Soil science is essential for precision agriculture and for sustainable soil management. The EU-funded SOILdarity project will develop strategies to integrate soil ecology with cutting-edge soil and crop sensors, modelling and system-control-technologies for sustainable soil management. The project focuses on Portugal, where soil faces considerable challenges due to management and climate change, erosion and overexploitation. SOILdarity especially facilitates the cooperation between the coordinator, FCiências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências (including the University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Science), and two leading research institutions, MIGAL- Galilee Research Institute (Israel) and UGENT University (Belgium).