© Riku Lumiaro / YHAn kuvapankki The objective of Work Package 2 of Plan4Blue “Environmental management” is to advance sustainable, resource efficient and environmentally safe blue g......

© Feodor Gurvits The Blue Growth is high on the agenda of the EU, and there is a specific Sustainable Blue Growth Agenda for the Baltic Sea Region. Focus in the Baltic Sea Region is pla......

Ongoing projects Horizon 2020 Research DG: 7. Framework programme LIFE IP LIFE+ Interreg Programme 2014-2020 (BSR, Central Baltic, Europe, Northern Periphery) ...

  Step 1. Stocktaking, October 2016 – March 2017   Kick-off meeting / December 2016 (Helsinki, Finland). Kick-off program...

SYKE provides valuable expertise in environmental policy-making and administration as well as advanced research and monitoring techniques also internationally. SYKE's experts participate ...

The project will mainly work towards increasing the capacity of Kyrgyz environmental authorities in order for them to be able to determine POP compounds (Persistent Organic Pollutants) from water, se...

© Vilma Hakala Work Package 4 of Plan4Blue organises a participatory process to turn the Blue Growth scenarios (Work Package 1) and results of socioeconomic (Work Package 1) and environ......

© Tuula Palaste The maritime spatial planning (MSP) process requires diverse information about marine areas. Most of this information can be stored and analyzed as spatial data. The ......

Background Extending from the Baltic Sea to the Arctic Ocean, the Green Belt includes valuable natural areas in Finland, Russia and Norway. Its core is made up of national parks and other prot...

Myanmar is undergoing industrialisation and urbanisation at a rapid pace. According to an assessment conducted by the Finnish Environment Institute, it is important to develop basic functions of Myanm......

Project Description The importance of geospatial information and its essential role in the sustainable development has been widely recognised and raised interest towards nation-specific infra...

An international agreement was made in Paris to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decades. However, a recent study shows that the current Finnish wood bioeconomy fails to m......

Project Description The Overall Objective (intended long-term impact) of the Project was improved environmental governance in terms of enhanced service delivery of DEA by simplifying the environ...

Project description The European Commission's Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE) concluded the service contract for assembling marine data, metadata and data produc...

Project Description The Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) assigned in April 2009 a team of experts to formulate a strategy to steer the Finnish support in water sector in the EECCA coun...

Project Description The overall objective of the cooperation was to improve the status of waters and water ecology and minimize the negative effects of climate change in Georgia. The immediate p...

Water sampling in Vientiane Province. Photo: Ms Tran Thi Kim Yen Programme description The Environmental Management Support Programme (EMSP) was a comprehensive capacity building pro...

Tea farming capacity exceeds the processing capacity and tea leaves need to be exported to India. Boilers are usually burning humid firewood or coal resulting in high emissions. Photo: Lauri Katt...

Project description The Project was financed through the Institutional Cooperation Instrument (ICI) the purpose of which is to strengthen the capacity of public sector institutions in partner co...

Ongoing and current projects can be viewed in this page. Projects in bold are ongoing. Please note that the projects are in reverse chronological order. Asia & Caucasus ...