Events

Please find here a non exhaustive list of international conferences and workshops on soil and contaminated land related issues worldwide.

2025

SOILveR webinar series ‘Concept of Technosol’

November 7, 2025 - online (9:30 - 11:30)

RemTech Europe

September 15-19, 2025 - online and Ferrara, Italy / hybrid

SOILveR webinar series ‘Contaminated sites’

September 12, 2025 - online (9:30 - 11:30)

VII EUROSOIL 2025

September 8-12, 2025 - Sevilla, Spain

SOILveR webinar series ‘Recycling Brownfields’

April 4, 2025 - online (9:30 - 11:30)

Intersol’2025 – Soil pollution: can we live with it? Towards an integrated strategy!

March 25-27, 2025 – Lyon, France

4th International Conference on PFAS - Management of Environmental & Health Risks

February 4, 2025 – Milano, Italy

SOILveR webinar series ‘Soil Management and Land Planning’

January 24, 2025 - online (9:30 - 11:30)

2024

SOILveR Coffee break meeting ‘EXPOSE? project’

December 6, 2024 - online (11:45-12:30)

Intersoil'2024 - Soil health: is it serious, doctor?

December 5-6, 2024 - Brussels, Belgium

World Soil Day 2024 – Caring for soils: measure, monitor, manage. 

December 5, 2024

SOILveR Coffee Break Meeting ‘Soil Monitoring, Ecological Risk Assessment and Ecosystem services evaluation under EU funded EDAPHOS project’

November 29, 2024 - online (11:30-12:15)

ICWS 2024 - 18th International Conference on Wetland Systems for Water Pollution Control

November 24-29, 2024 – Martinique

NICOLE Fall Workshop 2024 - Successful Legacy Site Revitalization: Governance, Risk Mitigation, and Circular Solutions

November 20-22, 2024 – Bilbao, Spain

European Mission Soil Week 2024

November 12-13, 2024 - Brussels, Belgium

SOILveR Webinar series ‘Integration of Soil Health in decision-making processes at various scales’

November 5, 2024 - online (14:00-16:15)

NICOLA Conference - Knowledge based solutions and international drivers

October 30-31, 2024 - Durban, South Africa

New Zealand Land and Groundwater Conference - Emerging Frontiers: Navigating Risk, Innovation and Sustainability

October 22-24, 2024 - Auckland, New Zealand

4th EUSO Stakeholders Forum

October 21-23, 2024 - online

15th ICCL Meeting 2024

October 17-18, 2024 - Bern, Switzerland

COMMON FORUM autumn meeting 2024

October 16, 2024 - Bern, Switzerland

RemTEC & Emerging Contaminants Summit

October 15-17, 2024 - Westminster/Denver, Colorado, USA

2nd Young Soil Researchers Forum within the 4th EUSO Stakeholders Forum

October 14-15, 2024 - online

INSOP Workshop on Threshold Values for Soil Contaminants

October 3, 2024 - online (12-14 CEST)

RE:BROWN Conference – Remediation and brownfield investments

October 2, 2024 - Budapest, Hungary

Global Symposium on Soil Information and Data

September 25-28, 2024 – Nanjing, China and hybrid

REMTECH EUROPE 2024

September 16-20, 2024 – Ferrara, Italy and hybrid

International CleanUp Conference 2024 – Innovation in Action: Leading the Cleanup Revolution

September 15-19, 2024 – Adelaide, Australia

NORDROCS 2024

September 9-12, 2024 - Uppsala, Sweden

PFAS Management Strategies in the United States, European Union and Australia

August 26, 2024 - webinar (14-16 GMT)

4th TERRAenVISION Conference

July 8-11, 2024 – Valencia, Spain

PFAS 2024 - Management of Environmental & Health Risks

June 4-6, 2024 – Paris, France

SedNet Working Groups Workshop and Meeting (CE & Sediment Quality)

June 4-5, 2024 - Hamburg, Germany

Centennial Celebration and Congress of the International Union of Soil Sciences

May 19-21, 2024 – Florence, Italy

ALGA Perth Regional Contaminated Land and Groundwater Conference

May 16-17, 2024 – Perth, Australia

LIFE Platform Meeting on Soils

April 10-11, 2024 - Pamplona, Spain

Intersol’2024 – Soil Health: Inventory and Prospects

March 26-28, 2024 – Paris, France

ENSOr 2024 - International workshop on challenges for diffuse soil pollution with emerging contaminants

