Today, Tuesday,  May 29th 2018, the 3rd plenary meeting of the SoilCare project has started. The SoilCare resarchers were welcomed by AgroIntelli director Ole Green and Tommy Dalgaard, teamleader of the Aarhus University SoilCare team, the two SoilCare partners who are hosting this meeting.

Welcome speeches of the AgroIntelli and Aarhus University hosts and SoilCare project leader Rudi Hessel were given, followed by an overview of recent developments in soil science, given bij Oene Oenema.

Today also an introduction of Advisory Board member Hein ten Berge was given, who is joining this plenary meeting as an external expert and who will give a first-impression-feedback on his findings on Wednesday. The rest of the day is reserved for various WP presentations.

Friday, an excursion has been organised to the Askov Research Centre (Aarhus University) to see the 120 years long-term experiment. Below an impression of the ongoing meeting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The main function of the Project Advisory Board is the evaluation of project progress, and providing guidance regarding future work. The Project Advisory Board will be invited to attend the yearly plenary workshops. The Project Advisory Board will:

  1. evaluate progress made during the course of the project,
  2. give recommendations for further actions for consideration to the project consortium, and
  3. will facilitate a dialogue with fora representing the wider community.

For the Project Advisory Board, members of 5 different types of actor will be invited:

  • Policy makers in the fields of agriculture and management of natural resources,
  • A farmer organisation,
  • European or international organisations, active in the field of agriculture, natural resource management, soil degradation and ecosystem management,
  • The scientific/technical community,
  • Industrial community, in relation to the subjects addressed in the proposal.

Up to now, the following members of the PAB have been appointed:

Name Background  
  • Dr Agnieszka Romanowicz
    Research Programme Officer – International Cooperation, General aspects of soil, land and water
    AGRI.H.5 – Research and innovation, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development
    European Commission - LinkedIn
 Member is a policy maker
  • Toon De Keukelaere
    Adviseur Akkerbouw, Studiedienst Boerenbond, dossierhouder mestbeleid
 Member is from a farmer organisation
Member is from a European or international organisation  
  • Dr Hein ten Berge
    Wageningen Plant Research
    Agrosystems Research
    PO Box 16 
    6700AA WAGENINGEN
 Member is from the scientific / technical community Hein
  • Mikaël Davy
    Sprayer product manager at AMAZONE SA
    ZA pays d’Alnélois
    LinkedIn
 Member is from the industrial community
  • Etienne Diserens
    Independant consultant
    Frauenfeld, 
    Switzerland
 Member is from the scientific / technical community

This page displays the information that has become available after the plenary meeting that was held from Monday, March 13th until Thursday, March 16th 2017 in Chania, Greece. The presentations and images are listed below. After clicking the links, a folder on our SoilCare ownCloud server will open in a new browser window.

For finding the presentation you are looking for, a glance at the meeting program HERE can be convenient.

(Please do NOT use Internet Explorer when clicking the links below, but use Google Chrome or another browser instead)

  • Presentations from Monday, March 13th 2017 are listed in the folder HERE.
  • Presentations from Tuesday, March 14th 2017 are listed in the folder HERE.
  • Presentations from Wednesday, March 15th 2017 are listed in the folder HERE.
  • The images made during the meeting and the project excusion can be found in the gallery HERE (ownCloud) or HERE (Google photos).
  • The meeting notes can be downloaded HERE .

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