Project
SOILPROM: Modelling pollutant transport across the soil-water-atmosphere continuum, and impacts on ecosystem services
Modelling pollutant transport across the soil-water-atmosphere continuum, and impacts on ecosystem services (SOILPROM) is funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme, with a budget of 7 million EUR. SOILPROM is coordinated by the Soil Physics and Land Management chair group of Wageningen University and brings together a strong consortium consisting of 12 partners across Europe. The overall objective of SOILPROM is to deliver upgraded and integrated models for pollutant transport and fate that assess the impact of soil pollution on soil functions and related ecosystem services. SOILPROM supports local stakeholders towards sustainable land management strategies and policies for healthy soils all over Europe, by considering a selection of pollutants that are considered to have a high risk to the environment and humans. This includes metals, microplastics, pesticides, and PFAS.
SOILPROM will go beyond the state-of-the-art by focusing on 13 soil-related processes that are currently under-represented in modelling. To do so, SOILPROM will improve descriptions of these processes through upgrading and integration of a relevant selection of models across the different environmental compartments. These models will focus on different processes across the soil-water-atmosphere continuum, studied within the 7 SOILPROM use-cases. The use-cases have been selected to cover different pedo-climatic regions across Europe and address regions with serious pollution concerns and with different land-use: agriculture, forestry, and industrial soils.