SMS developed a soil health ontology to ensure a common language on the topic throughout the EU Soil Mission. The ontology includes professional graphic material to promote and ease access to the topic area. Further, SMS performed an extensive stock taking of the state-of-the-art and existing knowledge on sustainable soil and land management and combined these results with a stakeholder inclusive needs analysis for applied sustainable soil and land management. Results were synthesized to a knowledge and R&I gap report that covers all land uses and soil functions. A wide range of actor groups, including an Advisory Board and the Commission Services, has been involved to ensure a stakeholder inclusive development process that covers of all relevant sectors and policy fields. Stocktaking included a mapping of relevant actors and projects, as well as the development of criteria for soil related living labs and lighthouses and mapping of potential candidates all over Europe. SMS results were merged into a stakeholder co-developed action roadmap for R&I on sustainable soil and land management was developed to support the mission implementation.
An SMS knowledge platform was launched, including (i) a general explanation, (ii) The SMS R&I Roadmap, (iii) an interactive map of potential living labs and light houses, (iv) products from living labs and lighthouses, and (v) a short movie on Living Labs and Lighthouses. The knowledge platform shall be transferred to the JRC soil platform (EUSO) and continued after the end of the project.
A final conference was held to promote the project results and hand over to follow-up projects. Further, SMS results were disseminated through numerous presentations at conferences, workshops and surveys, as well as the SMS platform itself.
