World Soil Day SONDAR +: International soil experts develop SOIL MAP for the Danube region

On December 3, soil experts from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria met on the occasion of the World Soil Day to work on the development of a common soil map for the Danube region.
The project SONDAR +, which is funded by the "START - Danube Region Project Fund of the European Union Strategy for the Danube Region", will work on data harmonization and definition of scales and data formats in addition to numerous other activities. In the next step, the map will be implemented for the entire Danube region.
Peter Strauss as representative of the Initiative Land creates water introduced the results of the current project "SOIL MAP - Soil Information for Lower Austrian Districts". The results of this project are very useful for the development of the Danube map and have attracted a lot of interest from international guests.
Erwin Szlezak from the Lower Austrian Agricultural District Authority presented the agendas of the working group of the Danube countries as well as the agricultural district authority and guided the guests in the Lower Austrian State Museum through the Outdoor Soil Exhibition.
Bernhard Kuderer from the association BIENE illustrated the goals of the project SONDAR +. As with successful projects in the past, one of SONDAR + 's main focuses is to make scientific findings available to a wider population. According to the SCIENCE-ALLIANCE-AWARENESS approach, we are working with different target groups - from local stakeholders, through science, students and students - to raise awareness of the importance of our soil.
Thomas Dostal from the Technical University of Prague and Jarolava Sobocka from the Soil Protection Institute Bratislava presented their experiences and foundations from a national perspective for a cross-border soil map for the Danube region.
 

• Download: Presentation of AT - Soilmap and Sustainable Operations Network in the Daube Region (SONDAR)
• Download: Presentaiton of SK - Soilmaps and databases in SK
• Download: Presentation of CZ - Soilmaps available for CZ
• Download: Programm

Detailed information about the SONDAR projects can be found here: www.sondar.eu
 
 
Photos: © Verein BIENE