Background In April 2021, Finnish Government set a resolution on the Strategic Programme for Circular Economy . The basis of the resolution is a vision that Finnish economy will be based on a...

  Proftest SYKE provides an interlaboratory comparison for VOC thermodesorption measurements (ISO 16000‐6) from indoor air samples. The samples are prepared to Tenax TA thermodesorption...

  Proftest SYKE will organise the proficiency test for measurement of gross and net calorific value of fuels. The purpose of this proficiency test is to ensure the comparability an...

  Proftest SYKE will organize interlaboratory comparison for the analysis of AOX in natural water and pulp and paper industry wastewater. The purpose of this interlaboratory compar...

  Proftest SYKE will organize a proficiency test for the analysis of COD Mn , Fe, Mn, chloride, fluoride, sulphate, pH, conductivity, NH 4 , NO 2 , NO 3 , Ca, K, Mg, Na and hardness in ...

UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (look bigger picture ). The operations of the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE are directly or indirectly related to most of the UN’s Sustainable Dev...

The project tackles littering and improves waste management in rural villages in North Karelia, Finland, and the Karelian Republic, Russia. We encourage and support local residents, authorities and c...

  Proftest SYKE will organize a proficiency test for the analysis of oxygen, chlorophyll  a , salinity, SiO 2 , TIC and TOC in natural waters. The purpose of this proficiency ...

  Proftest SYKE will organize a proficiency test for the analysis of metals and mercury in natural waters. The measurands for the synthetic sample and ground water as well as natural wa...

   Proftest SYKE will organize in spring 2022 an interlaboratory comparison on the identification of benthic diatoms. In this interlaboratory comparison (ILC), the identification s...

Approximately one million tons of solid matter, known as sewage sludge, is separated from wastewater annually in Finnish wastewater treatment plants. 90 % of the nutrient rich sludge is used in agric...

Objectives and targets of SYKE’s environmental programme 2022–2025 Mitigation of adverse environmental impacts caused by SYKE’s activities We will reduce the environmental impacts of wo...

SYKE's research results are published in international and national scientific publication series and also in professional and general-interest publications. In addition, we publish brochures, books,...

Addressing global sustainability challenges, such as climate change and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), requires changes in innovation policy. Hence, it is necessary to promo...

Finnish Environment Institute SYKE's strategy for 2021–2025 consists of our vision, mission statement, values and objectives that guide all our activities. Vision Sustainability Tr...

  The Alliance+ extension project aims to open the Alliance network to blue biotechnology actors beyond the reach of the limited partnership of the Alliance main stage project. The A...

  BlueBioSites Seed Money project aims to develop a ‘large scale’ project with the objective to create a Baltic Sea wide effective system for the identification and monitoring of sus...

The financing for the Finnish Environment Institute comes from the state budget and from external sources. In 2021, SYKE’s operating financing came to approximately 63.8 million euros:...

Finnish Environment Institute’s (SYKE) management system consists of the rules that guide SYKE’s activities as well as SYKE’s own policies, practices and guidelines. The purpose of the management sys...

SYKE’s management team is responsible for SYKE’s management system. The management team assesses the appropriateness and suitability of SYKE’s activities and management system on a regular basis. The...