Photo: Pirjo Ferin. SYKE collects long-term observations of river, lake, and groundwater water quality. The monitoring of inland waters began in the 1960s. Hydrological monitoring...

Photo: Seppo Knuuttila Our activities are organised into projects that involve producing information for decision-making needs and to ensure protection and sustainable use of water systems. ...

The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) began its operations 20 years ago in March 1995. In the same year, Finland joined the EU. “By virtue of Finland’s EU membership, SYKE was able to take part in ......

Finland, Estonia and Russia have conducted an exceptionally extensive survey of the Gulf of Finland, covering the entire sea area as part of the Gulf of Finland Year 2014....

Scientific articles on bioenergy written by Finnish researchers have gained exceptionally good visibility in the international science community. They are cited, downloaded and used extensively in, fo......

In the event calendar, we announce events, seminars, and webinars that we organize together with our partners and in various projects. You can read more about the paid and free training sessions...

The Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) organises training and consultation days related to the management of the Ministry of the Environment, Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Env...

. Photo: Hannu Vallas, Lentokuva Vallas Oy Researchers are needed to identify solutions and to assess various alternatives in support of decision-making in society. With our expertise, ...

Shortcut: http://www.syke.fi/projects/conpat Background Freshwaters are important sources of life in innumerable ways. We need freshwaters for fishing, irrigation, production of ...

Summary In this project we aim to develop and build a pilot scale, tubular photobioreactor for growing microalgae in Vietnam. The reactor will use wastewater with high concentration of nutrients...

Summary In this project we will develop and test an algal turf scrubber under Finnish summer conditions. A community of algae will be grown in a biofilm on the turf scrubber and we will invest...

Summary Biodiversity is an important factor for the stability and functioning of ecosystems. Biodiversity at the population level may functionally replace the stabilizing role of species dive...

Load of organic matter to the Baltic Sea has been identified as the second greatest environmental pressure both in the Bothnian Bay and in the Gulf of Finland by the HELCOM Holistic Assessment. The p...