PlastLIFE  SIP – Re-thinking plastics in a sustainable circular economy project promotes the implementation of the Plastics Roadmap for Finland (PRfF) during seven years, 2023–2029. The ultimate...

© Elise Järvenpää Background In 2019 the European Commission formulated the “European Green Deal”, a roadmap of key policies, legislative proposals, and strategies to implement ...

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...

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 D...

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 (Ryhti) gathers data related to construction and zoning. The system will have two ...

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...

Objectives and targets of Finnish Environment Institute’s (Syke) environmental programme 2022–2025 Mitigation of adverse environmental impacts caused by Syke’s activities We will reduce...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an established method to simultaneously quantify multiple environmental impacts arising from the whole value chain including all processes related to the life cycle of ...

Finnish Environment Institute's research results are published in international and national scientific publication series and also in professional and general-interest publications. In addition, we ...

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...

Poll on BSR Pharma activities in 2024 PharmaSea: Which are the environmentally hazardous pharmaceuticals in the Baltic Sea? Interreg BSR Project APRIORA – prioritising pharmaceutical...

The project Highly Optimized Energy Systems (HOPE) is established to support the industry actors to develop solutions to increase energy efficiency within energy networks and advance cross-sectoral i...

The Baltic Sea Pharma Platform (BSR Pharma) is a flagship under the PA Hazards of EUSBSR. The BSR Pharma brings together projects and stakeholders from the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) t...

The financing for the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) comes from the state budget and from external sources. In 2023, Syke’s operating financing came to approximately 74.0 million...

KATOA: Dust nuisances from streets and roads: Monitoring, Management and evaluation of the effectiveness of road dust emission reduction measures Objectives: Continue research on sour...

The most common infill material used in the constructions of artificial football turfs is styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) granulate. Evaluations from other Nordic countries suggest that artificial tur...

Background The New Urban Agenda (NUA) was adopted at the United Nations Conference Habitat III in Quito 2016 to guide sustainable urban development. It supports the implementation of the Ag...

Finnish Environment Institute’s (Syke) management team is responsible for Syke’s management system. The management team assesses the appropriateness and suitability of Syke’s activities and managemen...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a widely accepted methodological approach for assessing the environmental impacts of products and services over their life cycle and it is incr...