The aim of the project is to assess the impacts of the European Commission's Green Claims initiative in Finland and to support the working group in the field of green claims. The project will produce...

The overall objective of this Horizon Europe funded project (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-EOSC-01) is to develop a virtual environment equipped with FAIR multi-disciplinary data and services to support marine ...

Project background  In order to mitigate climate change, Finland aims to be carbon neutral in 2035. The land use sector is both a significant carbon sink and a source of CO2 emissions....

Group manager Contact information TkT, KTM, MMM firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel: +358 29 525 1065 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Societal change Agency Lat......

Upgrading of Swedish wastewater treatment plants – research and practice hand in hand Author: Michael Cimbritz, Department of Chemical Engineering, Lund University, michael.cimbritz(at)chemeng....

Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) provides valuable expertise in environmental policy-making and administration as well as advanced research and monitoring techniques also internationally. ...

The strategy of the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) for 2021–2025 consists of our vision, mission statement, values and objectives that guide all our activities. Vision S...

Finnish Environment Institute’s (Syke) management system consists of the rules that guide Syke’s activities as well as Syke’s own policies, practices and guidelines. The purpose of the management sys...

Frequently asked questions and answers about Proftest Syke services. The questions are divided in six topic areas. Registration and customer information | ProftestWEB | Samples | R...

For the latest updates on the project, check the project website. BIONEXT will develop knowledge, tools, and guidance for mainstreaming biodiversity into policy making and provide con...

***Accept cookies in order to see embedded videos.*** Poster: An integrated tool to assess the climate and health benefits of urban strategies and measures (pdf) . The poster was pres...

© Elise Järvenpää Background In 2019 the European Commission formulated the “European Green Deal”, a roadmap of key policies, legislative proposals, and strategies to implement ...

Background In April 2021, Finnish Government set a resolution on the Strategic Programme for Circular Economy . The basis of the resolution is a vision that Finnish economy will be based on a...

UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (look bigger picture ). The operations of the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) are directly or indirectly related to most of the UN’s Sustainable D...

Background and aims Decarbonizing energy system is the main avenue to mitigate climate change. This project attempts to enable large scale flexibility of electricity consumption at the residenti...

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...

Leverage points have been proposed as one of the boundary objects in sustainability science that aim to explain how sustainability transformation can be accelerated. The concept of leverage points (M...

Photo: The Ministry of the Environment   The new national built environment information system (Ryhti) gathers data related to construction and zoning. The system will have two ...

Working with the built environment information system.   Currently, zoning data is not comprehensively and nationally available in Finland to guide the use and development of ar...

Approximately one million tons of solid matter, known as sewage sludge, is separated from wastewater annually in Finnish wastewater treatment plants. 90 % of the nutrient rich sludge is used in agric...