The establishment of the European Soil Strategy has enforced the link between soil information and geo-information. This has generated the need for interoperable, accessible and harmonised soil datasets for the EU. The link is also addressed by the INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC) which pursues an EU Spatial Data Infrastructure to support environmental policies. GS Soil aims, through state-of-the-art methodologies and best practice examples, to improve harmonisation of national datasets and make them more accessible and exploitable. Therefore, it contributes to the INSPIRE implementation with specific reference to a cluster of data themes on nature conservation. The main objective of the GS Soil is to: ∙ involve stakeholders and soil data providers; ∙ share datasets and best practices; ∙ improve and stimulate exploitation and ∙ the re-use of information on soils.