Mission Soil & Water: Living waters - working together for protection, restoration and sustainable water use

The project "Mission Soil & Water: Working together for healthy soil and water" shows how BOKU can contribute to finding transformative solutions for the sustainable use, protection and revitalisation of soils and waters together with society. To this end, BOKU's extensive expertise in the Soil and Waters missions will be linked and made visible internally for an exchange with society and thus positioned externally as a thematic beacon of transformation on a supra-regional level. In order to make the best possible use of BOKU's unique position and expertise in both missions, cross-mission goals that relate to both the Soil and Waters missions are also being pursued. To this end, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches will be applied and the universities' training programmes (doctoral schools) will be integrated into the activities. Principles of inter- and transdisciplinarity, co-creation, co-design and citizen science will be applied to approach the objectives of the missions, such as measures for the protection and remediation of waters and soils as well as measures for the sustainable use of these important natural resources. This supports the implementation of the missions at BOKU itself and in Austrian society.