© Riku Lumiaro Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) strives to be a good workplace for everyone. Syke aims to be an organisation where no one is discriminated against on the basis of...

  PAPILLONS is an EU Horizon2020 funded project on micro and nano-plastics (MNP) resulting from the use of agricultural plastics in soil. PAPILLONS maps the occurrence of microp...

Our society is facing environmental problems of increasing complexity, such as climate change, urbanisation and global challenges related to sustainable development. In order to resolve these burning...

Call for papers to the DigiDecarbon project's final workshop in Helsinki! Closes on May 31st, 2024. The “demand side” of the market, actions by citizens as consumers and producers of to low-ca...

SYKE has long contributed to the development of the Barents area through various projects such as the EU-funded Action on Black Carbon in the Arctic (EUA-BCA) contributing to the development of c...

The draft National Water Strategy highlights several pressing challenges that need to be taken into account when developing water sector in Tajikistan. In the field of water quality monitoring the ma...

Green transition creates new pressures to land use in the Barents region. The project aims to promote biodiversity conversation and knowledge to support sustainble green transition.  T...

Youth camps 17– 21 July 2023: International Biodiversity and Climate camp Camping Milleri, Salacgrīva, Latvia Participants: Young people from Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania Or...

31 July– 5 August 2023: International Baltic Sea camp Tvärminne zoological station, Hanko, Finland Participants: Young people from Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania The BALTICITIES...

The Baltic Sea Science Congress 2023: Full Programme The programme has been published on 28 June.  Please note, that program is still subject to changes. FULL PROGRAM ONL...

Background Eutrophication of lakes results from excessive increase in nutrient concentrations, often phosphorus. Eutrophication weakens the ecological status of lakes, threatens the species depe...

Project background and objectives Data-driven approach for development of recycling ecosystem and advanced modelling of environmental performance (DREAM) -project is a part of SPIRIT programme t...

The Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) has acted as the national environmental reference laboratory since 2001 according to the Finnish Environmental Protection Act (527/2014). As the reference lab...

    Baltic Seashore Stories is a campaign organized by the Finnish Environment Institute and BALTICITIES project partners to raise awareness about the Baltic Sea environmen...

© Photos: Ilkka Lastumäki During 2023 the Finnish national research vessel Aranda opens doors to the public  in its home town Helsinki, Finland, and in three coastal cities: Klaipe...

During this project, Finnish Environment Institute will assess the environmental impacts of the new process technology as well as the wider system-level impacts of micro-mobility in cities. The proje...