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BIONEXT will develop knowledge, tools, and guidance for mainstreaming biodiversity into policy making and provide concrete options on how to initiate, accelerate and upscale biodiversity relev...

  Proftest SYKE will organize a proficiency test for the analyses of  alkalinity, conductivity, colour, N NH4 , N NO2+NO3 , N tot , P PO4 , P tot  and pH in wastewaters. ...

Traditional analyzes of monitoring data using a light microscope require long experience and good species identification skills. It can be difficult or even impossible to identify species with...

Proftest SYKE will organize a proficiency test for the analysis of metals and mercury in wastewaters and in fly ash. The measurands for the synthetic sample, municipal wastewater and industrial w...

Background In April 2021, Finnish Government set a resolution on the Strategic Programme for Circular Economy . The basis of the resolution is a vision that Finnish economy will be based on a...

  Proftest SYKE provides an interlaboratory comparison for VOC thermodesorption measurements (ISO 16000‐6) from indoor air samples. The samples are prepared to Tenax TA thermodesorption...

  Proftest SYKE will organise the proficiency test for measurement of gross and net calorific value of fuels. The purpose of this proficiency test is to ensure the comparability an...

  Proftest SYKE will organize interlaboratory comparison for the analysis of AOX in natural water and pulp and paper industry wastewater. The purpose of this interlaboratory compar...

  Proftest SYKE will organize a proficiency test for the analysis of COD Mn , Fe, Mn, chloride, fluoride, sulphate, pH, conductivity, NH 4 , NO 2 , NO 3 , Ca, K, Mg, Na and hardness in ...

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 Dev...

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...

Photo: The Ministry of the Environment   The new national built environment information system (RYTJ) gathers data related to construction and zoning. The system will have two d...

Working with the built environment information system.   Currently, zoning data is not comprehensively and nationally available in Finland to guide the use and development of ar...

  Proftest SYKE will organize a proficiency test for the analysis of oxygen, chlorophyll  a , salinity, SiO 2 , TIC and TOC in natural waters. The purpose of this proficiency ...

Objectives and targets of SYKE’s environmental programme 2022–2025 Mitigation of adverse environmental impacts caused by SYKE’s activities We will reduce the environmental impacts of wo...

SYKE's research results are published in international and national scientific publication series and also in professional and general-interest publications. In addition, we publish brochures, books,...

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...

Chemical weapons were produced and used in a large scale during the World Wars. According to official records, at least 50,000 tonnes of chemical warfare agents (CWA) contained in bombs, shells and o...