The PREPSOIL Business Model Canvas (BMC) for Soil Living Labs (LLs) and Lighthouses (LHs) is a tailor-made tool created to support these initiatives in designing strategies for long-term stability. Built with the specific needs of Soil LLs and LHs in mind, the canvas offers a structured yet flexible framework to guide decision-making and communicate value to stakeholders. [Click here to read more]
As part of the PREPSOIL process, practical insights were gathered across a range of activities supporting LL and LH business model development. These examples reflect the lived experience of LLs and have been mapped to the various elements of the BMC.
To help users navigate this knowledge, the insights have been classified based on their relevance:
In this page, you'll find a filterable catalogue of insights linked to specific BMC elements and spheres of intervention. You can browse by:
For example, an agricultural LL looking for real-world insights of private sector engagement can select “Agriculture” under the Focus filter, and “Private Sector” under the 4. Key Stakeholders element.
These insights are intended to guide and inspire LLs and LHs as they build their own business models—recognizing that each lab’s ambition, capacity, and local context is unique.
Projects funded under the EU Mission Soil initiative should also ensure that their business models reflect the objectives outlined in the Mission Soil Implementation Plan, as well as the land use type they aim to address. This focus is essential for shaping effective and sustainable strategies.
A deeper dive into the methodology and development process behind the BMC.
Detailed instructions and guiding questions for completing each section of the canvas.
Urban development leads to soil compaction, contamination, and loss of green spaces negatively impacting soil health and limiting community access to healthy environments and recreational areas
Historical waste deposits and contaminated sites can pose risks to their surroundings such as densely populated areas, ecosystems and cop production on arable land
Combination of challenges related to multifunctionality of land use and variability of challenges (e.g. contamination, resource use, sealing of land, etc. under the pressures of climate change)
Reduce soil pollution by mitigating negative externalities (e.g. pollution, contaminations, emission) and enhance restoration
Conserve and increase soil organic stocks
Reduce the EU global footprint on soils
Transit to healthy soils to facilitate the restoration of the natural system, and thereby its potential to deliver ecosystem services
Improve soil structure to enhance soil biodiversity
Use green, gentle and sustainable remediation
Stop soil sealing and increase reuse of urban soils
Transform polluted, flooded and private owned brownfields into other uses (e.g. public parks, housing)
Follow novel approaches in housing, which limit land take and soil sealing