Facilitating implementation of EU soil legislation in Alpine municipalities, thus seizing transnational knowledge, mutual learning & concrete, cross-sectoral implementation on local level
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Alpine SpaceDescription
Sustainable soil management, climate resilience & climate change adaptation concepts for pilot actions in the different Alpine countries (EN)
Booklet for municipalities & policymakers: SSM Solutions, best-practice examples and case studies, stakeholder guidance, success criteria and how to overcome most the common obstacles (EN)
Capacity building toolbox & educational package for multipliers / training centers for further independent distribution of the project findings (EN)
Website: https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/soilourinvisibleally/
Thematic information
Priority: (VI-B_AS_1) Climate resilient and green Alpine region
Priority specific objective: RSO2.7. Enhancing protection and preservation of nature, biodiversity and green infrastructure, including in urban areas, and reducing all forms of pollution
Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO2 A greener, low-carbon transitioning towards a net zero carbon economy and resilient Europe by promoting clean and fair energy transition, green and blue investment, the circular economy, climate change mitigation and adaptation, risk prevention and management, and sustainable urban mobility
Type of intervention: 079 Nature and biodiversity protection, natural heritage and resources, green and blue infrastructure
Partners (12)
Lead Partner: Gozdarski inštitut Slovenije
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI37808052
Department: Forest Ecology Department
Address: Večna pot , 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Department address: Večna pot , 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://www.gozdis.si/en/
Total budget: EUR 321 150.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 240 862.50
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 80 287.50
- Parco delle Orobie Valtellinesi
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Name: Parco delle Orobie Valtellinesi
Department: n/a
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 833190143
Address: Via Moia, 23010 Albosaggia, Italy
Department address: Via Moia, 23010 Albosaggia, Italy
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.parcorobievalt.com
Total budget: EUR 252 400.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 189 300.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 63 100.00
- Zavod za gozdove Slovenije
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Name: Zavod za gozdove Slovenije
Department: Central Unit Ljubljana, Department for Forest Management Planning
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI 91496080
Address: Večna pot, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Department address: Večna pot, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: http://www.zgs.si
Total budget: EUR 154 750.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 116 062.50
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 38 687.50
- Öko-BeratungsGesellschaft mbH - Beratung für Naturland
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Name: Öko-BeratungsGesellschaft mbH - Beratung für Naturland
Department: n/a
Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE170408212
Address: Eichethof , 85411 Hohenkammer, Germany
Department address: Eichethof , 85411 Hohenkammer, Germany
Legal status: private
Organisation type: SME
Website: https://www.naturland.de/de/erzeuger/beratung.html
Total budget: EUR 98 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 73 500.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 24 500.00
- Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta
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Name: Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta
Department: Departement of programmation, water resources and territory
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 00368440079
Address: Via Promis, 11100 Aosta, Italy
Department address: Via Promis, 11100 Aosta, Italy
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: https://www.regione.vda.it/default_i.asp
Total budget: EUR 256 950.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 192 712.50
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 64 237.50
- Landratsamt Landsberg am Lech
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Name: Landratsamt Landsberg am Lech
Department: department SG30, climate protection
Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE 166 750 997
Address: Von-Kühlmann-Straße, 86899 Landsberg am Lech, Germany
Department address: Von-Kühlmann-Straße, 86899 Landsberg am Lech, Germany
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Local public authority
Website: https://www.landkreis-landsberg.de/landratsamt/
Total budget: EUR 254 400.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 190 800.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 63 600.00
- Università degli Studi di Torino
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Name: Università degli Studi di Torino
Department: Department of Agricultural, Forest and Food Science
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 2099550010
Address: Via Verdi, 10124 Torino, Italy
Department address: Via Verdi, 10124 Torino, Italy
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Total budget: EUR 223 600.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 167 700.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 55 900.00
- Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
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Name: Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Department: INRAE Grenoble regional centre, Laboratory Ecosystems and Society in Mountains Research Unit (LESSEM)
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SIRET : 180 070 039 025 87
Address: rue de la papeterie, 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères Cedex, France
Department address: rue de la papeterie, 38402 Saint Martin d'Hères Cedex, France
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://www.inrae.fr/en
Total budget: EUR 236 083.80
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 177 062.85
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 59 020.95
- Klimabündnis Tirol
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Name: Klimabündnis Tirol
Department: n/a
Partner’s ID if not PIC: N.a.
