Velmu's document archive, containing publications in Finnish, Swedish and English, is maintained in the Finnish web pages ("Suomeksi" link below)....

Velmu collects data on the occurrence of underwater marine biotopes, species and communities in Finland’s marine waters. The programme contributes to the Baltic marine protection and to the sust...

The External Advisory Board provides advice and consultation to GOVAQUA on key questions ensuring relevance and accuracy of the project’s results.  Members: Dr. Josefina Maestu , ...

Water is everybody´s business. GOVAQUA aims to engage the many actors, decision makers and interest groups in the water field in the development of innovative governance instruments and approach...

This work package houses the six GOVAQUA living labs, where a representative and complementary set of innovative water governance approaches and instruments will be further developed, piloted, c...

Finnish Environment Institute, Finland Coordinator, main contact,  Consortium co-lead Suvi Sojamo (suvi.sojamo@syke.fi) Consortium co-lead Antti Belinskij (antti.belinsk...

The results of GOVAQUA project will include:  Good practice repository  Transition pathways  Assessment tools   Online academy  Publications...

Transition to sustainable water governance (Work Package 1) This work package defines, assesses and advances the transition towards more sustainable water governance in Europe, at multiple level...

  Background The marine environment is exposed to a vast array of “legacy” and “emerging” contaminants in various combinations. When examined individually they rarely exceed acc...

CBD negotiations in Montreal, December 2022. © Kaisa Pietilä Goal The overall aim of the CO-OP4CBD project is to enhance coordination of European Union support to advance th...

Photo: The Ministry of the Environment   The new national built environment information system (Ryhti) gathers data related to construction and zoning. The system will have two ...

The overall objective of this Horizon Europe funded project (HORIZON-INFRA-2022-EOSC-01) is to develop a virtual environment equipped with FAIR multi-disciplinary data and services to support marine ...

GOVAQUA News and Events: New policy brief: Water resilience is built with better water governance Join in!  Register for our webinar on 13 June 2024 on innovative water governan...

Background In Finland, groundwater comprises 65 % of the household water distributed by waterworks. Groundwater is typically covered only with thin soil layers; this enables the migration of har...

FACTOR explores how citizen deliberation can facilitate just and informed climate transition. FACTOR analyzes various obstacles for an agreement regarding climate justice, including individual...

Abstract submission for the BSSC2023 has been closed. The congress features a four-day scientific program with thematic keynotes by invitation (30 min) as well as presentations (15 min) and po...

Baltic Sea Science Congress 2023 banquet will be held in the evening of 23 August starting at 19:00. The banquet takes place in the beautiful restaurant Sipuli , which is housed in a historic red br...

Russian teachers visiting Naure house Villa Elfvik in Espoo, Finland. © Photo: Eija Rantajärvi CLIWATE-project promotes environmental education between Finland and Baltic states....

BSSC2023 organizers have negotiated quotas with several hotels, which have pre-reserved rooms for BSSC2023 participants. All the below mentioned hotels are centrally located and within a walking dist...

The aim of the project is to assess the impacts of the European Commission's Green Claims initiative in Finland and to support the working group in the field of green claims. The project will produce...