March 14-15, 2024 – Brussels, Belgium

NICOLE & COMMON FORUM Joint Workshop on EU soil policy development

March 13, 2024 – Brussels, Belgium

COMMON FORUM spring meeting 2024

March 11-12, 2024 – Brussels, Belgium

Belgian Regional Administrations and COMMON FORUM joint event on Soil Management initiatives

March 11, 2024 – Brussels, Belgium

ESA Symposium on Earth observation for soil protection and restoration

March 6-7, 2024 – Frascati, Italy

NATI00NS event: Soil decontamination

February 15, 2024 – virtual

Tackling PFAS pollution: a pro-active and systemic approach & Knowledge Center Launch: Innovative Remediation Techniques

February 1-2, 2024 – Antwerp, Belgium

2023

NATI00NS event: Breaking ground together: Solutions for urban and post-industrial soil de-sealing

December 14, 2023 – online

World Soil Day 2023 – Soil and Water: a source of life

December 5, 2023

European Mission Soil Week - Leading the transition towards healthy soils

November 21-23, 2023 - Madrid, Spain

7th meeting of the Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN)

November 21-23, 2023 – virtual/hybrid

3rd EUSO Stakeholders Forum & Working groups meetings

November 15-17, 2023 - online

NICOLE Fall Workshop 2023 - Innovative solutions for sustainable redevelopment and land stewardship of contaminated sites and sediments

October 24-25, 2023 – Malmö, Sweden

5th meeting of the European and Eurasian Soil Laboratory Network (EUROSOLAN)

October 18-19, 2023 – virtual/hybrid

8th International Sustainable Remediation Conference - SustRem 2023

October 10-13, 2023 – Melbourne, Australia

SOILUZIOAK 2023 - International Soil Protection Congress, Basque Country

October 10-11, 2023 – Bilbao, Spain

COMMON FORUM autumn meeting 2023

October 9, 2023 – Bilbao, Spain

REMTECH EUROPE 2023

September 18-22, 2023 – Ferrara, Italy and hybrid

AquaConSoil 2023

September 11-15, 2023 – Prague, Czech Republic

SedNet Conference 2023

September 6-8, 2023 – Lisbon, Portugal

5th Wageningen Soil Conference 2023

August 28 – September 1, 2023 – Wageningen, The Netherlands

NATI00NS Capacity Building Webinar Series: 3. Core Elements and Specificities of the Living Lab topics

July 6, 2023; 10.00 - 11.30 (Zoom)

NATI00NS Capacity Building Webinar Series: 2. Governance and Business Models for setting up a Living Lab

June 29, 2023; 10.00 - 11.30 (Zoom)

SOILveR Coffee break meeting - Ecological Index of Concern (EIoC) supporting ecological soil function restoration

June 22, 2023; 11.30 - 12.15 (Zoom)

NATI00NS Capacity Building Webinar Series: 1. The Living Lab essentials – how to set up a Living Lab

June 22, 2023; 10.00 - 11.30 (Zoom)

2nd International Congress on PFAS - Management of Environmental & Health Risks

June 13-14, 2023 – Paris, France

COMMON FORUM spring meeting 2023

May 31-June 2, 2023 – Stockholm, Sweden

NICOLE 2023 Workshop - State of the art of site characterization for sustainable land management

May 10-12, 2023 – Paris, France

Intersoil’2023 – Soil: a springboard for the transition of territories

March 28-30, 2023 – Lille, France

3rd Global Soil Biodiversity Conference

March 13-15, 2023 - Dublin, Ireland

14th International HCH & Pesticides Forum

February 21-24, 2023 – Zaragoza, Spain

Excavation, Construction & Demolition Waste Management in the new circular Economy Era – ENYDRON workshop

February 8, 2023 - Online

Soil Mapping for a Sustainable Future - 2nd joint Workshop of the IUSS Working Groups Digital Soil Mapping and Global Soil Map

February 7-9, 2023 – Orléans. France

2022

INSOP-GLOSOLAN joint meeting

December 20, 2022 - online

Webinar on mercury contaminated sites (focus on Latin America)

