Between 10 and 12 May 2023, Vasco Reis, Sara Sousa and Ana Ferreira, students at FEUP (L.EMG, L.EA and M.EA), three fellows of the FCT project "Summer with Science", presented at IJUP - Encontro de Investigação Jovem da U.Porto, the developed research activities in the project SHS - Soil health surrounding former mining areas: characterization, risk analysis, and intervention and in the project NORM contaminated site under the scientific coordination of CERENA’s researchers: Maria de Lurdes Dinis, Maria Cristina Vila and António Fernandes and also with the collaboration of the SHS fellow and M.EMG finalist, Ana Rita Araújo.