The Finnish Environment Institute has received 4.5 million euros from the EU's research and innovation program Horizon Europe. SYKE is coordinating two biodiversity projects, BIONEXT and BIOAGORA, whi......

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

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...

You can use the Sykesearch tool to search for sea-themed projects. You can search for projects by a specific theme, project name or the researcher’s name. Syke project search ...

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......

Syke LCA research produces science-based knowledge that helps different stakeholders to act. For example, policy makers to do more sustainable decisions, citizen to do better consumption choices and ...

The aim of the committee is to develop a usable and acceptable method for identifying forest areas important for biodiversity and to produce openly available map with this method. Our objective is to...

New report on micropollutants in BSR wastewater treatment plants Authors:  Lauri Äystö, Finnish Environment Institute, lauri.aysto(at)syke.fi Dmitry Frank-Kamenetsky, HELCOM secretaria...

What´s new in Baltic Sea Pharma Platform? Authors: Lauri Äystö and Noora Perkola, Finnish Environment Institute, BalticPharma(at)syke.fi During spring 2021, the Baltic Sea Pharma Platfo...

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......

Poll on BSR Pharma activities in 2024 PharmaSea: Which are the environmentally hazardous pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea? Interreg BSR Project APRIORA – prioritising pharmaceutical...

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......

The Baltic Sea Pharma Platform (BSR Pharma) is a flagship under the PA Hazards of EUSBSR. The BSR Pharma brings together projects and stakeholders from the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) t...

The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, together with a wide range of experts, is preparing a proposal for a new habitat monitoring system. If implemented, monitoring would significantly improve the ...

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......