The project tackles littering and improves waste management in rural villages in North Karelia, Finland, and the Karelian Republic, Russia. We encourage and support local residents, authorities and c...

In the cross-border project “Water meets people SEVIRA” (2018-2022) it was time to hear and share what had been achieved and learned through the work carried out in the three work packages during the......

Better information on the environment through automatic water quality monitoring Continuous sets of data from automatic water quality monitoring ënables more accurate nutrient loading estimates ......

The key theme of the SEVIRA project is co-operation between Finland and Russia. One aspect of the project is the long-term monitoring of the state of the coastal waters of the Eastern Gulf of Finland......

River Rakkolanjoki. © Eija Rantajärvi. At the beginning of 2021, researchers from the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE and experts from the City of Lappeenranta conducted a citizen......

Study areas of the BARIMS project The BARIMS project, that is funded by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, aims to enhance regional co-operation in the light of sustainable de...

Boreal forests of the Barents Region stretch through Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, who are all Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Under the CBD, Aichi Biodiversity Targ...

River Virojoki. © Eija Putkuri. As part of the SEVIRA-project, SYKE's researchers and experts from the municipalities of Virolahti and Miehikkälä carried out a public survey regardin......

River Rakkolanjoki. Photo: Merja Pulkkanen. SEVIRA project organized a third virtual workshop for Finnish and Russian hydrologists remotely on May 25, 2021. The topics workshop covered we......

Ljudmila Vesikko. The Aleksanteri Institute organized from 10 to 11 May, 2021.a National Aleksanteri Forum. Ljudmila Vesikko, project coordinator of the SEVIRA project from the Finnish ......

Discharge measurements with ADCP-profiler and MF Pro-device in the River Rakkolanjoki. © Pekka Vähänäkki. SEVIRA-project arranged a field measurement campaign with discharge measurem......

SEVIRA team in the joint expedition. Photo: Ecocentrum. SEVIRA-project was represented in the joint expedition of the Ecocentrum and Friends of the Baltic with the partners: the Institute......

SEVIRA-project participated in XXI International Environmental Forum "Baltic Sea Day" in St Petersburg. Dr. Sergey Kondratyev (ILRAS) gave a presentation of the preliminary results of the ENI-CBC -fu......

The Finnish and Russian hydrologists of the SEVIRA project held a second virtual workshop remotely on February 24, 2021. In this virtual event, presentations were given on Russian peatland h......

  The SEVIRA-project realizes surveys and interviews for Finnish and Russian citizens of the state of local waters and how to improve water quality. In Finland two large surveys......

SEVIRA hydrologists held first virtual workshop on Nov 17th. There were presentations and discussing e.g. data quality control practices and effects of covid-19 situation on hydrological monitoring in......

The SEVIRA-project’s coastal water quality monitoring task for this season were realized as planned. There were two sampling cruises in both countries at the same time in June and August. Sampling wer......

SEVIRA-project arranged a field measurement campaign with the discharge measurement specialists both from the Southeast Finland ELY-centre and Finnish Environment Institute SYKE in October 27th, 2020.......

In the new SEVIRA-blog Maria Kämäri and Petri Ekholm write how SEVIRA-project has implemented extensive river water quality monitoring in three rivers discharging into the eastern Gulf of Finland. ...

"Nowadays satellite observations are used in diverse ways in environmental monitoring” explains senior researcher Jenni Attila from the Geoinformatics Research Unit of the Finnish Environment Insti......