Awareness raising for soil and necessarily for contaminated sites within the Greenland Project

Wien

2014

S. 20

Artikel aus einer ZeitschriftUnselbständiges Werk

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One aim of the GREENLAND-project (http://www.greenland-project.eu) was the dissemination of the output of each involved field experiment. Several approaches where chosen, differently by each field site manager. The approach of awareness raising for soil and remediation on a Pb/Zn-contaminated site in the village Arnoldstein (Carinthia, Austria) was to include and invite scholars from the neighbouring villages. For that purpose the Austrian Soil Science Society runs a workshop series, aiming at awareness raising of the value and functions of soil ("Boden macht Schule" – "Soil meets Schools") has been commissioned. Based on the workshop in February 2014 in two schools scholars worked at the topic of soil and remediation over the following two months – creating posters, sculptures, short presentations and a summary in a kind of abstract book. As highlight of the dissemination process a field day in May 2014 was conducted. At that day approximately 100 scholars from 4 different classes walked to the remediation field plots to see the efforts which have to be undertaken for improving a contaminated site. At that time the farmer prepared the plots for the new vegetation period and the field experiment was established. Additionally, due to the vicinity of the industrial site an industry representative gave important information about industry history, actual situation and the positive example of the re-use of the industrial area for industrial companies – instead of greenfield strategy. Finally in June 2014 a presentation of scholars of their outputs in front of their parents were conducted. The topics of soil, soil functions and the necessity of remediation of contaminated sites were discussed and disseminated in a cross-generation manner.