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ECHO meets MISSION SOIL projects

Last week, we spent our Thursday morning in the excellent company of other Mission Soil projects: CURIOSOIL project, LOESS, SOILL-Startup, MONALISA, Project Credible, InBestSoil, NBSOIL Project, DeepHorizon Project, SOILL and ENoLL (European Network of Living Labs)! We believe we can all benefit from each other’s experiences, the problems we faced, and their solutions 🧪 We […]

ECHO x Österreich forscht

As part of the ECHO project, we are active across Europe, inviting citizen scientists interested in the condition of the soil to get involved.We just had to be there in Austria!Thank you The Citizen Science Network Austria and Österreich forscht for promoting ECHO in your database of projects, in which interested people can participate. 🌿 See our […]

Digging deep in Mokoszyn

Last week, we visited the Agricultural Education Centre in Mokoszyn – Sandomierz, Poland to thank them for participating in the project and for the exceptionally large number of samples collected. We would like to thank the school’s headmistress, Alicja Szatan, and ECHO ambassadors: Hubert Krakowiak and Anita Łukawska for coordinating these activities.We hope that ECHOsoilproject […]

SOIL BIODIVERSITY DATA in practice

Thanks to the contribution of our speakers, we have prepared a webinar dedicated to soil biodiversity data collected with ECHO 🌱Dr. Ilaria Fracasso (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) presented the soil biodiversity data collected with ECHO, helping participants better understand the importance of soil biodiversity, as well as the taxonomy and microbial functionality data from your […]

ECHOREPO is growing!

We now have over 5000 data entries – entries provided by you, our dear participants! Each soil sample taken with the #ECHOsoilkit turns into data, later accessible through the ECHOREPO website. Make sure to check it out! https://echorepo.echosoil.eu

World Soil Day 2025

Saluti da Roma! 🇮🇹 As part of this year’s World Soil Day celebration, our team got to visit the headquarters of the Italian Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA). There, we discussed the future of #soil among fellow scientists, researchers, and stakeholders. Amid the topics mentioned throughout the event, there was the importance of […]

ECHO at the Farmers and Agribusiness Forum

The 10th Farmers and Agribusiness Forum, one of the most important events for the agricultural sector in Poland, has just wrapped up in Poznań. Organized by AgroHorti Media, one of our ECHO Partners, the Forum hosted seven sessions, each dedicated to a different topic, giving all attendees a chance to discuss the future of the […]

Mission Soil Week 2025

This year, we got together in Aarhus, Denmark to discuss ways of improving the overall condition of European soils, with a special focus on funding and financing our initiatives 💰 Thanks to Céline Laurent, ECHO was part of the project trail session. Let us know if you were there, and if you had a chance […]

Team ECHO, assemble!

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of getting together for our General Assembly in Dundee, Scotland. As an international team, usually sprinkled all around Europe, we really enjoyed working together in the same space for a change! 🤝 We discussed our progress when it comes to our project’s main goals, and confirmed we’re on the right track! […]

Case in point

Summer is officially here, and our project is also warming up! In June, we organised a series of activities with the participation of the end users of ECHO soil data. Before this happened, each ECHO partner taking part in this endeavour identified a target group and a case, which is particularly important for their region. […]