Thursday, December 3, 2026
Brussels Environment Auditorium
08:30
Welcoming Participants
09:15
Welcome speech
Saïd El Fadili, Director of Integrated Soil Management -
Brussels Environment, Belgium
09:30
Review and outlook for European Soil legislation
09:55
Review and outlook for the SOL legislation in the Flemish Region
10:20
Review and outlook for the SOL legislation in the Walloon Region
10:45
Coffee break
11:05
Review and outlook for the SOL legislation in the Brussels-Capital Region
Saïd El Fadili, Director of Integrated Soil Management -
Brussels Environment, Belgium
11:30
Round table
Review and outlook for land legislation in Europe and the Belgian Regions
Programme currently in progress
12:30
Lunch
Session A
Soil monitoring, diagnosis and health
13:45
Brussels Soil Health Index
François Henry, Soil Expert - Brussels Environment, Belgium
14:10
IQSW-pro: a tool for assessing soil quality and health
Clélia Van de Casteele, Soil Research Officer -
ARIES Consultants, Belgium
14:35
KriGIS, a Walloon tool to simplify the management of contaminated sites
Olivier Bouhon, Director - Artesia Environnement, Belgium
15:00
Knowing when to stop: A sustainability-driven exit strategy
Charline Kaplan, Senior Consultant - ERM, Belgique
15:25
Coffee break
15:45
Participatory phytostabilization of contaminated and inhabited soils:
Species performance, community involvement, and restoration costs in
Kipushi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Joëlle Kilela Mwamba, PhD Candidate - University of Liège, Belgium
16:10
Beyond sterilisation: functional recovery of soils after in situ thermal
treatment, from laboratory to field
Ysaline Depasse, Team Leader Technology Development -
Haemers Technologies, Belgium
16:35
GIS for soil pollution management at Infrabel
Nicolas Renaud Isaac, Soil Pollution Advisor - Infrabel, Belgium
17:00
End of the first day
Friday 4 December 2026
08:30
Welcoming participants
Session B
Emerging pollutants: identifying, measuring and managing them
09:15
From bench study to field application: PFAS stabilization in contaminated
soils at an industrial site
Jack Shore, Regional Manager Europe - Regenesis, United Kingdom
09:40
PFASafe® v2: a new dimension for PFAS-monitoring of soil
Pieter Joos, Expert Analytical Research & Development and Quality,
Belgium
10:05
Feedback on PFAS sampling cross contamination
Sylvie Traverse, Project Manager - Ginger Burgeap, France
10:30
Beyond Multi-PFAS methods: A group-based analytical strategy for the
determination of ultrashort-chain PFAS and Fluorotelomer Alcohols
Jana Kováčová, PFAS Lead for Continental Europe - ALS, Czech Republic
10:55
Coffee break
11:15
Round-table discussion:
PFAS – what challenges do they pose for soil and groundwater management?
Programme currently in progress
12:30
Lunch
Session C
Prevention and restoration of degraded soils and new approaches to soil
management
13:45
Validation by a Residual Risk Analysis of Management Threshold Values for
PFAS-Contaminated Soils in an Airport Context
Lucie Robin Vigneron, Managing Director - HPC International, France
14:10
Adsorption of PFAS onto clays
Najeeb Ullah Khan, PhD student - Monash University, Australia
14:35
Sustainable bioremediation technology to ensure soil conservation
Erwan Goulian, Account Manager - Evonik, France
15:00
No Net Land Take in Brussels: presentation of the findings of the
exploratory study
Wouter François, Head of Department, Integrated Land Management -
Brussels Environment, Belgium
15:25
Coffee break
15:45
Soil flushing and foam fractionation for In-Situ PFAS remediation of a
former papermill industrial site
Seppe Van Hoof, Project Engineer Planet Redevelopment -
Jan De Nul, Belgium
16:15
General conclusions of the symposium, acknowledgements and official
closing
Saïd El Fadili, Head of the Soils Sub-division -
Brussels Environment, Belgium
16:30
End of the conference