December 14, 2022 - Online

UN-Water Summit on Groundwater 2022

December 6-8, 2022 – UNESCO HQ in Paris, France

World Soil Day 2022 – Soils: where food begins

December 5, 2022

Soil Sustainability in Luxembourg

December 2, 2022 - Online

NICOLE & COMMON FORUM Joint Workshop - Applying circularity principles in contaminated land management within the context of the new EU soil strategy

November 24-25, 2022 – Athens, Greece

COMMON FORUM Autumn Meeting 2022

November 23, 2022 – Athens, Greece

6th Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN) meeting

November 22-24, 2022 - Online

IMPEL - Water & Land Remediation Conference

November 15-16, 2022 – Bucharest, Romania + virtual meeting
(link for November 15November 16)

International Network of Soil Pollution (INSOP) - Launch of the Assessment Working Group

November 8, 2022 – virtual

2nd EU Soil Observatory Stakeholders Forum

October 24-26, 2022 – virtual

PFAS, more than a technical matter - Workshop on Emerging policy challenges on New SOil contaminants ENSOr v4

October 20-21, 2022 – online morning sessions

International Soil Law and Governance Conference

October 20, 2022 – Vienna, Austria (hybrid)

PFAS 2022 - Management of Environmental & Health Risks

October 20, 2022 – Paris, France (hybrid)

Microplastics in soils – a threat for human health and the environment?

October 19-20, 2022 – Berlin, Germany

International Conference Contaminated Sites 2022

October 12-14, 2022 – Trnava, Slovak Republic

Intersoil’2022 – What Strategy for European Soils in 2030?

October 5-6, 2022 – Brussels, Belgium

RemTEC & Emerging Contaminants Summit

October 4-6, 2022 – Westminster/Denver, CO, USA

A Soil Deal for Europe – European R&I Conference

September 27, 2022 – Brussels, Belgium

REMTECH EXPO 2022

September 21-23, 2022

2nd Global CleanUp Congress 2022

September 20-21, 2022 – Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

International CleanUp Conference 2022 – Environmental Pollution: the Hidden Pandemic

September 11-15, 2022 – Adelaide, Australia

NORDROCS 2022 Nordic Meeting on Remediation of Contaminated Sites

September 5-8, 2022 – Olso, Norway

15th International Conference on the Environmental Effects of Nanoparticles and Nanomaterials

August 24-26, 2022 – Montréal, Canada

TERRAenVISION 2022: nature-based solutions to facilitate the transitions for living within the planetary boundaries

June 27 – July 1, 2022 – Utrecht, The Netherlands

geoENV2022 – 14th International Conference on Geostatistics for Environmental Application

June 22-24, 2022 – Parma, Italy

Intersol 2022 – The Soil in all its States

June 21-23, 2022 - Lyon, France

SOILveR 'knowledge road' towards the EU Soil Strategy & Law: Sustainable land use, beyond agriculture and forestry

Registration
June 10, 2022 – online workshop

Living Planet Symposium 2022

May 23-27, 2022 – Bonn, Germany

EU Missions Info Days Including “A Soil Deal for Europe Mission”

May 18, 2022 – online

NICOLE Spring Workshop 2022

May 3-5, 2022 – Brussels, Belgium

Final LANDSUPPORT Conference & “Save Our Soils” Workshop

April 27 - 28, 2022 – Naples, Italy

Launch of the International Network on Soil Pollution (INSOP)

April 22, 2022 – FAO-GSP Webinar

SOILveR 'knowledge road' towards the EU Soil Strategy & Law: Soil monitoring schemes in several European countries

April 12, 2022 – online Workshop

Restriction of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in firefighting foams

April 5, 2022 – ECHA webinar

PFAS Global 2022

March 24, 2022 – virtual Conference

Sustainable Remediation Forum SustREM 2022: Creating a Healthier, More Resilient World through Sustainable Practices

March 14-17, 2022 – virtual

Final Meeting SOILveR Pilot Call

March 8, 2022 – online

Soil Mission Support Validation Workshops on R&I Gaps

March 7-8, 2022 – online

Fit for 2050? Strategies for Achieving the EU’s ‘No Net Land Take’ Goal

February 4, 2022 – virtual

EU Conference on Sustainable Carbon Cycles

January 31, 2022 – virtual