The EU Soil Monitoring and Resilience Directive will require all Member States to establish harmonised soil monitoring systems, assess, classify soil health and report on it, with the final aim of reaching healthy soils by 2050. Transposing these obligations into 27 diverse national contexts raises major scientific challenges: selecting robust indicators and thresholds, designing representative monitoring networks, ensuring data comparability, and integrating legacy datasets. This session invites contributions that critically assess these scientific bottlenecks, present methodological advances (e.g. SOC/clay ratio, soil biodiversity metrics, new sensors), and explore how research can support cost-effective, coherent and long-term monitoring. Comparative insights from EJP SOIL and related projects are especially welcome to highlight opportunities for harmonisation and innovation.
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