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Please see herebelow the latest European Soil Data Centre Newsletter No.129
(Apr 2021).

Apologies for any cross-posting.

*Amir Kassam *

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ESDAC: http://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu     ESDAC Newsletter No *129* (Apr
2021)

PERSAM tool
<https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/european-food-safety-authority-efsa-data-persam-software-tool>*
for predicting environmental concentrations of pesticides in topsoil*

In support of the EFSA Guidance Document for predicting environmental
concentrations of active substances of plant protection products and
transformation products of these active substances in soil (EFSA, 2017)
and following valuable input from the PERSAM users, the software tool has
been updated and a new version is now available on the ESDAC website. The
PERSAM tool assists the users in performing calculations using the analytic
model.

https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/european-food-safety-authority-efsa-data-persam-software-tool

Open vacancy at the Soil team
<https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/showprj.php?type=A&id=1931>*:
Understanding the links between SOil pollution and CancEr” *

This is an exploratory research position on *soil diffuse pollution *with
initial focus will be on metals (e.g. Cadmium, Arsenic, Zinc, Lead,
Nickel), but with scope to extend to other substance (e.g. plant protection
products, industrial chemicals, pesticides). The researcher will be in
charge of the spatial mapping of outcomes (including predictive
considerations) and make contributions to the better un­derstanding of
soil-plant uptake of pollutants and development of soil-food flows from
satellite derived crop maps. The JRC offers a 2-years contract for this
exploratory research.  *Deadline for applications*: *31.3.2021*.
https://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ (2021-IPR-A5001-FGIV-016728).

SOLACE <https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/solace>* project:
Understanding the links between Soil pollution and CancEr *

SOLACE is a JRC Exploratory Research Project that will investigate
potential relationship between the occurrence of specific cancers and
levels of soil pollution. The Project aims to develop a method­ology that
moves from measures of concentrations of carcinogenic substances in soil
towards the identification of hazards and risk analysis that may help
explain eventual potential pathways that cause cancers (i.e.
soil-plant-food, erosion by wind and water, etc.).  The project will
investigate the potential links between contaminated soils as an
environmental driver for cancer cases.

https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/projects/solace

Commission publishes study on the CAP’s impact on soil
<https://ec.europa.eu/info/news/commission-publishes-study-caps-impact-soil-2021-feb-04_en>

As part of a series of evaluation of the Common agricultural policy (CAP)
against its general objective of sustainable management of natural
resources and climate action, this evaluation support study of the im­pact
of the CAP on soil identified the activities having an effect on soil
quality and reviewed the imple­mentation choices at the Member States’ and
beneficiaries’ levels on instruments and measures with an impact on soil
quality and productivity. It investigated the effectiveness, efficiency,
relevance, coherence and EU added value of the CAP instruments and measures
addressing sustainable soil management and soil quality.
https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2762/799605

EJP SOIL Second internal calls
<https://projects.au.dk/research-projects/second-internal-call-pre-announcement/>*
(pre-announcement)*

The European Joint Programme (EJP) SOIL - ‘*Towards climate-smart
sustainable management of agricul­tural soils*’ comprise 24 countries and
many organizations committed to the overall goal of providing sus­tainable
agricultural soil management solutions that contribute to key societal
challenges including climate change and future food supply. The overall
objective of this 2nd internal call
<https://projects.au.dk/fileadmin/projects/ejpsoil/1st_Call_documents/2nd_Call_int_documents/20210226_EJPSOIL_WP3_D3.4_2nd_Call_Pre-announcement_cv_b_online.pdf>
is to fund research projects open to EJP SOIL beneficiaries and linked
third parties to fill research and development gaps identified by the
“Roadmap for the EJP SOIL” and the annual work program of the EJP SOIL for
year two. Deadline: *31.5.21 *

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