2024 – 2028

Part of our RESEARCH Pillar

SPADES (Spatial Planning and DEsign with Soil) is an EU-funded Horizon project that aims to to develop, test and implement soil-inclusive spatial planning strategies to support the transition towards soil health in Europe.

The project will develop integrative instruments and improve the information basis and brokerage to bring the spatial planning and design field and soil sector together. This will contribute to the methodological basis. SPADES will work in 17 pilots in ten European member states, covering a broad range of land uses (urban, peri-urban and rural areas), time and spatial scales, and soil and planning challenges. This will be done together with local practitioners and policy makers to develop fit-for-purpose soil-inclusive spatial strategies to support different goals such as land degradation neutrality and no net land take.

Find the official project data overview here.