Strengthening water quality monitoring and assessment in Colombia (COFI-Water)
The project “Strengthening water quality monitoring and assessment in Colombia (COFI-Water)” is a joint initiative between IDEAM and Syke. The collaboration aims to enhance IDEAM’s capacities to plan,...
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Hazardous industrial chemicals in the IED BREFs (HAZBREF)
The Industrial Emissions Directive is the main instrument on the EU level to control hazardous substances that are released from industrial sites. However, its reference documents, or BREFs, currently...
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Planner's Carbon Tool - Carbon Map (Hiilikartta)
The main goal of the Hiilikartta project is to support municipalities and regional councils in the assessment of the climate impacts of planning as required by law. The project produces a GIS-based we...
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Finnish material flow analysis and scenario work on the use of natural resources in support of circular economy agreement
The aim of the project is to promote the capacity to monitor the objectives of the Strategic Programme for Circular Economy and to strengthen the knowledge base of various actors (industry association...
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Leveraging sustainability transformation (LEVERAGE)
LEVERAGE project aims to identify and showcase various systemic changes that support the impact of SYKE research on sustainability transformation. In the project, potential leverage points on sustaina...
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Bioassays as tools for assessing the safety of sewage sludge-based fertilizer use - harmful substances and microplastics under observation (BIOLTA)
The aims of this project are
- Identifying the most appropriate bioassay methods to investigate the adverse effects of sewage sludge-based fertilizers
- Examining the concentrations, bioavailability...
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Northern marine litter – developing research and stakeholder cooperation in the Baltic Sea and the Arctic (POMERO)
The POMERO project investigates the occurrence and effects of marine litter in the Baltic Sea and the Arctic region, and strengthens international cooperation, networking and the participation of Finn...
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CircVol 2 6Aika project: Utilization of high-volume side streams and masses of soil in cities
The project encourages reusing and utilizing recycled materials in civil and urban construction. The aim is to save valuable and finite natural resources and to reduce the carbon footprint in civil co...
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Paludiculture as a climatically sustainable solution for growing media production
Our aim is to examine climate impacts of the field-to-greenhouse production chain of growing media produced from common reed and reed canary grass grown on wet peat fields (i.e. paludiculture). The pr...
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Blue Carbon Habitats – a comprehensive mapping of Nordic salt marshes for estimating Blue Carbon storage potential –a pilot study
Project will utilize satellite imagery to map reed belts in pilot areas in Finland, and Sweden and validate them against in situ data. In addition, a roadmap for extending the analysis over the whole ...
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Effects of ultrasonic control of cyanobacteria on plankton community (UltraPlan)
UltraPlan project investigates the ability of an ultrasound-producing raft to control cyanobacterial blooms and the raft’s effects on phytoplankton and zooplankton communities as well as on water qual...
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Baltic Blue Biotechnology Alliance+ to support blue biotechnology
The Alliance+ extension project aims to open the Alliance network to blue biotechnology actors beyond the reach of the limited partnership of the Alliance main stage project. The Alliance+ will theref...
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BlueBioSites Seed Money project – Data, information and tools to identify and monitor optimal sites for the Blue Bioeconomy in the Baltic Sea Region
BlueBioSites Seed Money project aims to develop a ‘large scale’ project with the objective to create a Baltic Sea wide effective system for the identification and monitoring of sustainable Blue Bioeco...
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Copernicus Assisted Lake Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service (WQeMS)
The objective of this Horizon 2020 project is to provide an operational Water Quality Emergency Monitoring Service to the water utilities industry in relation with the quality of the ‘water we drink’ ...
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Developing pilot accounts for marine, freshwater and urban ecosystems and packaging materials (ENVECOPACK)
2020-FI-ENVECOPACK was a two-year research project co-financed by Eurostat and led by Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) in partnership with Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke). The project h...
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Comprehensive assessment of climate measures in catchments - with system analysis towards carbon-neutral land use (SysteemiHiili)
SysteemiHiili project aims to improve the methodological capacity and understanding of the impact chains and overall impacts of land use change, and to support the introduction of climate-wise, sustai...
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The discharge and environmental impacts of SBR granules from artificial turfs (TEKONURMI)
In the TEKONURMI project, the amount of SBR granule emissions from artificial turfs and the importance of the different routes of the granules are studied. The effects of SBR exposure on terrestrial i...
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Circular Design Network (CircDNet)
The main objectives of the CircDNet-project are: to enable circular design and new transformative concepts via data, knowledge and system understanding, to bring scientific data to industrial and comm...
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CONSOLCA – an LCA consolidation project
The CONSOLCA project aims to consolidate SYKE’s practical LCA skills, develop new, and improve existing, LCA internal operational standards, identify new knowledge on emerging issues in LCA from acros...
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Research for sustainability transformations – Strengthening critical reflection and methodological capacities across disciplines (REFLECT)
Research for sustainability transformations – Strengthening critical reflection and methodological capacities across disciplines (REFLECT)
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