Transnational online workshop «SAVING:SOILS»

Healthy soils provide food, ensure biodiversity, offer recreational spaces and mitigate the consequences of the climate crisis. Nevertheless, areas and soils are being concreted over and sealed on a daily basis throughout Europe, especially around cities. New settlements, roads, industrial or commercial areas are constantly being built in these peri-urban areas. In addition, wind, water, biomass and solar plants have to be built for the energy transition – meaning that conflicts of use are inevitable. With the project “Saving:Soils – for a trend reversal in the use of land in peri-urban areas”, CIPRA is making good examples visible and working out approaches to solutions along with three pilot regions. Saving:Soils brings everyone together around one table: spatial planning experts, civil society, administrative authorities and young adults.

The online workshop on 12 May has its focus on regional and (trans-)national soil-saving strategies in Alpine countries. We will discuss the following key questions:

What is the present state of implementation of soil-saving strategies in Germany, France, Switzerland and Austria?
What are the key factors for success, what are the main challenges and barriers?
Which instruments seem to be most promising for soil-saving in the near future?
What can we learn from each other?

The target groups of this workshop are:

Representatives from administration and politics at regional, national and transnational level
Experts from universities and consultants
Civil society organisations, NGO´s 2

Workshop programme

(1) Technical check in 16.15

(2) Introduction and background 16.30 Wolfgang Pfefferkorn, CIPRA International

(3) EU Mission Soil 16:40 Sandra Heinzelmann, European Commission

(4) Inputs on soil saving strategies in Germany, France, Austria and Switzerland 16.50 Germany: Florian Lintzmeyer, ifuplan France: Stephane Leveque, CEREMA Austria: Elisabeth Stix/Helmut Hiess, Rosinak&Partner Switzerland: N.N

(5) Discussion of key questions in the plenary or in breakout groups 17:30

(6) Summary, outlook and next steps 18:15 The end 18:30

We would be very pleased to welcome you to the online workshop on 12 May and ask you to register via the following link. We will send the zoom link for participation to all registered persons by e-mail the day before the workshop.

This workshop is being held as part of the project "Saving:Soils - for a trend reversal in the use of land in periurban areas". The project focuses on the Alpine countries and is funded by the German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection as part of the EURENI initiative. More on the project: www.cipra.org/saving-soils

Please note: On 19 May 2022 a second online workshop will take place. This workshop has its focus on practical local solutions and puts two key topics into the foreground:

How should high-quality densification look like?
How to approach unsealing in practice?

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