Future users such as soil advisers, land managers, policy makers and scientists are being invited to help shape a new Soil Health Viewer from the AI4SoilHealth project – a tool designed to put powerful, AI-driven soil insights in the palm of your hand. Built on Europe’s most advanced soil data platform, the Soil Health Viewer aims to deliver practical, localised information to support smarter, more sustainable farming decisions.
A Soil Health Viewer designed to match your needs
As the product has now entered its testing phase, we need a large number of potential users to contribute their ideas for how to improve it. We invite you to try out this dashboard and chatbot, explore its functions, and let us know how it performs in practice.
Your involvement is crucial for ensuring that the platform remains accessible, relevant, and firmly grounded in real user needs. By taking part in this process, you directly influence how the project refines its tools and services. This will help create a practical product designed not only to meet scientific expectations but to meaningfully assist everyone working to safeguard and improve soil health across Europe.
We encourage you to share your thoughts through the feedback survey by 15 July
How to use this Soil Health Viewer
To support you, we have provided a short instructional video:
The importance of co-design
The EU Mission Soil has placed collaborative innovation at the centre of its strategy to restore soil health, and the AI4SoilHealth project fully embraces this principle. By integrating co-design into every stage of development, the project is hoping to ensure its digital tools reflect the real needs of those working with soils daily.
This approach has influenced both the project’s technical development and its underlying philosophy, reinforcing the idea that effective solutions arise when diverse users play an active role in shaping them.
Co-design of the Soil Health Viewer so far
AI4SoilHealth adopted a structured three-phase engagement process, beginning with internal project partners before moving to pilot-site farmers and other associated stakeholders, and finally extending outreach to the wider public. During Phase 2, the team conducted 29 structured interviews with potential users of a future AI4SoilHealth tool, including farmers (52%), researchers (15%), soil advisors (12%), policymakers (7%), foresters (5%), landowners (5%) and plant breeding consultants (4%). Interviewees showed particular interest in farm-scale monitoring and cropland management, underscoring the value they see in a platform capable of visualising, integrating and managing soil information. Advisors and researchers were generally satisfied with the Soil Health Viewer’s functionalities, while many farmers highlighted the need for a more intuitive and less complex interface. This feedback directly informed the project’s decision to target the Soil Health Viewer towards users with a certain level of expertise. However, further feedback is now needed to continue refining the user experience of this tool.
Ongoing stakeholder workshops
In addition to the survey, the agricultural community are being invited to feedback their thoughts at a series of events in June and July 2026. Partner workshops are taking place in several countries to support engagement around the pilot phase and gather further practical feedback from users and stakeholders. Come find us at Farmari in Finland, EU Green Week in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Groundswell Festival in England and more.
