FOOTPRINT Project presentations cont.

Series of oral communications at the FOOTPRINT Annual Meeting 2008 (Wroclaw, Poland, 6-7 November 2008)

50 participants attended the FOOTPRINT 2008 annual meeting, which was organised by the Institute of Environmental Engineering (IEE) of the Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences. The aims of the meeting were to update the participants on:

1. Progress on the development of the three FOOT tools.
2. Validation activities in the various European countries.
3. Follow-up plans to support FOOTPRINT beyond the end of the European funding.

Presentations

• The FOOTPRINT project: general presentation and update on progress .
• Categorisation of EU soils into FOOTPRINT soil types: a major leap forward .
• Increasing confidence in the FOOTPRINT results: validation of the MACRO parameterisation scheme .
• FOOT-FS demo .
• FOOT-NES demo .
• Evaluation activities .
• FOOTPRINT: applications and future developments .