R/V Aranda is the third research vessel carrying the name with pride, and the fourth proper research vessel in the history of Finnish marine research. The first vessel built for research purposes was...

      Research Vessel Aranda Aranda is a modern, ice-reinforced research vessel. She was planned and built for Bal...

In the TEAQUILA project we will focus on improving the state of aquatic ecosystems by controlling the load of terminal electron acceptors (TEAs), besides decreasing nutrient loading. The analysis of ...

Facing the mitigation and adaptation challenges of ongoing climate change, PLUMES (Pathways linking uncertainties in model projections of climate and its effects) aims towards a significantly improv...

INOGOV will create a new network of scholars and practitioners that have operated in a fragmented way thus far, specifically those that have focused on the ‘sources’ of policy innovation,...

Photo: Panu Söderström Objectives The study focuses on differences and similarities of land use, regional and urban structures and transport systems of Helsinki and Stockholm metropol...

Agricultural production needs to become sustainable. Currently prevalent agricultural practices cause not only significant environmental impacts but are in need of change in order to guarantee adequa...

The magnitude of climate change is considered to be dependent on the atmospheric load of the two most important greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and methane (CH 4 ). The terrestrial biospher...

Partners   Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, France (coordinator); ITTI Sp. z o.o., Poland; Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V., Germany; THALES SA, France; C...

POLICYMIX analysed economic instruments for biodiversity conservation in a mix of operational conservation policy instruments. To this end, POLICYMIX developed an integrated evaluation framework that...

The Trap project was a 3-year joint venture (2008–2010) analyzing the effect of gypsum, an industrial by-product, on phosphorus losses from fields to surface waters (Ekholm et al. 2011, 2012). SYKE w...

Intellectual models and sustainable nature use know-how will be implemented within the project in pilot areas of the Green Belt of Fennoscandia (GBF). Also, innovative approaches to promote the effic...

How to improve resource effective implementation of WFD in Nordic countries   19 March 2014 The City of Oulu, Finland The Nordic WFD Conference was held ...

Description A new biological method based on basidiomycetous fungi is developed for bioremediation of soil contaminated by recalcitrant organic compounds. University of Helsinki, Helsinki Univer...

Background Contamination of both soil and groundwater with pesticides is an increasing global problem. In India the annual consumption of atrazine amounts to 340 MT. In Finland and in most ...

The object of the project is to evaluate the possibilities of policy instruments targeting to food, housing and personal transport in climate change mitigation. Additionally other environmental impac...

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...

Background and objectives The general objective of the research is to investigate how climate change will affect water resources and their use in Finland. The work is relevant for different ...

Project description Light pollution is artificial light that causes adverse effects to the functioning of ecosystems or to human health or well-being. Light pollution - a serious environment...