Advancing Europe's capacity to monitor, predict and manage soil salinization
SaliNova is a Horizon Europe project (HORIZON-MISS-2025-05-SOIL-11, GA 101294352) dedicated to developing new high-resolution data architectures, advanced simulation models, and decision-support toolkits designed to monitor, predict, and mitigate the accelerating risks of soil salinization across Europe.
The project brings together foundational science and tech, combining Earth observation, field validation data, hyperspectral sensing, and climate modelling with physics-informed AI frameworks. This robust approach helps translate fragmented soil datasets into practical, actionable intelligence for agricultural operators, land managers, and regional policymakers.
Led by an expert pan-European partnership (including the Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics at Hamburg University of Technology and the United Nations University Hub) SaliNova focuses on key deliverables such as interactive Stakeholder Decision Support Tools (DST), Pan-European 3D+T Salinity Maps, and strategic policy resources to build long-term soil resilience.
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Blockchain solutions for monitoring the multifunctionality of European forests
The GRoot project is funded by the European Forest Institute (EFI) under the MoniFun project coordinated by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke).
GRoot envisions the development of a digital twin-like ecosystem designed to monitor and manage European forests, integrating geospatial data with immutable records via blockchain technology.
The ecosystem will leverage existing technologies from the partners, allowing authorized stakeholders to input and access forest data securely, adopting standards applied by the European Green Deal Data Space, and ensuring data integrity and traceability for forest resources, biodiversity, soil health, and ecosystem services.
Built using Hyperledger Fabric as the permissioned blockchain framework, supporting transparent and privacy-preserving data sharing among researchers, forest managers, policymakers, and the public.
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