EnLIGHTening future Schools to deliver BLUE Sustainability in Europe (BlueLightS)
Published: 2024-03-19
The BlueLights project aims to strengthen blue education, which involves marine and water literacy, in Europe by incorporating it into school education. The expansion of blue education supports the o...
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EnLIGHTening future Schools to deliver BLUE Sustainability in Europe (BlueLightS)
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Improving capacity for SDG Monitoring with Earth Observation (EOSDG)
Published: 2024-03-15
EOSDG logo © Syke
In Finland, reporting responsibilities of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals indicators of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development have been deleg...
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06-2024 Natural water II
Published: 2024-03-14
Proftest Syke will organize a proficiency test (PT) for the analysis of oxygen, chlorophyll a, salinity, SiO 2 , TIC and TOC in natural waters.
The purpose of this proficiency test is t...
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APRIORA – Improved Risk Assessment for Strategic Water Management to Reduce Micro-Pollutant Emissions in the Baltic Sea Region
Published: 2024-03-11
The project APRIORA aims to help prioritize urban wastewater treatment plants for enhanced micropollutant removal. The goal of the project is to produce a toolbox combining monitoring, modelli...
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APRIORA – Improved Risk Assessment for Strategic Water Management to Reduce Micro-Pollutant Emissions in the Baltic Sea Region
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Digital Waters Flagship (DIWA) & Doctoral education pilot
Published: 2024-03-11
Figure 1. The DIWA co-operation, societal and economic impact (left) with the HYDRO-RI Platform infra with autonomous and remotely controlled survey and measuring platforms for studying hydrologi...
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Final event
Published: 2024-03-11
The BALTICITIES final event
22-23 May 2024, in Liepāja, Latvia.
Liepāja is a city in western Latvia located on the Baltic Sea. Thanks to the constant sea breeze the city of...
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Models and tools
Published: 2024-03-11
Several different kinds of tools are used in Finnish Environmnet institute (Syke) to assess and forecast the state of the environment. In a large perspective they can be called mathematical models. M...
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Other effective area-based conservation measures (OECM)
Published: 2024-03-08
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Flood Centre
Published: 2024-03-05
Flood Centre is a joint service of the Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and the Finnish Meteorological Institute. They operate closely with the regional Centres for economic development...
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Transition to a clean energy system (REPower-CEST)
Published: 2024-03-05
Objectives
Clean Energy System Transition (REPower-CEST) project has three main objectives:
To create a comprehensive view of the solutions, impacts, implementation challenges and oppor...
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Gypsum amendment of agricultural fields as a collaboration form in improving the state of the Baltic Sea (NordGypsum)
Published: 2024-02-28
The NordGypsum project deepens the cooperation that was started in 2019-2021 in the project "Improving the water quality of the Baltic Sea with gypsum treatment of fields - Gypsum Initiative" impleme...
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Gypsum amendment of agricultural fields as a collaboration form in improving the state of the Baltic Sea (NordGypsum)
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Paludiculture as a climatically sustainable solution for growing media production (Kasvua)
Published: 2024-02-28
Increasing consumer interest in vegetables and sustainable food will lead to a need to expand gr...
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Paludiculture as a climatically sustainable solution for growing media production (Kasvua)
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05-2024 Metals analysis
Published: 2024-02-26
Proftest Syke will organize a proficiency test for the analysis of metals in ground waters and industrial wastewaters. The measurands for the synthetic sample, ground water and industrial wastewa...
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Mitigating the impacts of climate change on biodiversity in the Barents Region (BARIMS)
Published: 2024-02-26
The BARIMS project inventories key areas for biodiversity in the Barents region, or Northern Norway and Finnish and Swedish Lapland. The project also seeks ways of safeguarding the nature values and ...
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Mitigating the impacts of climate change on biodiversity in the Barents Region (BARIMS)
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Building a resilient ecological network of conserved areas across Europe for nature and people (NaturaConnect)
Published: 2024-02-21
NaturaConnect aims to design and develop a blueprint for a truly coherent Trans-European Nature Network (TEN-N) of conserved areas that reaches the targets of the Biodiversity strategy for 2030 commi...
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Building a resilient ecological network of conserved areas across Europe for nature and people (NaturaConnect)
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Utilization of acid sulfate soils (SmartASS)
Published: 2024-02-21
Background
Due to climate change, the structure/infrastructure sector has recently paid more attention to more sustainable construction works/solutions, among others by using ...
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Utilization of acid sulfate soils (SmartASS)
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Published: 2024-02-13
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Publications
Published: 2024-02-13
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LCA research in Syke
Published: 2024-02-12
Syke LCA research produces science-based knowledge that helps different stakeholders to act. For example, policy makers to do more sustainable decisions, citizen to do better consumption choices and ...
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News and Events
Published: 2024-01-31
Press releases:
Tackling Europe´s water problems requires new ways of governance (Press release, Finnish Environment Institute 19.6.2023, sttinfo.fi)
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Governance innovations for a transition to sustainable and equitable water use in Europe GOVAQUA
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