Press releases: Tackling Europe´s water problems requires new ways of governance (Press release, Finnish Environment Institute 19.6.2023, sttinfo.fi) News Identifyin...

The External Advisory Board provides advice and consultation to GOVAQUA on key questions ensuring relevance and accuracy of the project’s results.  Members: Dr. Josefina Maestu , ...

Water is everybody´s business. GOVAQUA aims to engage the many actors, decision makers and interest groups in the water field in the development of innovative governance instruments and approach...

Finnish Environment Institute, Finland Coordinator, main contact,  Consortium co-lead Suvi Sojamo (suvi.sojamo@syke.fi) Consortium co-lead Antti Belinskij (antti.belinsk...

The results of GOVAQUA project will include:  Good practice repository  Transition pathways  Assessment tools   Online academy  Publications...

The UN Water Conference in New York on 22–24 March will mark World Water Day in an extraordinary way this year. The Finnish Environment Institute is closely involved in the Finnish delegation to promo......

GOVAQUA News: Take part: Online survey on innovative water governance practises is now open! Read more about GOVAQUA´s workshop at the EURO-INBO conference Europe is ...

This work package houses the six GOVAQUA living labs, where a representative and complementary set of innovative water governance approaches and instruments will be further developed, piloted, c...

Transition to sustainable water governance (Work Package 1) This work package defines, assesses and advances the transition towards more sustainable water governance in Europe, at multiple level...

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......

A new handbook will promote sustainable and equitable allocation of transboundary water resources. The publication is the first of its kind and is the latest example of Finland’s significant role in i......

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......

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......