In December 2022, the EC launched the Mission 'A Soil Deal for Europe' aiming to establish and fund 100 Living Labs (LL) and Lighthouses (LH) to drive the transition to healthy soils by 2030, in the framework of the Horizon Europe Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027). The first round of Soil Mission funded Soil Health Living Labs and Lighthouses are expected to be announced in mid-2024 at which time the PREPSOIL map will be updated to identify the Mission-funded Soil Health Living Labs and Lighthouse as well as other sites based on a more detailed taxonomy and in line with the criteria defining Soil Health LLs and LHs established in the Soil Mission Implementation Plan.
In the meantime, the PREPSOIL map aims to provide an overview of Soil Health initiatives across Europe that are active or starting their activities as Living Lab and Lighthouse, in order to facilitate knowledge exchange, networking and consortia creation.
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Experimentation SiteSoil Health initiatives are initiatives moving in a promising direction and that appear to be in line with the simple Assessment criteria set in the PREPSOIL taxonomy.
Emerging initiatives are potential and emerging initiatives including on-the-ground experiments and pilot projects,that have not yet fully aligned to the criteria.
Thank you for your interest in the PREPSOIL map of soil health Living Lab and Lighthouse initiatives
Please note that map registrations are now closed under PREPSOIL. The map is currently being transferred to SOILL, and registrations will resume once the transition is complete.
For future updates, please visit soill2030.eu or contact SOILL at info@soill2030.eu.