Soil Conference

Project description and aims

IMPEL is organising the 2015 Soil Conference, with the scope of sharing experiences and to support the implementation of best practices about soil protection among Practitioners at EU level. The context is the “International Year of Soils (IYS)”, declared by the United Nations for this year and, in general the opportunity of developing at awareness raising initiatives on protection of this vital environmental compartment.

Main topics that will be considered in the Conferences are: Soil protection and Industry, Agriculture, Land management, Enhancement of Natural Risks, Forestry, Biodiversity and Ecosystems, Soil Information collection and management.

The Conference is aimed at bringing together experiences, regulatory approach, problems and solutions in order to cope with the numerous challenges in this field; this need has been pointed out also by recent Implementation Challenge IMPEL study. The Conference will feed the discussion for priority and projects setting on soil topics in IMPEL Programmes.

The conference will take place 7 and 8 October 2015 at the Expo in Milan, Italy