VALIDATION OF THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN

SOIL DATABASE

International Visegrad Fund’s Strategic Grant No. 31210072

About the project (aim of the project, consortium, planned activities)

• The FP7 e-SOTER project developed a soil database located in Central Europe, covering the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria and the Southern part of Poland

• In order to make this novel product operation a through validation process has to be carried out

• The aim of this project is to support this action with organized joint field data collection campaigns int he four countries to create a harmonized field data based validation dataset for the finalization of the database.

• Replace the traditional soil maps, and is appropriate to answer specific soil related questions and provide inputs for several interdisciplinary models on a national and on the regional level

• Originally only Hungary and the Czech Republic were presented in the e-SOTER consortium, which we have extended in this project to Slovakia and Poland to achive the full coverage of the region.

• The planned activities: – Field data harmonization, soil description, and validation database developement requires

joint field trips having representatives from all participating countries. – The planned field trip lenght is 5 days each, and each countries will organize one. 20-25 soil

pits per countries will be visited and described by the team and data will be recorded and compiled into a validation dataset.

– The dataset will be used for statistical validation and for correcting the potentially emerging problems of the database. Typicalcorrelation and interpretation problems will be discussed and reported in a joint scientific paper.

– Based on the finding a new version of the dataset will be created and published jointly in the four countries.

The project consortium

• Miskolci Egyetem - University of Miskolc – Miskolc, Miskolc-Egyetemváros, 3525 Hungary – www.uni-miskolc.hu

• Ceská zemedelská univerzita v Praze Czech - University of Life Sciences Prague– Kamýcká 129, Praha, 165 21, CZ – www.czu.cz

• Výskumný ústav pôdoznalectva a ochrany pôdy - VUPOP Bratislava - Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute– Gagarinova 10, Bratislava, 827 13, SK– www.vupop.sk

• Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika - Nicolaus Copernicus University– Gagarina 11, Torun, 87-100, PL– www.umk.pl

Project website

• http://www.uni-miskolc.hu/~soil/

The BudgetNo. Item Amount in EUR

1 Printing and publishing costs, delivery 0.00

2 Rent of premises and related technical services 0.00

3 Fees for artists 0.00

4 Fees for experts 0.00

5 Accomodation and board 17,163.00

6 Transportation costs 6,800.00

7 Translation, interpreting costs 0.00

8 Awards and prizes 0.00

9 Office supplies and consumtion material (e.g. art supplies) 0.00

10 PR costs (e.g. advertising) 0.00

11 Website design and update 0.00

12 Overhead (max. 5% of the Fund’s contribution) 1,037.00

Total 25,000.00

Budget for the partners No. Item Amount in EUR

5 Accomodation and board (43,5 Euro per person for three meals and accomodation)

4237,5

6 Transportation costs (bus expense for the field trip) 1000,0

6 Transportation costs (3 travels by car- 233,3 EUR/trip) 700,0

12 Overhead (max. 5% of the Fund’s contribution) 312,5

Total 6250,0

Important issues:-Only 10 percent of the total budget can be paid in cash! Money should move by bank transfer !-Receipt on meals have 52 percent extra tax in Hungary!-Receipts are to be addressed to the UNIVERSITY OF MISKOLC, 3515 MISKOLC-EGYETEMVÁROS, HUNGARY or the local partner. All receipts have to be sent to us reimbursement as a package with aninvoice letter.

Events and dates

• Hungarian field trip: 15/10/2012 – 19/10/2012

• Slovakian field trip: 12/11/2012 – 16/11/2012

• Polish field trip: 15/04/2013 – 19/04/2013

• Czech field trip: 13/05/2013 – 17/05/2013

Field validation methodology

Major steps of the planning• Random site selection• Unbiased adjustments of the sites considering the

feasibility of sampling– will be describbed by Péter

• Diging soil profile in the selected location and augering four sites 100 meters from the profile to the North, East, South and West

• Profile desciption, identification of the diagnostic features,

• Doing the same for the augered samples• Recording everything!!!!!!!!!

Hungarian field trip• Locations:

– Apagy– Pród– Békés– Martfű– Jászkarajenő– Kadarfalva– Gátér– Üllés– Mélykút– Bátya– Szárazd– Töreki– Barnag– Seregélyes– Vértesszőlős– Esztergom– Nőtincs– Pásztó– Jászfelsőszentgyörgy

Hungarian field trip• Locations:

– Apagy– Pród– Békés– Martfű– Jászkarajenő– Kadarfalva– Gátér– Üllés– Mélykút– Bátya– Szárazd– Töreki– Barnag– Seregélyes– Vértesszőlős– Esztergom– Nőtincs– Pásztó– Jászfelsőszentgyörgy

Field trip program1st day 15th of october 2012

settlement county site coord. x site coord. y time accommod. meal happening

Miskolc depart at 13:00 x lunch kick off

meeting

Apagy Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg 567935,7681 5311601,6032 14:35

Pród HajdúböszörményHajdú-Bihar 528219,8188 5281928,7675 16:40

Békéscsaba 21:30 x dinner

2nd day 16th of october 2012

settlement county site coord. x site coord. y time accommod. meal happening

Békéscsaba depart at 6:30 x breakfast?

Békés Békés 510872,6225 5177845,5899 7:15 breakfast?

Martfű Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok 446961,8995 5206605,4153 11:00

Szolnok 13:00-14:00 lunchJászkarajenő Pest 432353,7342 5210713,9618 14:30

Kadafalva Kadafalva - Bács-Kiskun 394920,3107 5193366,7655 17:15

Kecskemét 18:30 x dinner

3rd day 17th of october 2012

settlement county site coord. x site coord. y time accommod. meal happening

Kecskemét depart at 6:30 x breakfast?

Gátér Bács-Kiskun 420484,5999 5168258,9815 7:30 breakfast?Üllés Csongrád 414093,5276 5132651,5786 10:00

Mélykút Bács-Kiskun 378029,6196 5120325,9392 12:00Baja 13:30-14:30 lunch

Bátya Bács-Kiskun 343335,2271 5147716,2491 15:30Szekszárd 17:44 x dinner

4th day 18th of october 2012

settlement county site coord. x site coord. y time accommod. meal happening

Szekszárd depart at 6:00 x breakfast?

Szárazd Tolna 302706,2675 5160041,8885 7:30 breakfast?Töreki Siófok - Somogy 272120,4214 5193823,2707 10:30

Veszprém 13:00-14:00 lunch

Barnag Veszprém 252947,2045 5210257,4566 14:30 very fast digging!!!

Seregélyes Fejér 317770,9379 5219844,0651 17:00Tatabánya 21:00 x dinner

5th day 19th of october 2012settlement county site coord. x site coord. y time accommod. meal happening

Tatabánya depart at 6:30 x breakfast?

Vértesszőlős Komárom-Esztergom 303619,2778 5278733,2313 7:00 breakfast?

Esztergom Komárom-Esztergom 332835,6083 5293797,9017 10:00

Esztergom 12:00-13:00 lunch

Štúrovo 13:30czech

delegation's train (16:48)

Nőtincs Nógrád 361595,4337 5305667,036 15:00If we want this two sites, very fast digging at Nőtincs and fast saying

good bye to czech delegation!

Pásztó? Nógrád 401767,8882 5306580,0463 17:30

Jászfelsőszentgyörgy? Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok 408158,9605 5263212,0557 17:50

Miskolc 18:30 x? dinner?

Field trip program