Address: Müllerstraße, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Department address: Müllerstraße, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: http://tirol.klimabuendnis.at/
Total budget: EUR 210 050.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 157 537.50
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 52 512.50
- Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung und Wohnen GmbH
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Name: Salzburger Institut für Raumordnung und Wohnen GmbH
Department: Regional Development and Spatial Planning
Partner’s ID if not PIC: ATU78254014
Address: Schillerstrasse, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Department address: Schillerstrasse, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Sectoral agency
Website: https://www.sir.at
Total budget: EUR 282 462.50
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 211 846.87
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 70 615.63
- Kmetijski inštitut Slovenije (KIS)
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Name: Kmetijski inštitut Slovenije (KIS)
Department: Department of Agricultural Ecology and Natural Resources (DAENR)
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI23887729
Address: Hacquetova ulica , 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Department address: Hacquetova ulica , 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.kis.si/OKENV
Total budget: EUR 232 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 174 000.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 58 000.00
- Stiftung Kunst und Natur gGmbH
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Name: Stiftung Kunst und Natur gGmbH
Department: n/a
Partner’s ID if not PIC: DE 288 620 942
Address: Karpfsee, 83670 Bad Heilbrunn, Germany
Department address: Karpfsee, 83670 Bad Heilbrunn, Germany
Legal status: private
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: https://kunst-und-natur.de/
Total budget: EUR 327 800.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 245 850.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 75.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 81 950.00
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Summary
Project acronym: SOIL:OurInvisibleAlly
Project ID: ASP0500310
Project start date: 2024-09-01
Project end date: 2027-08-31
Project status: ongoing
Relevant linked projects:
- Links4Soils (L4S) (EN) | L4S laid the foundation for an Alpine wide network of knowledge about soil through provision of general tools.. The consortium with strong PP in spat.planning & direct networks on implem. level will expand:
- - Local anchoring & boosting of implementation of AlpSP Network
- - Applicable SSM approaches at loc./reg. level incl .spat. planning
- - Expanding & upgrading http://Alpinesoils.eu (data, products), e.g. with SOILoutcomes
- - Soil culture & capacity-building (WP3)
- - Cooperation with AC-SWG(A32) (EN), LIFE Future Forest (FF) (EN) | LIFE Future Forest (2020-2023) focuses on the sustainability of forests & soils including the valorization of the achieved ecosystem services in the county of Landsberg am Lech (DE). SOIL will integrate the project area as pilot site showing & further elaborating the demonstration of sustainable forest management that builds on “living soils”. The handbook developed in Future Forest, giving orientation to municipalities replicating the approach, will further guide this process. (EN), Biodiv'Connect (EN) | The project acquires methodological & strategic tools, shared on a cross-border scale, to preserve & strengthen ecological continuity in the western Alps, in order to integrate the public policies & planning tools . The synergy will be used to underline the role of living soil in enhancing biodiversity & their tools integrated in the SOIL guidelines. (EN), OpenSpaceAlps (OSA) (EN) | OSA (2019-2022) created a platform for the exchange of knowledge & planners from different disciplines (AlpPlan network). The “Alpine Open Spaces Planning Handbook” gives strategic recommendations for open space protection. The results of OSA will serve as a basis for spatial planning & to the multisectoral approach of SOIL. A strong linkage between the AlpSP & the AlpPlan network will be forged during SOIL to better link land use sectors with spatial planning. (EN), GreenRisk4ALPs (GR4A) (EN) | GR4A facilitates risk-based protective forest management as ecosystem-based natural hazard risk management in the Alps. Its main outputs will be implemented for providing protective forest territorial diagnosis within SOIL. FLOW-PY model & economical evaluation tool will be applied for protective forest diagnoses in project´s pilot areas. Protective forests management guidelines will be used as a basis for providing elements to build integrated & adaptive management of soils ecosystems services. (EN), Impuls4Action (I4A) (EN) | The ARPAF financed project I4A initiated measures to support sustainable development by providing appropriate instruments, raising awareness & finding new models for sustainable soil protection in the Alps on the topics water management, inner development & peatlands. The integrative activities & tailor-made instruments for soil protection will be used for improved actions in pilot sites towards CCA. (EN), Horizon Soil Mission Support (SMS) (EN) | SMS (2020-2022) is producing an EU research & innovation roadmap for sustainable soil & land management to support the objectives of the Horizon Europe Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe” (EU Green Deal). The project also focuses on the analysis of needs & gaps to identify living labs for demonstration & engaging stakeholders from various fields. The project's aim goes hand in hand with SOIL.
- This synergy will be used to further elaborate transnational strategies for local implementation. (EN), Horizon EU-H2020 Land Support (EN) | Land Support (2018-2022) developed a web-based completely free, open-access GeoSpatial Decision Support System (S-DSS) devoted to:
- - support sustainable agriculture & forestry;
- - evaluate trade-off between land uses;
- - contribute to the development & implementation of land use policies in Europe. (EN)
Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 849 646.30
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 137 234.72
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 75.00%
Co-financing sources:
- ERDF: Amount, EUR 2 137 234.72. Co-financing rate, 75.00%.
