Towards the end of the autumn, during Finland’s EU presidency, it will be decided whether to begin European Union accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania. These countries have implemen......

  CURRENT Recent articles:  Oinonen, I. & Paloniemi, R. 2024. Understanding and measuring young people’s sustainability actions . Journal of Enviro...

Oceans and Human Health Workshop is organised jointly by the project BONUS ROSEMARIE and the HORIZON 2020 project SOPHIE....

The compatibility of Finnish and Russian monitoring data has been improved by taking samples together and comparing the countries' water quality analyzes. Here we are leaving for sampling for Lak...

      Climate change amplifies existing risks and vulnerabilities in a globalised world. New risks are also emerging from complex cross-sectoral and multi-dimensi...

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

The ORSI research project develops steering practices that enable the transformation to a Finnish eco-welfare state with ecologically effective and societally legitimate measures.  The ob...

Goal of the project is to produce science-based information for strengthening the knowledge base for agricultural water protection and nutrient load regulation. We will examine the nutrient load from...

Director General, Professor Lea Kauppi from Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) has been nominated as a member of the Mission Board for Healthy Oceans, Seas, Coastal and Inland Waters for the Horizon......

Underwater nature of Zanzibar, Tanzania, is spectacular with its coral reefs, seagrass meadows and mangrove forests. Marine life is however facing severe threats as coastal zone is affected by increas......

  Newsletter 4 in September 2019 (pdf): In English /  In Estonian Newsletter 3 in June 2019 (pdf): In English /  In Estonian Newsletter 2...

Final conference 4–5 June 2019 Riitta Pöntynen, University of Turku "In the first session on blue economy and economic analysis, we focused on the drivers and the alternative future ...

Final conference 4–5 June 2019 Riku Varjopuro, Finnish Environment Institute “In the two sessions on cross-border collaboration we focussed especially in thinking of the next step...

Final conference 4–5 June 2019 Robert Aps, Estonian Marine Institute "During the session of “Ecosystem-based approach to MSP“ we discussed how ecosystem components should be taken in...

Final conference 4–5 June 2019 Conference programme (pdf, 1 MB) Remarks of Riku Varjopuro, project leader from Finnish Environment institute Riku Varjopuro, Finnish Environment I...

Final conference 4–5 June 2019 Harri Tolvanen, University of Turku “We discussed recent progress and future prospects for GIS in MSP. The session focused on knowledge creation by par...

The environmental awareness of the local public in the study area is increasing the Seleznevka (fin. Rakkolanjoki) and Virojoki Rivers due to the Water meets people – learn, act and influence SEVIRA f......

Of the three rivers examined by the SEVIRA project, the Sestra makes an especially interesting case, because there is no previous information of its water quality. The results from November 2018 – Apr......

From the April 2019 Institute of Limnology RAS has started to do a field study as a part of the project Water meets people – learn, act and influence SEVIRA....

Summarizing publications Plan4Blue on Twitter #Plan4Blue Recommendations for maritime spatial planning for sustainable blue economies (pdf, September 2019) Newsletter ...