Project: Stocktaking for Agricultural Soil Quality and Ecosystem Services Indicators and their Reference Values

Acronym SIREN
Duration 01/02/2021 - 28/02/2022
Project Topic The SIREN project will make an inventory of indicator systems for assessing soil quality and ecosystem services, as currently used by Member States associated in the EJP SOIL and beyond. SIREN will identify and review the national frameworks and chains from soil properties via soil functions to soil ecosystem services and the indicators of soil quality state and functions plus their reference values across pedo-climatic conditions for the main agricultural production systems in the EU. Also, SIREN will identify if these have been translated into policy options and implementation, and into directions and guidance on land management. SIREN will particularly stocktake the array of reference values for SOC, soil quality, soil biodiversity and degradation risk, the associated target values of indicators, and identify knowledge gaps and development needs.
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Network EJP SOIL
Call 1st EJP SOIL internal Call for proposals

Project partner

Number Name Role Country
1 Wageningen University & Research Coordinator Netherlands
2 National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment Partner France
3 Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences Partner France
4 Environment Agency Austria Partner Austria
5 Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Partner Belgium
6 Walloon Agricultural Research Center Partner Belgium
7 Czech University of Life Sciences Partner Czech Republic
8 Aarhus University Partner Denmark
9 Estonian University of Life Sciences Partner Estonia
10 Natural Resources Institute Finland Partner Finland
11 Agriculture and Food Development Authority Partner Ireland
12 Council for Agricultural Research and Economics Partner Italy
13 University of Latvia Partner Latvia
14 Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry Partner Lithuania
15 Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research Partner Norway
16 Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute Partner Poland
17 National Institute for Agrarian and Veterinarian Research Partner Portugal
18 National Agricultural and Food Centre Partner Slovakia
19 University of Ljubljana Partner Slovenia
20 Agricultural Institute of Slovenia Partner Slovenia
21 National Institute for Agriculture and Food Research and Technology Partner Spain
22 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Partner Sweden
23 Agroscope Partner Switzerland
24 Agri-Food Biosciences Institute Partner United Kingdom