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1 st European Summer School on Soil Survey 21-25 July 2003 Luca Montanarella EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE

1 st European Summer School on Soil Survey 21-25 July 2003 Luca Montanarella EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE Institute for Environment and Sustainability. What is the Joint Research Centre?. The JRC is one of the twenty-four Directorate Generals of the European Commission .

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1 st European Summer School on Soil Survey 21-25 July 2003 Luca Montanarella EUROPEAN COMMISSION JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE

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  1. 1st European Summer School on Soil Survey • 21-25 July 2003 • Luca Montanarella • EUROPEAN COMMISSION • JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE • Institute for Environment and Sustainability

  2. What is the Joint Research Centre? The JRC is one of the twenty-four Directorate Generals of the European Commission European Commission 20 Commissioners DG DG DG CCR RECHERCHE BUDGET AGRICULTURE DG Mr Philippe Busquin European Commissioner for Research DG RESEARCH DG JRC ……… DG ENVIRONMENT and TWENTY OTHER DGs

  3. Organisational Chart

  4. Institutional Actions

  5. Enlargement Activities 2003 Actions • 20 new non-Statutory positions (almost all IES Actions) • Burnt Area Mapping • Analysis of Urban and Regional Development • Greenhouse Gases Emissions from Eastern European agriculture • Indicators for Sustainable Management of Waste • The PEOPLE Project • By end June 2003, IES had received around 100 applications from 2003 Call for Applicants. • 20 Workshops and Advanced Training Courses • Improvement of Emission Inventories • Water Quality /Eutrophication in the Black and Baltic Seas • European Summer School on Soil Survey • ESDI • 350 participants from Enlargement States

  6. Bruxelles, le 16.4.2002 COM(2002) 179 final COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE COUNCIL, THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT, THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE AND THE COMMITTEE OF THE REGIONS Towards a Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/agriculture/soil_protection.htm

  7. Streamlining the flow of policy relevant soil information in Europe Georeferenced Soil Database for Europe EU Soil Monitoring (ICP Forest+LUCAS,etc.) Reporting policy relevant soil data aggregated by administrative units National Soil Monitoring National Soil Surveys Soil Mapping Unit (Soilscape) Normalised Statistical Unit ACCESS HARMONISATION REPORTING

  8. A common soil information system for an enlarged European Union

  9. European Soil Information System Soil data EUROPEAN SOIL BUREAU NETWORK

  10. CD ROM of the European Soil Database

  11. Planned extension of the European Soil Database

  12. From the Global to the Local ScaleEUSIS - A nested soil information system for Europe Different scales give answers to different questions Global assessments World Soil and Terrain Database 1 : 5,000,000 FAO Soil Geographical Database of Europe 1 : 1,000,000 EU 1 : 250,000 Georeferenced Soil Database of Europe Member States Catchment Information System 1 : 50,000 Regions 1 : 5000 Soil Monitoring Sites Communes Spatial planning Precision farming EUROPEAN SOIL BUREAU

  13. 1st European summer school on soil survey 27 students (21 financed by JRC, 6 self financed) 11 Countries represented: Pl-2, Lt-2, Cz-2, Lv-2, Tr-3, H-9, Bg-1, Si-1, Sk-1, It-2 7 Instructors (financed by JRC): from Uk, Dk, Es, Nl, H (Including them, countries represented in the school:15) Number of JRC financed (students + instructors): 28 Participants for the field excursion (including JRC staff): 42 (local soil surveyors not included in the 42)

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