nterested in soil science, land degradation, climate change, and sustainable land management?

Join the international ExSoil Summer School 2026 and gain hands-on experience in field and laboratory methods for assessing soil erosion and degradation in dryland environments.

📍 Astana & Shortandy, Kazakhstan
📅 25–31 July 2026
🗣️ Working language: English

Participants will explore:
✔️ Soil health and ecosystem resilience
✔️ Wind and water erosion processes
✔️ Wind tunnel and rainfall simulation experiments
✔️ GIS and remote sensing applications
✔️ Sustainable land management in Central Asia

The programme is designed for MSc students, PhD candidates, early-career researchers, and young professionals from soil science, agronomy, environmental sciences, geography, ecology, and related fields.

🎓 A limited number of travel grants are available for participants from Central Asia and Mongolia.

Organized by:
• ExSoil – Competence Network for Soil Science in Central Asia and Mongolia
• Leibniz University Hannover (Germany)
• Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)

Hosted in cooperation with:
• Saken Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical Research University (Kazakhstan)
• A.I. Baraev Scientific and Production Centre for Grain Farming (Kazakhstan)

📩 Applications: [email protected]
📅 Application deadline: 22 June 2026

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