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Celebrating World Soil Day 2025: Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities

Global

Event

Soil collections & education

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Thaisa van der Woude,

Event coordinator

11 December 2025

On Tuesday, 2 December, participants from across the globe joined us online to celebrate World Soil Day, observed annually on 5 December. The one-hour event featured three inspiring speakers who discussed this year’s theme, “Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities,” highlighting the vital role of soils in our urban environments.

The session featured the following presentations:

  1. Bridging Above and Below: Soil, Citizens, and Earthworm

    Chengcheng FENG – Soil Geography & Landscape Group, Wageningen University & Research

  2. Under and Above Technic Hard Material

    Przemyslaw Charzynski– Department of Soil Science and Landscape Ecology, Nicolaus Copernicus University

  3. Centre to Periphery – Searching for the Dutch Mountains

    Sigrid Schmeisser – Research and Design Studio Peak15

Thank you to everyone who joined us for this inspiring session. You can now watch the full recording below.

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