Land and Soil Management Award 2026/2027 (€5,000 award) – YOA

Deadline: January 31, 2027

Applications are open for the Land and Soil Management Award 2026/2027. The prize rewards land use and soil administration practices mitigating soil threats i.e. soil degradation, erosion, discount of natural matter content material, diffuse contamination, and compaction in addition to the discount of soil biodiversity, salinization, sealing, flooding and landslides.

In doing so, the award sheds mild on excellent achievements, encouraging new ideas of land and soil safety and their implementation in land administration, in addition to enhancing consciousness in regards to the significance of land and soil features.

This award has been launched in 2008 by the European Landowners’ Organization (ELO), underneath the auspices of the European Commission (DG Environment, DG Agriculture and the Joint Research Centre) and in affiliation with the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) of Vienna, Syngenta International AG, in addition to the Centre for Soil and Environmental Sciences of the Ljubljana University. Since then, the award jury has chosen excellent achievements all through Europe within the discipline of sustainable soil and land administration.

Award

• €5,000 in addition to a diploma of recognition are awarded to the profitable undertaking yearly.

Eligibility

• Open to farmers, landowners, land managers, teams of farmers, on their very own or in collaboration with analysis institutes, universities and/or personal corporations;
• Have to be based mostly in Europe.

Application

The name for application is open till January 31, 2027. The award is bestowed through the Forum for the Future of Agriculture occasion (April 20, 2027).

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For extra data, go to Land and Soil Management Award.