Soil

Public Events

Soil remediation and soil sealing

On 10-11 May 2012, the Environment Directorate-General of the European Commission will host a high-level conference on soil remediation and soil sealing. Please click here for more information.

Remediation of contaminated sites - key for an efficient land management in the EU

On 10 November 2011, the Environment Directorate-General of the European Commission, in cooperation with the German state of Saxony, hosted a one day-conference in Brussels to address site remediation and its links to a more efficient land use in the EU. Please click here for more information.

In the context of the Greenweek 2011, soil was presented at the following events:

• Soil sealing, floods and fragmentation – an avoidable catastrophe?, Wednesday 25 May -  9:30-11:00
• Film "Il suolo minacciato" (Land Under Threat), Italian version, Wednesday 25 May -  13:15-14:15 
• Film "Il suolo minacciato" (Land Under Threat), Italian version with English subtitles, Wednesday 25 May -  13:15-14:15 
• "Abandoned?" exhibition  (Charlemagne, 2nd  floor)
• "Abandoned?" web site

Soil, Climate Change and Biodiversity – Where do we stand?

On 23 and 24 September 2010, the Environment Directorate-General of the European Commission, in cooperation with the Joint Research Centre, hosted a high-level conference on the interrelations between soil, climate change and biodiversity. Please click here for more information.

Greenweek, Brussels 1-4 June 2010

In the context of the Greenweek 2010, soil was presented at the following events:

• Dirt! The Movie Wednesday, 2 June - 13:30 -14:30
• The soil life we walk on - does it matter? Wednesday, 2 June - 14:30 - 16:00

Conference Climate Change - can soil make a difference?

For more information on the conference on Climate Change - can soil make a difference? organised by the European Commission in Brussels on 12th June 2008, please click here.

Greenweek, Brussels 3-6 June 2008

For more information on Soil sealing - a prospect of starvation (for soil bugs) and flooding (for us), an event held in Brussels on 4th June in the context of GreenWeek 2008, please click here.

For more information on What lives below? The soil is alive!, a soil and biodiversity event organised by the European Commission in Bonn (Germany) on 22nd May 2008 on the occasion of the International Day for Biological Diversity, please click here.