Tag: soilprotection

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 […]

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

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! […]

ECHO Ambassador – Mateusz Ciasnocha

Our call for ECHO Ambassadors is still open. In September we started presenting those who decided to join our project. One of our Ambassadors transport us to Żuławy Wiślane (the Vistula Fens), Poland . This fascinating region located in the northern part of the country is made unique by the fact that a large part […]

Meet Ezio Casali, ECHO Ambassador from Italy!

“My interest in the ECHO project starts from the awareness and belief that, in the current environmental and climatic situation, soil represents one of the key elements for improving the conditions of environmental, economic, and social sustainability, which in my view represents the true goal to pursue to leave future generations a planet in good […]

Meet Project ECHO Leaders: Margherita Caggiano, Re Soil

Upon entering Re Soil’s website, we are greeted with a motto: “No soil, no future”. Despite your foundation’s involvement in a variety of different projects, would you say that most of them revolve around the topic of soil? Soil is a vital resource. It provides us with nutritious food and other products, as well as […]

ECHO x PlantAnim

On June 28th project ECHO was presented at the PlantAnim Symposium in Porto, Portugal – an event made possible by the efforts of Ruth Pereira (GreenUPorto/FCUP), gabriel marais (BIOPOLIS & CIBIO) and the DBIO. The theme of this year’s Symposium was “Citizen Science and what it can do for projects on plants, soil and associated organisms”. […]

Meet Project ECHO Leaders: Monika Witek, PLANTPRESS

From Italy and Spain, we move on to Poland: home of the juiciest apples, the sweetest beets, and one of our ECHO Leaders, Monika Witek from Plantpress. As the head of the communications team, she makes sure that both professionals and the public alike are up-to-date on all things ECHO. But what are her own […]

ECHO at Greek National Event of NATI00NS

ECHO partners spread the word about our objectives by participating in many events. This time ECHO was presented in Thessaloniki. On May 21 American Farm School co-organized the Greek National Event of NATI00NS project: the Soil Mission and Living Labs calls 2024. National events under the NATI00NS project raise awareness of the European Union’s Soil […]