Description du projet
Redonner vie aux sols européens en péril
Près de 70 % des sols de l’Europe sont actuellement en mauvais état. Une gestion efficace de cette crise est cruciale, en particulier dans le contexte du Pacte pour des sols sains en Europe, dont l’objectif est d’assainir ou de considérablement améliorer la qualité de 75 % des sols de l’UE d’ici à 2030. Dans cette optique, le projet SoilWise, financé par l’UE, se propose de regrouper les données et les connaissances disparates et hétérogènes sur les sols en Europe, afin de soutenir une prise de décision éclairée et la loi sur la santé des sols. Le projet entend rendre ces ressources FAIR (faciles à trouver, accessibles, interopérables et réutilisables) et encourager la confiance et la volonté de partager et de réutiliser ces précieuses informations. Par le biais d’efforts de collaboration entre les parties prenantes, SoilWise a l’intention de rationaliser les flux de travail et les référentiels existants, en améliorant leur accessibilité et leur interconnexion.
Objectif
More than ever, soil health is an issue, as recent assessments state that 60-70% of European soils can be considered unhealthy. The Soil Deal for Europe aims to have 75% of EU soils healthy or significantly improved by 2030. Reaching such an ambition requires, among others, access to reliable, harmonised existing and new data and knowledge collected at local, national and EU levels to allow informed decision-making at all scales to support the Soil Health Law and the EU Soil Strategy.
SoilWise will provide an integrated and actionable access point to scattered and heterogeneous soil data and knowledge in Europe, making them FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) and improve trust, willingness, and ability to share and re-use soil data and knowledge. In three project development cycles, co-creation and co-validation by multi-stakeholder groups are the centre of project activities. SoilWise recognises existing workflows and repositories for specific user needs and aims to work with them to enhance their discoverability, approachability and interconnection. An open, modular, scalable and extensible knowledge and data repository building on existing and new technologies will be provided while respecting data ownership, access policies and privacy. AI- and ML- techniques will be employed to interlink scattered data and knowledge, automatise the processes, infer new knowledge and increase FAIRness. SoilWise applies infrastructure thinking instead of project thinking to design a repository for at least a decade to support EUSO evolvement accordingly.
The SoilWise repository and community are designed to be a joint starting point and common ground for countries, the European Commission and other stakeholders to jointly guide soil and related spatial policy and informed decision-making towards the 2030 goals of the Green Deal, achieve healthy soils in 2050 and ensure broad uptake and implementation by land managers, policy, research and industry.
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