Descrizione del progetto
Far rivivere i terreni europei in difficoltà
In Europa si stima che fino al 70% dei suoli si trovi attualmente in uno stato malsano. Trovare una soluzione a questo problema è fondamentale, soprattutto alla luce del patto europeo per i suoli, che punta all’obiettivo di rendere il 75% dei terreni dell’UE sani o significativamente migliorati entro il 2030. In quest’ottica, il progetto SoilWise, finanziato dall’UE, si propone di rendere accessibili i dati e le conoscenze sul suolo in Europa, che sono dispersi ed eterogenei, per sostenere un processo decisionale informato e favorire l’applicazione della legge sulla salute del suolo. L’obiettivo del progetto è rendere queste risorse FAIR (acronimo di Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable, ovvero reperibili, accessibili, interoperabili e riutilizzabili) e promuovere la fiducia e la volontà di condividere e riutilizzare tali preziose informazioni. Attraverso attività di collaborazione con le parti interessate, SoilWise intende ottimizzare i flussi di lavoro e gli archivi esistenti, migliorandone la scopribilità e l’interconnessione.
Obiettivo
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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