Investments, deliverables, policy contributions
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Deliverables:
- Concept for multiplication for transferability & scalability supporting long term action plan of AC
- Information package for multipliers incl. fact sheet, policy & communication recommendations
- Integrated Rural Development Concept including SSM, PP: SIR; KB
- Short insight-report on study visits for PP & external multipliers, encompassing art/culture; all PP
- Case study analysis report including lessons learned; all PP
- SSM business cases (BC) for land, forest owners & decision makers for spatial planning; all PP
- Soil management decision tree combining learning from WP 1 & 2; all PP
- Summary of findings (final publication (ENGL+nat.lang)& publication on websites of relevant networks
- Train the trainer elements from workshops for multiplicators & urban planners on SSM
Contribution to wider strategies and policies:
- EUStrategyAlpineRegion SOIL results contribute to the specific objective of EUSALP AG6 & are linked to AG 2/7/8. The workplan & feedback of AC-SWG, AG6 & 7 is integrated in the AF & active exchange will take place during the project, e.g. via discussion rounds, joint activities with AC-SWG new mandate (A32). Their networks will act as multipliers for the SOIL outputs even beyond the project. Permanent Secretariat of the Alpine Convention, AG6: Active Observer of SOIL
- EuropeanGreenDeal SOIL contributes significantly to the GD, as the GD aggregates all sectors, governance levels, & sources of investments into defined goals for a climate adaptive & resource-sensitive continent. It is exactly this cross-sectoral approach that is consequently pushed for SSM. SOIL clearly operationalises the new soil strategy - as a key-deliverable of the Deal - for restored, resilient, & adequately protected soils by 2050 by implementation & capacity building.
- TerritorialAgenda2030 It relates to soil from many different thematic, CCA-related perspectives targeted by SOIL, e.g:(54)Ecosystems are fundamental to human existence & nature-based solutions needed to preserve their functions (37)Ecosystem quality: availability of high quality soil in all places in order to avoid social inequalities (57)SSM as part of the economic approach to circularity (7)Importance of strateg. spat. planning & calls for strengthening the territor. dimension of sector policies at all gov. levels
- Other EU Soil monitoring and resilience directive:
- The EU is proposing a new EU directive to protect & restore soils & ensure that they are used sustainably. Furthermore, this upcoming legislation especially targets the restoring/maintenance of sufficient organic matter to keep soils “alive”. SOIL is anchoring the importance of healthy, living soils via its 3 WPs, thus directly supporting the directive. When published, concrete actions will be included into the workplan.
- Other AC Soil Protection Working Group:
- Close cooperation: SOIL-PP is FR representative in the AC-SPWG. Other PP have contributed to the AC-SPWG Long Term Action Plan. SOIL will implement AC-SWG specific measures & feed its results directly into the work of the AC through physical/virtual sessions, written contributions & country specific advice. SWG will actively participate in SOIL: close exchange of information, participation of SWG representatives in SOIL calls. Joint A23, meetings & events.
- Other AC Climate Action Plan 2.0:
- AC decided on the Climate Action Plan & in this document, soil is referred to as“Alpine soils face multiple challenges from CC & require a common framework for preserving soil quality & quantity.” This exactly matches the approach of SOIL. For the Alpine convention, SOIL will be able to deliver a common framework for SSM in the territories considering spatial planning as cross-cutting point for other sectoral activities.
- Other EU Soil Strategy for 2030 title “Reaping the benefits of healthy soils for people, food, nature & climate”: SOIL very well contributes to the various objectives of the strategy (limiting soil threats/degradation: sealing, erosion, carbon depletion, biodiversity loss) by replicable implementation. Apart from that, the strategy clearly defines healthy soil. SOIL goes one step further & defines “living soil”. SOIL will deliver substantial progress for the implem. of the Strategy in the Alps.
- Other The European Soil Partnership (ESP) (with national SP) is a collaborative initiative grouping multiple natl. & intl. institutions & stakeholders addressing soil-related challenges. SOIL will contribute to its aims by fostering SSM, the AlpSP, and its network. A periodic contact with the ESP is planned to improve the mutual exchange of information, harmonise SOIL activities and disseminate the results via the ESP / FAO websites and the annual ESP Plenary meeting.
- Other The EU Mission Soil targets enhancing soil health in Europe through SSM, combating soil & land degradation, and preserving biodiversity. It seeks to raise awareness, innovate & foster collaboration among stakeholders to safeguard soil. It welcomes SOIL & active exchange as it contributing to its aims within the mission's framework. SOIL outcomes will be integrated in the mission's knowledge hub and some of SOIL's case studies possibly embedded into its map of living labs & lighthouses (Prepsoil)
Programme Common Output Indicator:
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RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
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RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
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RCO 121 - Area covered by protection measures against climate related natural disasters (other than floods and wildfire), Measurement unit:
Programme Common Result Indicator:
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RCR 098 - SMEs staff completing training for skills for smart specialisation, for industrial transition and entrepreneurship (by type of skill: technical, management, entrepreneurship, green, other), Measurement unit:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSALP
EUSALP Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:
EUSALP Degree of compliance:
Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project
Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B Alpine Space
Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme
2025-04-23
No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)
46 / 46 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
459 / 459 (100%)
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