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Urban and Peri-urban

SPADES in Baia Mare: First Workshop - Launching the Diagnosis Phase

26 Aug 2025

The first SPADES workshop in the Baia Mare Metropolitan Area has just concluded, marking the beginning of the diagnosis phase for the pilot site. The eve...

Urban and Peri-urban

Soil and Hydrology in Romania

4 Aug 2025

Recently, Romania has been facing one of its most critical hydrological alerts. The National Institute of Hydrology and Water Management issued Code Red ...

SPADES needs you!

4 Aug 2025

SPADES is developing a navigator which aims to provide tools, data, guidance and best practices to increase the uptake of soil in land planning. The main...

Aerial view of Grenoble and announcement that Grenoble won a prestigious award

Urban and Peri-urban

SPADES City Grenoble wins 2025 Local Sustainability Award with transformative redesign of school areas

1 Aug 2025

We are proud to announce that SPADES City Grenoble has been awarded the Local Sustainability Award this year!

July NetworkNature Reads: The Book of Hope

1 Aug 2025

This July, SPADES colleague Lucia Rua was featured in NetworkNature Reads!

What is NetworkNature Reads?

#NetworkNatureReads is inspired by #ReadingRainbow...

A small seed planted in the soil beginning to sprout and grow roots (drawing)

Planning never finishes, soil is a continuum

31 Jul 2025

Making European planning more soil-inclusive through the SPADES project

The Spatial Planning and Design with Soil (SPADES) project is working to make plan...

Soil Functions and Related Ecosystem Services for sustainable cities - takeaways from the webinar

2 Jul 2025

The Institute for Urban Excellence (iUE) organized an internationalwebinar on Soil for Sustainable Cities on June 25th 2025 as part of its broader missi...

A field at the pilot site with buildings in the background

Rural and Peri-urban

Exploring collectively the Future of Farming on Wasteland Plots in the Pays Cœur d'Hérault

2 Jun 2025

Could two unused plots of land become home to new agricultural activity? That was the question guiding a recent field day that brought together a diverse...

Over 1 million species are at risk of extinction. Join us and the UN in calling for increased harmony with nature and sustainable development - from the ground up.

Cities Step Up to Save Soil — Earth’s Most Biodiverse Ecosystem

20 May 2025

Biodiversity is fundamental to human and environmental well-being, yet we are losing it at an unprecedented rate: between 1970 and 2020, the average size...