SOILS4MED

SOILS4MED has the following objectives: 1) engage with stakeholders in line with the Living Lab ap-proach and raise awareness on the benefits deriving from increased investment in soil data and in-formation (SDI); 2) develop policy relevant integrated in- dicator sets and monitoring protocols adapted to the environmental specificities and stakeholder needs of the Mediterranean Region; 3) validate the protocols in study areas representing major agro-ecological regions and soil types, generating the first region-wide harmonized soil health dataset for the Mediterranean Region; 4) demon- strate the capacity of the SDI produced by the protocols, integrated by legacy soil data, to feed state-of-the-art tools to support sustainable soil and water management, land degradation neutrality, and to en-hance regional soil condition mapping including carbon stock mapping; and 5) design and implement standardized country-based soil information systems (SIS) for the effective management and use of SDI.