Within the project of URBAN SMS (Soil Management Strategy), the Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute Bratislava invited the SONDAR SK-AT project partners to present a Slovak expert committee with their project.

A large number of contacts were made, and the through the network of the audience, participants for the creative competition “Painting with the Colours of the Earth”, which shall be launched in February 2012, have been acquired.

Below you can have a look at the course of this event:

Program:
9:00 – 9:30 Registration of participants
9:30 – 9:50 Basic information about the project URBAN SMS and VÚPOP as a project partner
(Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jaroslava Sobocká, Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute Bratislava)
9:50 – 10:10 Municipal Soil Manager Guide, Guidance for soil in SEA/EIA (translation into SK)
(Dr. Sigbert Huber, Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Vienna Austria)
10:10 – 10:30 Break (coffee, tea)
10:30 – 10:50 Vienna meets Bratislava (translation into SK)
(Dr. Isabel Wieshofer, City Vienna, Dept. of Environmental Protection, Austria)
10:50 – 11:30 Pilot project Bratislava BA2 – Tools for soil assessment in the city of Bratislava
(Dr. Martin Saksa, PhD., Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute Bratislava)
11:30 – 12:00 Discussion about outlined problems
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch (provided by institute)

13:00 – 13:15 Pilot project BA1 „Chemical Waste Dump of Vrakuna and its Environmental Impacts"
(Assoc. prof. Dr. JaroslavaSobocká, Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute Bratislava)
13:15 – 13:30 „Chemical Waste Dump – Water Quality Protection"
(Dr. Stanislav Klauco, SKOV – Service for Water Quality and Protection, s.r.o.)
13:30 – 14:00 Discussion about outlined problems
14:00 – 14:15 Break (coffee, tea)
14:15 – 14:45 Kick-off meeting of the cross-border cooperation project Slovak Republic – Austria SONDAR SK-AT (Cooperation in soil protection in the Danube region: Lower Austria – West Slovakia as an example of good practice)
(Ing. David Purchart, Vodohospodárskavýstavba, s.p., Bratislava – Slovak representative, Bernhard Kuderer MSc., BIENE – Austrian representative)
14:45 – 15:30 Discussion about the outlined project