Section Chairs
Catia Bastioli, Novamont CEO & Member of EU Mission Board for Soil health and food.
Programme
10.00 Welcome by the section Chair
10.05 Undersecretary of State On. Roberto Morassut
10.15 The EU proposed mission: Caring for soil is caring for life
Cees Veerman, Chair of the Mission Board for Soil health and food (TBC)
10.35 Soil Health and Food: connections with the New Common Agricultural Policy and the bioeconomy
Tassos Haniotis DG AGRI Director
10.45 R&I accelerating the European Green Deal
Peter Wehrheim, Head of the Bioeconomy and Food Systems Unit – DG Research & Innovation – Directorate C – Healthy Planet
10.55 Healthy soils for a sustainable bioeconomy within the European Green Deal Giovanni de Santi Director for sustainable development of the JRC of the European Commission
11.05 The voice of agriculture
Sustainable agriculture and innovation in Italy
Coldiretti Representative (TBC)
Sustainable soil management in organic farming
Eduardo Cuoco, Director of IFOAM EU
11.25 Best practices in the soil protection and regeneration in EU
Grand Farm for research and demonstration
Alfred Grand, Farmer and Member of the Mission Board for Soil health and food
Soil4life: a European soil protection project
Damiano Di Simine, Responsabile tutela suolo Legambiente
Landsupport Project: Development of Integrated Web-Based Land Decision Support System
Fabio Terribile, Ph.D.(UK) Director of CRISP Research Centre, University of Napoli Federico II & CNR, President Commission Soil Morphology and Micromorphology – International Union of Soil Sciences
11.45 Round table
How create awareness, engage citizens and stakeholders for restoring soil health and soil functions.
Angelo Riccaboni, National Delegate in the Sub-board Healthy soil
Giuseppe Corti, President of Italian Pedology Society –SIPE
Catia Bastioli, Member of EU Mission Board for Soil health and food, Member of ReSoil Foundation
12.15 Conclusions