Background The New Urban Agenda (NUA) was adopted at the United Nations Conference Habitat III in Quito 2016 to guide sustainable urban development. It supports the implementation of the Ag...

Finnish Environment Institute’s (Syke) management team is responsible for Syke’s management system. The management team assesses the appropriateness and suitability of Syke’s activities and managemen...

Project background and objectives With increasing environmental pressures and decreasing resources, we need a transition to a circular economy. When enabling and speeding up circular tran...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a widely accepted methodological approach for assessing the environmental impacts of products and services over their life cycle and it is incr...

The objective of SEDOS is to develop, implement and validate snow cover/extent product and the prototype system for their production covering Europe, as a preparative actin for the future EUMETSAT ME...

Project description Taxa Identification with Machine Learning Enhanced by DNA Metabarcoding (TIMED) proposes combining DNA metabarcoding and optical machine learning in a novel interleaved way t...

Operational management group Mr Leif Schulman , director general (chairman) Ms Eeva Primmer , research director Ms Heli Karjalainen , service development director Ms Terhi Wa...

At the moment, copper pipes are not allowed in domestic water networks in eco-labelled houses according to the Swan label. The criteria are the same in all Nordic countries. Dissenting views have bee...

Snow_cci project focuses on generation of homogeneous multi-sensor time series for the main parameters of global snow cover focusing on snow extent and snow water equivalent. To accomplish this, reli...

Objectives Mixed use development refers to a practice where more than one type of activity, such as housing, jobs or services are assigned to the same building, groups of buildings, or area. ...

The main objective of the SnowPEx project is to perform the intercomparison and validation of publicly available global/regional remotely sensed snow products (Snow Cover Extent, Snow Water Equivalen...

Anthropogenic activities threaten biodiversity at global, regional and local scales. Addressing this situation requires knowledge of the main mechanisms underlying biodiversity patterns. While the th...

Tel (switchboard): +358 295 251 000 E-mail: firstname.surname@syke.fi Syke's visiting and mailing address and business ID Latokartanonkaari 11, 00790 Helsinki Business ID: 09961...

© Maija Airos The advisory board has been appointed by the Ministry of the Environment until 31.12.2026. The advisory board evaluates environmental research and development, sup...

Main office, Viikki campus, Building D, Helsinki Laboratory Centre , Viikki campus, Kaaritalo, Helsinki Marine Research Laboratory, Viikki campus, Building EE, Helsi...

Background and aims Rivers developed for hydropower production are important part of electricity supply with increasing role as a balancing power source in energy systems worldwide. Regulated ri...

Background River Oulujoki is one of the largest rivers in Northern Finland and is intensively used in hydroelectric power production. The Oulujoki watershed reaches from the eastern Finnish bord...

NeAs project brochures © Anu Eskelinen (GTK) Shortcut:  www.syke.fi/projects/neas NeAs project brochure (pdf, 3780 kB) As removal report Video on groundwater ...

Short address:  syke.fi/projects/DRYvER Background Rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands and other aquatic environments are among the world’s most biodiverse ecosystems. They are also thos...

The formation as well as the mitigation measures of street dust have been extensively studied in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area for several years. However, the results and lessons learned from these ...