Save the date! This online seminar held on the 16th of June 2020 is your opportunity to learn how three BONUS Synthesis Projects synthesized existing science, what they found, and how this knowledge c......

You can influence EU policy by telling us what you think needs to be done to improve the status of the Baltic sea, coastal waters and of rivers and lakes. ...

This decade, Finland has for the first time a real chance to significantly reverse the decline in biodiversity. In the last 25 years, many new ways have been found to restore nature. Halting the deter......

The EEA report ‘Resource efficiency and the circular economy in Europe 2019 – even more from less’ was published on 1st of April 2020. Finland has plenty of excellent examples of policies, strategies ......

A Finno-Colombian cooperation project aimed at improving the monitoring of water quality in Colombia was launched at the beginning of the year. The quality assurance of laboratory work is a key elemen......

UN Sustainable Development Goals are meant to guide decision-making within and across different policy sectors to tackle the persistent environmental and social challenges of our time. In the Europea...

The project produced an extensive amount of documentation supporting the nature protection in North Macedonia. The main project outputs are the following: Executive summary of the final repo...

  Summarizing publications Recommendations for maritime spatial planning for sustainable blue economies (pdf) Newsletter 4 In English  (pdf) and  In E...

Two new regional nature reserves have been established in the Russian regions neighbouring Finland. A natural monument was established on the Zaonezhye Peninsula in Karelia, while a larger conservatio......

During the 53rd meeting of the European Network of Freshwater Research Organizations on 18–19 November 2019 in Finland, Antonio Lo Porto from the Italian Water Research Institute passed the chairmansh......

The project purpose was to strengthen administrative capacities of the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning, Administration of Environment, Nature Department and other relevant stakeholders ...

Towards the end of the autumn, during Finland’s EU presidency, it will be decided whether to begin European Union accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania. These countries have implemen......

  Step 1. Stocktaking, October 2016 – March 2017   Kick-off meeting / December 2016 (Helsinki, Finland). Kick-off program...

Director General, Professor Lea Kauppi from Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) has been nominated as a member of the Mission Board for Healthy Oceans, Seas, Coastal and Inland Waters for the Horizon......

  Newsletter 4 in September 2019 (pdf): In English /  In Estonian Newsletter 3 in June 2019 (pdf): In English /  In Estonian Newsletter 2...

Final conference 4–5 June 2019 Riitta Pöntynen, University of Turku "In the first session on blue economy and economic analysis, we focused on the drivers and the alternative future ...

Final conference 4–5 June 2019 Riku Varjopuro, Finnish Environment Institute “In the two sessions on cross-border collaboration we focussed especially in thinking of the next step...

Final conference 4–5 June 2019 Robert Aps, Estonian Marine Institute "During the session of “Ecosystem-based approach to MSP“ we discussed how ecosystem components should be taken in...

Final conference 4–5 June 2019 Conference programme (pdf, 1 MB) Remarks of Riku Varjopuro, project leader from Finnish Environment institute Riku Varjopuro, Finnish Environment I...

Final conference 4–5 June 2019 Harri Tolvanen, University of Turku “We discussed recent progress and future prospects for GIS in MSP. The session focused on knowledge creation by par...