Soils and their biodiversity are critical to human well-being because their activities underpin soil resources and the delivery of major ecosystem services, from nutrient cycling to food production. Despite the acknowledgement of the value of soil and the numerous ecosystem services provided, raising awareness of the importance of soils and life in soils remains challenging. Soil communication activities and education programmes are consistently a low priority on the global agenda (even after the popularized International Year of Soil 2015, the beginning of the International Decade of Soils and the objectives of the Global Soil Partnership). Society is still ignoring soil as a major actor in combating hunger, facing climate change, freshwater scarcity and biodiversity loss. Meeting these global societal challenges, while having to sustain the productivity of our natural and managed lands, will require not only knowledge on the role of soils and their biodiversity, but also implementing and transferring that knowledge to beneficiaries of soil functions. The year 2015 was a blossom of soil awareness activities worldwide and subsequently, every single soil conference has stressed the need of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration: soil scientists should team up with geographers, agronomists, biologists, chemists and urban planners. Thus, the goal of this session is to take the next step and share successful examples of integration of research developments on soil-based ecosystem services into policy, education, and land management across scales. In this session, we encourage abstracts from research that integrates education, public outreach, citizen science, science communication, and applicable management and policy techniques. We are especially interested in novel approaches applied locally, that can be scaled up, and integrated into global solutions. We welcome participants from a diverse background of sciences, career stages, and countries.