SPADES - Spatial Planning And DEsign with Soils

SPADES’ mission is to develop, test and implement soil-inclusive practices in spatial planning and design. This will be done by bringing the Soil Mission’s objectives of improving soil health, reducing global footprint, and improving soil literacy, together with spatial concepts, approaches and solutions. These include the performance (ecosystem services (ES)) of soil to create more healthy, resilient and soil-aware (and Nature-Based) societies in urban, peri-urban and rural areas of Europe. The consortium shares the belief that a healthy soil-sediment-water (SSW-)system is of utmost importance for Europe’s sustainable future and can only be achieved through innovative integration of spatial planning and design processes with soil care, which is at the core goal of the proposed project.