River Rakkolanjoki. © Eija Rantajärvi. At the beginning of 2021, researchers from the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE and experts from the City of Lappeenranta conducted a citizen......

River Virojoki. © Eija Putkuri. As part of the SEVIRA-project, SYKE's researchers and experts from the municipalities of Virolahti and Miehikkälä carried out a public survey regardin......

The Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, together with a wide range of experts, is preparing a proposal for a new habitat monitoring system. If implemented, monitoring would significantly improve the ...

River Rakkolanjoki. Photo: Merja Pulkkanen. SEVIRA project organized a third virtual workshop for Finnish and Russian hydrologists remotely on May 25, 2021. The topics workshop covered we......

Ljudmila Vesikko. The Aleksanteri Institute organized from 10 to 11 May, 2021.a National Aleksanteri Forum. Ljudmila Vesikko, project coordinator of the SEVIRA project from the Finnish ......

Discharge measurements with ADCP-profiler and MF Pro-device in the River Rakkolanjoki. © Pekka Vähänäkki. SEVIRA-project arranged a field measurement campaign with discharge measurem......

SEVIRA team in the joint expedition. Photo: Ecocentrum. SEVIRA-project was represented in the joint expedition of the Ecocentrum and Friends of the Baltic with the partners: the Institute......

e-shape is a unique initiative that brings together decades of public investment in Earth Observation and in cloud capabilities into services for the decision-makers, the citizens, the industry and t...

MAIA aims to promote the mainstreaming of natural capital accounting in EU Member States and Norway. In MAIA, we use the United Nations System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Account...

Finnish Environment Institute SYKE is starting more than ten new EU projects this year. The projects tackle a wide range of questions, including ecosystem accounting, microplastics in agricultural lan......

Ongoing projects Horizon 2020 Research DG: 7. Framework programme LIFE IP LIFE + Interreg Programme 2014-2020 (Baltic Sea Region, Seed money, Central Baltic, Botnia-...

SEVIRA-project participated in XXI International Environmental Forum "Baltic Sea Day" in St Petersburg. Dr. Sergey Kondratyev (ILRAS) gave a presentation of the preliminary results of the ENI-CBC -fu......

The Finnish and Russian hydrologists of the SEVIRA project held a second virtual workshop remotely on February 24, 2021. In this virtual event, presentations were given on Russian peatland h......

The research consortium CHAMPS studies the potential impacts of climate change on health, with a focus on three interrelated topics: The first relates to mental health impacts associa...

The FINSCAPES project aims to develop new integrated scenarios of socioeconomic and climate change during the 21st century for use in climate change research and policy making in Finland. In c...

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...

  The SEVIRA-project realizes surveys and interviews for Finnish and Russian citizens of the state of local waters and how to improve water quality. In Finland two large surveys......

SEVIRA hydrologists held first virtual workshop on Nov 17th. There were presentations and discussing e.g. data quality control practices and effects of covid-19 situation on hydrological monitoring in......

The SEVIRA-project’s coastal water quality monitoring task for this season were realized as planned. There were two sampling cruises in both countries at the same time in June and August. Sampling wer......

SEVIRA-project arranged a field measurement campaign with the discharge measurement specialists both from the Southeast Finland ELY-centre and Finnish Environment Institute SYKE in October 27th, 2020.......