The Desertification and Drought Day 2022 has been celebrated in Sassari in the context of the Summer School “SANAI SA TERRA” (in Sardo: “Healing the soil”) on the environmental contamination and soil restoration. The event has been organized by the Department of Agricultural Sciences and by the Desertification Research Centre (NRD) of the University of Sassari, in Sardinia and sponsored by the PRIMA foundation, by the Italian Society of Agronomy, the Italian Association of Agricultural Scientific Societies and Desertnet international. The event has seen the partecipation of Massimo Iannetta, head of the  Biotechnologies and Agroindustry ENEA Division, as a speaker.