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The 2nd International Summer School on Advanced Soil Physics: Soil-Plant-Water Flow will be held at UCLouvain, Belgium, from 8 to 12 September 2025. This intensive one-week program aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of water flow in the soil-rhizosphere-plant system, influenced by plant physiology and rhizosphere hydraulics.

Save the date !ELI-Day returns on 27 May.We invite all ELI researchers to submit abstracts for presentations or posters (max 2 contributions per person - max 250 words, in English only).Besides poster sessions, you can submit in one of the following two presentation types:Individual presentations - 15 minutes (including Q&A)For these sessions we will select abstracts presenting specific resear

What if citizens could give your research a boost?Did you know that lichens can reveal air quality? In the LichenGo project, citizens and researchers collaborate to observe these organisms and map pollution across Europe - a great example of participatory science!Other examples?

On May 22, the Earth and Life Institute is delighted to welcome Doctor Lukas Egli for an ELI Sustainability Talk entitled "Sustainable agri-food systems at the local scale: Community-Supported Agriculture in Germany".Dr Lukas Egli works at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, in Germany.He has published high-impact work revealing the importance of crop diversity, asynchrony, and landsc

On June 18, the Earth and Life Institute is delighted to welcome Doctor Marijn Van der Velde for an ELI Sustainability Talk entitled "Integrating and spatializing EU-wide data streams to monitor agricultural sustainability".Marijn Van der Velde is the leader of the AgriEnvClim group at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC).His research focuses on the management and interactions of