Proftest Syke organize a proficiency test (PT) for the analysis of alkalinity, conductivity, colour, N NH4 , N NO2+NO3 , N tot , P PO4 , P tot , and pH in wastewaters. The purpose of this pr...

The study estimated the amounts of ozone depleting substances and climate- warming F-gases in used and decommisioned appliances and structures, i.e. ”gas banks”, as well as the emissions from them. ...

Proftest Syke will organize a proficiency test (PT) for the laboratories conducting analysis of PAH and PCB compounds and oil hydrocarbons in contaminated soil. The purpose of this proficiency ...

Proftest Syke will organize a macroinvertebrate taxonomic proficiency test (ZOO 12/2024) in November 2024 – January 2025. The test consists of three parts of which participants may select the tes...

  Background The marine environment is exposed to a vast array of “legacy” and “emerging” contaminants in various combinations. When examined individually they rarely exceed acc...

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...

Source: Syke’s Image bank/ Jussi Leppänen Nordic emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollution impact the climate, the natural environment, public health and the wider e...

  CLIMATE-NUDGE utilizes knowledge from behavioural sciences, especially nudging, in planning choice architecture to help communities and individuals choose environmentall...

Project IDEALE is an Academy of Finland fellowship project lead by Dr. Paula Kivimaa, Research Professor in Climate and Society, in SYKE’s Climate Change Programme. (Decision numbers 322667, 328...

Figure 1. The DIWA co-operation, societal and economic impact (left) with the HYDRO-RI Platform infra with autonomous and remotely controlled survey and measuring platforms for studying hydrologi...

Poll on BSR Pharma activities in 2024  Baltic Sea Pharma Platform (BSR Pharma) aims to disseminate current knowledge and information on pharmaceuticals in the environment, focusing on eff...

Ongoing projects Horizon Europe Horizon 2020 LIFE+ IPN LIFE SIP LIFE IP Interreg Programme EEA ERDF / European Regional Development Fund (In Finnis...

The GSGF in Finland — Integration of geospatial and statistical information in Finland (GSFI) project takes the next step after the GEOSTAT 4 project by adapting the GSGF Europe to the Finnish contex...

EU legislation to reduce the risk of pharmaceuticals in the environment Authors:  Lauri Äystö, Finnish Environment Institute, lauri.aysto(at)syke.fi; Noora Perkola, Finnish Environment...

Background Nitrous oxide (N 2 O) is a powerful greenhouse gas that is naturally produced and partly consumed by the microbial processes nitrification, denitrification, nitrifier denitrification,...

The Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and ResourceLoop Oy will together study the current status and future perspectives of plastics recycling and markets of secondary plastics in Finland. The st...

GOVAQUA News and Events: New policy brief: Building water resilience: towards better implementation of ecological flows and water allocation in Europe GOVAQUA at Europe-INBO confere...

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...

CBD negotiations in Montreal, December 2022. © Kaisa Pietilä Goal The overall aim of the CO-OP4CBD project is to enhance coordination of European Union support to advance th...