n 5 December, ECN celebrated World Soil Day with a webinar on ‘Healthy Soils with Compost – the beneficial use of compost on soils’. The webinar was hosted by the Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences of the University of Bologna.
As the webinar focussed on the WSD theme 2024 “Caring for soils: Measure, Monitor, Manage”, the ECN Policy Officer Aline Granjard presented the latest EU institutional discussions on the Commission’s proposal for a Soil Monitoring Law.
As keynote speaker of the webinar, Professor Marco Grigatti from the University of Bologna reported on the first results of the long-term field trial on soil organic matter from compost application in Italy of the Navarra project 2018-2023.
Finally, ongoing collaborative projects on the mainstreaming of bio-waste management (Life BioBest) and on circular fertilisation on healthy soils (Fer-Play) were presented by Eva Lopez Hernandez, project manager of the Italian Compost and Biogas Association (CIC). An update on the Interreg project Composting in rural environments (CORE) was given by Stefanie Siebert, Executive Director of ECN.
The presentations of the webinar and the recording are available.
