Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABPMid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence Project: LIFE08 ENV IT SOILPRO MONITORING FOR SOIL PROTECTION LOCALIZATION: Sicilia e Peloponneso BUDGET: Total cost : 1,450, Co-financing UE: 49,83% PARTECIPANTS: Coordinator beneficiary: CRA-ABP Associated: NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS; REGION OF PELOPONNESOS; REGIONE SICILIANA DURATION: start: 01/01/10 - end: 31/12/13

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABP BACKGROUND Soil is a non-renewable natural resource It performs crucial ecological, social and economic functions for human activities and ecosystems survival Soils are being increasingly degraded or irreversibly lost across the EU Estimated costs of soil degradation reach up to €38/$50 billions per year, but damage to soil ecological functions is excluded Costs of soil degradation are mainly borne by society at large and not by the land user Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABP Soil degradation processes Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABPMid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABPMid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABPMid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABP Main Policy Areas 6th Environmental Action Program (EU Soil Thematic Strategy) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Climate Change Policy (Post-Kyoto debate, LULUCF) Energy Policy (Renewable Energies Directive) Biodiversity (Nature) Protection Policy (EU Biodiversity Strategy) Water Protection Policy (WFD, Groundwater Directive) Forest Protection Policy (Forest FOCUS, ICP Forest) Regional Policies (INTERREG) Food Safety (PPR Registration, EFSA) Food Security (FAO) Development Policy (ACP-Observatory) Waste Policy (Biowaste Directive, Sewage Sludge Directive) …etc Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABPMid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABP Impact Assessment at European Commission Standardised procedure, mandatory for all policies Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABP Resource Efficiency Roadmap COM( , ) By 2020, water abstraction stays, as a rule, below 20% of available renewable water resources. Maintain and enhance ecosystems and their services by establishing green infrastructure and restoring at least 15% of degraded ecosystems. Annual land take (i.e. the increase of artificial land) does not exceed 800 km² per year at the EU level. The area of land in the EU that is subject to soil erosion of more than 10 tonnes per hectare per year should be reduced by at least 25%. Soil organic matter levels do not decrease overall and increase for soils currently with less than 3.5% organic matter. Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABPMid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence OBJECTIVES The SOILPRO project has the overall objective of halting soil degradation in line with the Thematic Strategy for Soil Protection. It will develop a web-based application tool (Soil Monitoring Software, SMS) that can support local and regional authorities and Member States in their efforts to identify and assess areas at risk, as well as to monitor the effectiveness of soil protection measures

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABP MAIN DELIVERABLES, ACTIONS AND RESPONSABLES Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence - Coordination, Web site creation and feedingAction 1CRA and ALL -Web-based application tool (Soil Monitoring Software, SMS) -Risk areas identification and assessment for 6 soil threats (Water erosion, Organic matter decline, Compaction, Salinization, Landslides, Acidification) in the two regions -Scenario analysis (actual and potential dynamic of degraded natural and agricultural ecosystems) Actions 2 and 7 EKPA, CRA (Sicily, Peloponnesus ) -Regional plans of soil protection measures (elaboration and implementation) Action 6Sicily, Peloponnesus (CRA, EKPA) Proximal and remote monitoring of the effectiveness of the soil protection measures Action 3ALL

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABP OTHERS IMPORTANT DELIVERABLES, ACTIONS AND RESPONSABLES Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence - Thematic databases of Sicily and PeloponnesusAction 3Sicily, CRA, EKPA - Training of personnel for the SMS (potential users) Actions 4 and 5 Sicily, Peloponnesus - Partecipation open days, green weeksActions 4ALL - Awareness-raising campaign about soil conservation and CC (conferences, questionnaires, hand-books,....) Actions 4 and 8 Sicily, Peloponnesus (CRA, EKPA) - Dissemination (video, newsletters, Project Leaflets, notice boards, guidelines, e-learning…. Actions 5 and 8 Sicily, Peloponnesus (CRA, EKPA) -Technical reports (annual and final)Action 8EKPA, CRA

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABP Activities, financial and administrative reports have at least 6 months of delay We must set the next plan of activities and budget expenditures so to reach the 150% threshold to get the second instalment We must decide whether to ask for an extension of the project State of the art Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABP Critical issues SOILPRO is much articulated and complex: many actions and many deliverables. There are few single responsibilities, but many shared responsibilities for a single action There is the need for every partner to find one dedicated and reference person (in addition to the partner leader) to follow the actions and act as contact point for the other partners There is also the need for every partner to find a reference person for the administrative issues Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABPMid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABPMid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABPMid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABP Soil Monitoring Software Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence

Edoardo Costantini, project manager CRA-ABP Sicily Other sources Peloponnesus New field data Pre-processing Spatial modelling (geostatistic) Models for: Risk Areas Identification Scenarios Monitoring SMS SOILPRO databases Maps Web site Web GIS Mid-term Meeting, 16 May 2012, Florence