of rigorous quality assurance procedures. However please note the following. The editors and authors are not able to guarantee the topicality, accuracy, completeness or quality of any data, information or methodology provided herein. Parts of this website (including all linked material) may be extended, changed or partly or completely deleted by the editors and authors without separate announcement. The editors and authors have no responsibility for determining the fitness or suitability of the data, information or methodologies for use by a third party. Neither SOILCARE nor the European Commission can be held accountable for any loss, damage, injury or any other occurrence arising from their use. The websites contain links to external sites over which SOILCARE has have no control, and for which we have no responsibility. The information displayed on this website, or in the publications that can be downloaded from here, does not necessarily represent the view of the European Commission. If you notice information on one of the previously mentioned websites that you believe should be corrected or updated, please contact us. We shall try to remedy the problem.

This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the SOILCARE Project website and the SOILCARE-HUB Information System website, or any other document you were referred from. If sections or individual terms of this statement are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain uninfluenced by this fact.

2. Copyright and conditions of use of SOILCARE products

The SOILCARE website is a proprietary product of the integrated research project SOILCARE (SOILCARE – for profitable and sustainable crop production in Europe), co-funded by European Commission, Directorate General for Research under Framework Programme HORIZON 2020, [H2020-SFS-2015-2] (Contract Number [677407]) and is therefore protected by Copyright Law. The full ownership and all copyrights of all data, information and methodologies (including the text, images, audio and video files) contained in this website are reserved.

However, the ethos of the project is to disseminate information and promote further research about improving and developing cropping systems in the European context. Consequently, unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the website for non-commercial purposes is permitted, free of charge, under the following conditions.

Users are required to acknowledge the relevant author/s and the SOILCARE Project as a whole in all reference or publications that involve the use of SOILCARE data, information or methodology.

If the use of data, information or methodology is extensive, users must offer SOILCARE co-authorship of any proposed publication. SOILCARE will have the right to accept this offer, allow the user to publish in his/her own right, or refuse permission to publish.

Copies of, or a reference to, any publications which refer to these data, information or methodology should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

3. Privacy policy

If the opportunity is given in this website for the input of personal or business data (email address, name, postal address, etc); that input is voluntary. The use of all offered services is permitted (if and so far technically possible and reasonable) without specification of any personal data or under specification of anonymized data or an alias. The use of published postal addresses, telephone or fax numbers and email addresses for marketing purposes is prohibited. Measures will be taken against offenders sending unwanted (spam) messages.

Friday, 20 November 2015 14:15

Activities

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This page gives an overview of SoilCare activities regarding the topics below. Click on one of the topics to open the corresponding page.

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