The project tackles littering and improves waste management in rural villages in North Karelia, Finland, and the Karelian Republic, Russia. We encourage and support local residents, authorities and c...

The financing for the Finnish Environment Institute comes from the state budget and from external sources. In 2020, SYKE’s operating financing came to approximately 57,7 million e...

Finnish Environment Institute’s (SYKE) management system consists of the rules that guide SYKE’s activities as well as SYKE’s own policies, practices and guidelines. The purpose of the management sys...

SYKE’s management team is responsible for SYKE’s management system. The management team assesses the appropriateness and suitability of SYKE’s activities and management system on a regular basis. The...

© Unsplash To address the wicked sustainability problems of our time, actionable knowledge, co-created with multiple stakeholders and actors in societies, is needed. To meet these kn...

Mr Leif Schulman , Director General (chairman) Mr Petri Ahlroth , Director of the Biodiversity Centre Mr Tero Eklin , Director of Laboratory Ms Eeva Furman , Director of the Envir...

Tel (switchboard): +358 295 251 000 E-mail: firstname.surname@syke.fi SYKE's visiting and mailing address and business ID Latokartanonkaar...

Members of The Finnish Environment Institute´s advisory board 2020: In front row from the left Elina Nikkola, Eeva Primmer, Lea Kauppi, Markku Ollikainen, in middle row from t...

The European Environmental Evaluators Network (EEEN) Forum will be organised online on 4-5 November, 2020.The programme will focus on scientific and practical evaluation knowledge on the implementatio......

Main office, Viikki Campus, Building D, Helsinki Laboratory Centre , Viikki Campus, Kaaritalo, Helsinki Marine Research Laboratory, Viikki Campus, Building EE, H...

Vision 2030 Together with our partners and stakeholders we have succeeded in guiding society’s development onto a sustainable path. Mission statement The Finnish Environment...

Would changes in lake regulation rules and practices help you adapt to climate change impacts? Do you need to estimate changes in floods for planning purposes, for adaptation in dam safety or storm w......

Would flood risk management enable the identification of possible flood prone areas and assist in land use planning, rescue and communication? Flood risk mapping is a prerequisite for effective ......

Would automatic flood and drought warnings for lakes and rivers and warnings about snow load risk on large roof structures help your capability to adapt to hazardous unexpected weather situations? ......

Finnish Environment Institute SYKE has strong expertise in risk assessment concerning the influence of mining on natural waters. We draw up guidelines and develop tools for environmental risk and imp......

Do you need to forecast the influences of your operations on water flow or quality in rivers, lakes or coastal areas? Environment Institute SYKE offers modelling for calculating water quality an......

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...

  Exceptional 2020 For the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), 2020 was an exceptional year due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. To control the pandemic, the Finnish Govern...

Helsinki Office Laboratory Centre in Viikki Campus Kaaritalo. Visiting and mailing address: Finnish Environment Institute, Laboratory Centre, Mustialankatu 3, FI- 00790 Helsin...

The compatibility of Finnish and Russian monitoring data has been improved by taking samples together and comparing the countries' water quality analyzes. Here we are leaving for sampling for Lak...