Division of Environment and Natural Resources
EUROSION
End: nov 2030
Start: nov 2025
European Soil Erosion Monitoring and Modelling Network for Sustainable Agricultural Land Management
| External project link | EUROSION website |
| Start - end date | 01.11.2025 - 01.11.2030 |
| Project manager | Wageningen University (WUR) |
| Project manager at Nibio | Jannes Stolte |
| Division | Division of Environment and Natural Resources |
| Department | Soil and Land Use |
| Funding source | European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101218843 |
The EUROSION project aims at creating a robust monitoring network to assess soil erosion status and trends across spatial and temporal scales and promote best management practices to agricultural land managers and decision-makers to reduce soil erosion.
Erosion is a major threat to the ecosystemic services provided by soils, especially for nutrient cycling, provision of food, water purification, leading to significant on- and off-site effects that need to be monitored, studied and prevented. To tackle these pressing challenges, the European Union launched on November 1st, 2025, EUROSION, a large-scale research and innovation project with a budget of €11.49 million, bringing together 24 partners from 13 countries, stretching from Tunisia to Norway and United Kingdom to Turkey.
EUROSION aims to advance knowledge, develop innovative solutions, and support effective strategies to protect soils and sustain their vital functions for ecosystems and society.
By providing an integrated, harmonized, and dynamic understanding of soil erosion, EUROSION directly contributes to the European Soil Strategy and the European Green Deal.
The project also aligns with EU goals for sustainable agriculture and climate resilience, supporting evidence-based decision-making for soil protection across the continent.
The project’s framework
EUROSION aims to establish the first pan-European dynamic soil erosion monitoring network. The project relies on 14 monitoring nodes, acting as open-air laboratories, covering the main erosion processes: water erosion, tillage erosion and wind erosion.
EUROSION's five objectives
- Develop a multi-scale Monitoring Network and provide up-to-date and accurate data
- Enhance, calibrate, and validate existing process-based erosion models to estimate soil erosion across space and time
- Develop a platform to facilitate the collaboration between monitoring stakeholders and provide access to soil erosion data and knowledge
- Provide farmers with recommendations on best practices for reducing soil erosion
- Providing policymakers with recommendations enhancing the adoption of practices reducing soil erosion