Living labs to enhance soil health in Alpine and Atlantic biogeographical regions
Project Proposal
Seeking project coordinator and partners: Living labs to enhance soil health in Alpine and Atlantic biogeographical regions
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KNEIA is seeking a project coordinator and partners to participate in the ATLANTIS project to enhance soil health and resilience in the Atlantic biogeographical region by establishing multiple interdisciplinary living labs that co-design, implement, and demonstrate innovative, locally adapted soil management solutions, fostering knowledge exchange, socio-ecological transformation, and long-term sustainability of soil ecosystems.
TOPIC: “HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-01-two-stage: Living labs to enhance soil health in Alpine and Atlantic biogeographical regions” indicates: “The Mission Soil proposes the deployment of living labs as a novel approach to research and innovation in soil health315. Living labs have the potential to facilitate a green transition by involving multiple actors in real-life sites within a local/regional setting to co-create soil health solutions and achieve large-scale impacts on soil health and soil governance.” (…) Proposals should: 1. support the establishment of four to five living labs either in the Alpine or in the Atlantic biogeographical region (…) Living labs under each proposal should work together on common soil health challenge(s) relevant to the selected biogeographical region. The living labs must be located in at least three different Member States and/or Associated Countries. Proposals should explain the rationale and mechanism for cooperation within and across the living labs and how the work undertaken will contribute to one or more of the Mission’s specific objectives”.
The outcomes of the project will contribute to the Mission Soil objective of achieving healthy soils by 2030 by strengthening soil health and resilience across the Atlantic biogeographical region through participatory living labs that deliver scientifically robust, socially accepted and economically viable soil management solutions, support evidence-based soil governance, enable large-scale replication and upscaling of best practices, and ensure long-term availability of FAIR soil health data and knowledge for policy, land managers and society.
If you are interested, please contact the manager in charge of proposals Ciro Avolio ([email protected])