Join us June 4th at Soils@WUR2026!
This event is organised by people from Environmental sciences, Plant sciences, Social sciences and Animal sciences, with the aim to connect researchers working on soils across Wageningen University & Research.

Let's make Soil Connections together!

Program

Morning
   
08:30    Registration
  09:00    Opening and welcome
  09:30    Keynotes  Soil carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation: Productive disagreement?

  10:45    Coffee
  11:15    Break out sessions 1 - 
               A: Plural value creation for healthy soils through landscape approaches
               B: WUR perspectives on soil carbon sequestration for climate change mitigation
               C: Soil-human interactions 
               D: Contaminant cocktails
Lunch     
  12:30    Group photo
  12:40    Lunch
   

Afternoon
  
13:45    Break out sessions 

               E: Peat soils in transition
               F: Fertilisers: good, bad, or it depends?
               G: Interoperable soil data
               H: Is soil life too complicated? Connecting perspectives across disciplines


  15:00    Coffee    
  15:30    Plenary closure with interactive reflections on the day
  16:30    Drinks
  18:00    End

Please share a recent insight, finding or experience related to soil or making connections. We will share these by name or anonymously on location via posters or screens.

As conversation starter, we will have stickers to display personal or professional hobbies. This field is not obligatory.

Lunch, coffee and tea
The lunch is vegan, we provide cowmilk for coffee and lunch. You can indicate additional dietary requirements in the field below.

Location
Omnia – Wageningen Campus building 105
Hoge Steeg 2
6708 PH Wageningen
The Netherlands
Phone +31 317 484 50
Route