This year, following the latest Outlook documents’ review round, SOLO has additionally published an official Outlook document. 

The “Outlook 2025: Soil Health R&I Knowledge Gaps” compiles all other outlook documents, also known as roadmaps, produced within each Think Tank in 2025. The Outlook offers a comprehensive overview of the EU’s current knowledge and innovation needs to improve soil health. It identifies key knowledge gaps, bottlenecks, and recommended actions for relevant soil health topics, each corresponding to one of SOLO’s Think Tanks. The following roadmaps can be found in the Outlook 2025: 

• Outlook on the knowledge gaps to improve soil structure 
• Outlook on the knowledge gaps to reduce soil erosion 
• Outlook on the knowledge gaps  to improve nature conservation of soil biodiversity 
• Outlook on the knowledge gaps related to soil literacy 
• Outlook on the knowledge gaps to reduce soil sealing and increase the reuse of urban soils 
• Outlook on the knowledge gaps to reduce land degradation in Europe  
• Outlook on the knowledge gaps to conserve and increase soil organic carbon stocks 
• Outlook on the knowledge gaps to reduce the EU global footprint on soils 
• Outlook on the knowledge gaps to soil pollution and restoration

The Outlook also provides the foundation for an overarching roadmap that integrates insights from the Think Tanks, Regional Nodes, and Soil Weeks. This overarching roadmap is built through the horizontal integration across all Think Tank roadmaps, the vertical integration of input generated from the Regional Nodes, Soil Weeks and, if applicable, other European projects. Most importantly, the overarching roadmap will outline the identified overarching themes of the key knowledge gaps, bottlenecks and actions, presented in quantitative tables.