TUdi holds final meeting in Brussels!

On 4 June 2025, TUdi’s final meeting took place in Brussels, Belgium. The event brought together project partners from across Europe as well as relevant stakeholders. 

The event focused on presenting TUdi’s final outputs, including the DSTs and the SEST tool.  TUdi’s project coordinator, Jose A. Gomez (IAS), opened the day with a warm introduction, which was followed by a session on digitalisation during which Llanos López  (Agrisat) presented the tools developed within the scope of the project, such as the Decision Support Tools (DSTs). Tomas Dostal (CTU) and Laura Zavattaro (UNITO) spoke on the lessons learned regarding prospective users and technology status. 

Next up was a session on soil restoring strategies and corresponding technologies identified within the project. Gunther Liebhard (BOKU)  presented the materials developed in TUdi, such as the multilingual leaflets offering advice on soil management and soil restoring practices, TUdi’s legacy brochure, and TUdi’s children's brochure, whilst Csilla Hudek (Lancaster University) spoke on the use of vegetation. 

The afternoon portion of the event was dedicated to a session on socioeconomics, followed by a roundtable. The session included a presentation by Dimitre Nikolov (NBU) in which he focused on the business models around soil restoration concerning cost-benefit, thus highlighting TUdi’s socio-economic soil restoring digital support toolkit (SEST). Peter Strauss (BOKU) followed with a session on stakeholder engagement. The final session of the day was led by Stoyan Tchoukanov (EESC), who spoke on regenerative agriculture as a target towards sustainable agriculture and food production, by supporting climate and biodiversity objectives. 

The day wrapped up with a round discussion. This final session provided all attendees with the opportunity to share their experiences working on TUdi, exchange insights, and explore ideas for future steps and potential collaborations. future steps and possible collaborations. 

While TUdi has made significant progress over the past few years, continued efforts are needed to advance sustainable and regenerative agricultural practices. The final event served not only as a celebration of what has been achieved but also as a springboard for future collaboration and innovation in the journey toward healthier soils and more resilient farming systems.