SPADES Project- Spatial Planning and Design with Soils
SPADES - Spatial Planning and Design with Soils
Type of action: HORIZON-RIA (Research and innovation actions under the HORIZON EUROPE Programme)
SPADES (Spatial Planning And DEsign with Soil) focuses on securing soils in spatial planning and developments, as part of the Mission A Soil Deal for Europe. Researchers are tackling this in seventeen locations in ten countries in Europe. SPADES will develop, test and implement soil-inclusive practices in spatial planning and design.
This will be done by bringing the eight Soil Mission’s objectives of improving soil health, reducing global footprint on soils and improving soil literacy, together with spatial concepts, approaches and solutions. These include the performance (ecosystem services) 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 will innovate by operationalising the integration of spatial planning and design processes with soil to contribute to a healthy Soil-Sediment-Water system, which is of utmost importance for Europe’s sustainable future.
The overall aim of SPADES is to support and restore the soil-sediment-water system (SSW system) and to include soil in spatial planning and development policies to contribute to a transition to healthier soils, which can provide ecosystem services (ES) in urban, peri-urban and rural areas.
The specific objective of the Association is to develop a territorial planning scenario that includes a plan of measures and recommendations regarding the use of degraded/polluted lands/soils owned by the Municipality of Baia Mare/the TAUs in the Functional Urban Area (including both the urban area and the peri-urban area).
SPADES is funded by the European Union (Grant Agreement No. 101146122). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor REA can be held responsible for them.