SYKE to become a carbon neutral organization by 2017 We will reduce emissions of the research vessel Aranda into the air We will reduce total carbon dioxide emissions of travelling ...

Mission statement The loss of aquatic biodiversity and associated Ecosystem Services is one of the most pressing problems on Earth. Sophisticated biomonitoring programs have been established t...

SYKE is a multidisciplinary research and expert institute. Our most important task is to solve society's most burning questions that have an impact on the environment. The ...

CIRCWASTE is a seven-year LIFE IP project that promotes efficient use of material flows, waste prevention and new waste and resource management concepts. All actions contribute to implementing the na...

Oil recovery vessel during KEMI-Arctic 2015 Exercise – Unmanned Aerial vehicles were demonstrated in this Exercise UAV-ARCTIC in brief The goal of this project is to define suitable ...

Shortcut: http://syke.fi/groundwaterchecklist The Groundwater checklist is a groundwater protection tool for use by companies, government agencies, consultants and researchers. It compris...

Urban Zone 3 project is dealing with the future development of the urban form in Finnish urban regions. Travel-related urban zone method is applied in various planning cases of different-sized Finnis...

Introduction The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) had for several years looked for possibilities for having its office premises and laboratories in the same place, rather than spread ove...

VACCIA project’s synthesis report Bergström I. et al. (eds.) 2011. Ekosysteemipalvelut ja elinkeinot - haavoittuvuus ja sopeutuminen muuttuvaan ilmastoon. VACCIA-hankkeen yhteenveto...

Latest events Final Seminar of the WINOIL project was held in St. Petersburg, Russia in 30th September 2014. After the seminar, the project group will have the closing meeting in 1st November, a...

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Facebook We publish interesting environmental news and events on SYKE’s Facebook . In addition to that SYKE provides contents from different topics and projects to many Facebook pages: ...

SYKE employs approximately 600 skilled and committed professionals. Our job is to protect the environment and to apply cross-disciplinary research and competence to problem-solving. We ...

Are you a natural scientist with extensive networks and good language skills? Or perhaps you hold a university degree in engineering and have experience in project work? Are you looking for a meaning...

Pollution prevention controls include the environmental permits required by law for certain activities. Different kinds of permits are granted by various environmental authorities, including Finla...

The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) takes responsibility for the environmental impacts of its own acitivities. SYKE also wants to set example on measures in reducing the environmental burden ...