home • participants • news downloads links members	Co-ordinator Partner 1: National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University (CU), Silsoe United Kingdom NSRI is the pre-eminent centre for soil characterisation in the UK with 80 staff dedicated to soil studies. It is active at European and international levels in soil systems research (biology, chemistry, physics), pedology, soil inventory and soil monitoring development and implementation, the assessment and management of erosion, compaction, contamination and other threats, the application of Geographic Information Management systems and in soil-water engineering. Facilities include the National Soil Archive and LandIS, one of the first comprehensive soil and land information systems to be made operational at national level (England and Wales) in Europe. NSRI is also custodian of WOSSAC – World Soil Survey Archive Catalogue – that contains more than 10,000 maps, reports and associated documentation covering much of Africa, Asia and parts of Europe. http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/nsri
	Work package leaders Partner 2: Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hannover Germany The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR) is the central German geoscientific institution and subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWA). Within the subdivision “Mineralogy, Pedology”, 50 employees are dealing with pedology and mineralogy. The Institute is responsible for the development of FISBo – the BGR Soil Information System in Germany. Mandated by the national soil protection legislation, BGR develops the national soil map at 1:200,000 scale. In addition, BGR has established an international soil profile and analytical soil database and it is connected to various European and international institutions: European Soil Bureau Network; EuroGeoSurveys (EGS), national standardisation (DIN) and ISO-working groups; and the former European Topic Centre on Soil. http://www.bgr.bund.de Partner 3: UmweltBundesAmt (UBA-A), Vienna Austria UBA-A, with 380 staff, undertakes environmental monitoring and assessment for the Minister of the Environment, participates in the implementation of federal environmental laws, provides expert advice to federal and other institutions on state and trends of the environment, as well as on measures to avoid or reduce environmental pollution, designs and operates national environmental databases, and co-operates with national and international institutions. Three departments of UBA-A will contribute to ENVASSO: Department for Terrestrial Ecology, responsible for the nation-wide soil information system, developing soil indicators and criteria for environmental assessment, and providing technical and scientific support for compost, sewage sludge and biowaste regulations; the Department for Contaminated Sites; and the Department for Nature Conservation, that focus on international and Austrian wide issues dealing with nature protection, including the development of biodiversity monitoring systems for Austria http://www.umweltbundesamt.at Partner 4: Dept Environnement et Agronomie (Unite INFOSOL), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Orleans, France INRA InfoSol is the national centre for soil mapping and monitoring in France with 25 staff dedicated to co-ordination of soil studies. It is active at European and international levels in soil inventory and soil monitoring development and implementation, the assessment and management of erosion, organic carbon storage, contamination and other threats. Facilities include the National Soil Archive and the soil information system for France. Partner 5: Szent István University (SIU), Gödöllo, Hungary The University plays a dominant role in Hungarian research and higher education in the field of agricultural and environmental sciences. The team will draw staff from the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, and Department of Landscape Ecology who perform high level research in the area of basic and applied soil physics, soil chemistry and soil classification. Strong national and international experience in soil characterization, soil survey and soil monitoring makes SIU an ideal partner in the Project. http://www.sziu.hu
	Partners Partner 7: Oesterreichische Agentur fuer Gesundheit Und Ernaerungssicherheit (AGES), Austria http://www.ages.at Partner 8: Bundesforschungs und Ausbildungszentrum fuer Wald, Naturgefahren Und Landschaft (BFW), Austria http://bfw.ac.at Partner 9: Bundesamt fuer Wasserwirtschaft (BAW), Austria http://www.baw.at/ Partner 11: Universiteit Gent (UGENT), Belgium http://www.ugent.be Partner 12: Nikola Poushkarov Institute of Soil Science (ISSNP), Bulgaria http://www.iss-poushkarov.org Partner 13: Ceska Zemedelska Universzita v Praze (CUA), Czech Republic http://www.czu.cz Partner 14: Koebenhavns Universitet (IGUC), Denmark http://www.geogr.ku.dk Partner 15: Danmarks Miljoeundersoegelser (NERI), Denmark http://www.dmu.dk Partner 16: Polumajandusuuringute Keskus (ARC), Estonia http://www.pmk.agri.ee Partner 17: Maa-Ja Elintarviketalouden Tutkimus Keskus (MTT) Finland http://www.mtt.fi Partner 18: Agence de l'Environment et de la MaitriseA de l'Energie (ADEME) France http://www.ademe.fr Partner 19: Agricultural University of Athens (AUA), Greece http://www.aua.gr Partner 20: Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia Talajtani es Agrokemiai Kutato Intezete (RISSAC), Hungary http://www.taki.iif.hu Partner 21: Central Service for Plant Protection and Soil Conservation (CSPPSC), Hungary http://www.fvm.hu/ Partner 22: Miskolci Egyetem (UNIMIS), Hungary http://www.uni-miskolc.hu Partner 23: Lietuvos Zemes Ukio Universitetas (LZUU) Lithunia http://www.lzuu.lt Partner 24: Latvija Lauksaimniecibas Universitate (LLU), Latvia http://www.llu.lv Partner 25: Ministry for Rural Affairs and the Environment - Malta (MRAE), Malta http://www.mrae.gov.mt Partner 26: Alterra B.V (ALTERRA), Netherlands http://www.alterra.nl Partner 27: Rijksinstituut voor VolksgezondheidD en Milieu (RIVM), Netherlands http://www.rivm.nl Partner 28: Norsk Institutt for Jord og Skogkartlegging (NIJOS), Norway http://www.nijos.no Partner 29: Politechika Warszawska (WUT), Poland http://www.pw.edu.pl Partner 30: Instituto Nacional de Investigacao Agraria e das Pescas (INIAP) Portugal http://www.iniap.min-agricultura.pt Partner 31: Institutul de Cercetari Pentru Pedologie si Agrochimie (ICPA), Romania http://www.icpa.ro/ Partner 32: Vyskumny Ustav Podoznalectva a Ochrany Pody (SSCRI), Slovakia http://www.vupu.sk Partner 33: Univerza v Ljubljani (UL-BF), Slovenia http://www.uni-lj.si Partner 35: Generalitat de Catalunya (SARA), SARA, Spain http://www.gencat.net Partner 36: Sveriges Lantbruks-Universitet (SLU), Sweden http://www.slu.se Partner 37: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Spain http://www.csic.es Partner 38: Landessumweltamt Nordrhein-Westfalen (LUA NRW), Germany http://www.lua.nrw.de Partner 39: Sachsisches Landesamt fur Umwelt und Geologie (LfUG), Germany http://www.umwelt.sachsen.de/lfug Partner 40: The Agricultural and Food Development Authority (TEAGASC), Ireland http://www.teagasc.ie