PhD Sanna Marttinen has been elected as the Executive Director of Tulanet, a cooperation body of Finnish government research institutes, for the term 2023–2027. Sanna Marttinen has worked as the Execu......

2022 Science Days, “Science shakes a hand with Coastal life and citizens”, from 30th November–1st December, Helsinki, Finland Kick-off Meeting of BALTICITIES for all stakeholde...

Programmes   Load Program (PDF)   30th of November, 2022 Science Forum, Day I: “Science shakes a hand with coastal life and citizens”...

Aims Green-Digi-Basin project is targeted to find the most effective green solutions for the boreal-subarctic river basins and improve existing calculations for river connectivity, i.e. nut...

  Senior Research Scientist Dr. Water resources. AI (forecasting, image recgonition, invasive species), urban water & education (economics, meteorology, product development). S......

On February 3, 2022, the Finnish Environment Institute and the European Alternet network organized a webinar for 120 listeners. The needs to further develop science-policy interfaces were discussed at......

Iron is the most important micronutrient for oceanic phytoplankton production. In Southern Ocean, wide areas are low-productive due to the scarcity of iron despite high concentrations macronutrients....

According to a study, mining in shallow marine areas conflicts with international conservation and sustainability goals, bringing with it great environmental risks....

Marine and coastal ecosystems are under unprecedented change globally, mainly attributed to already recognized human-induced factors such as overexploitation of ocean resources, climate change and env......

© Adobe Stock Climate change mitigation and related low-carbon goals have become central themes in land use planning, as planning is the foundation of future land use solutions. Over...

Ongoing projects Horizon 2020 Research DG: 7. Framework programme LIFE IP LIFE + Interreg Programme 2014-2020 (Baltic Sea Region, Seed money, Central Baltic, Botnia-...

© Elise Järvenpää Background In 2019 the European Commission formulated the “European Green Deal”, a roadmap of key policies, legislative proposals, and strategies to implement ...

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...

The main goal of the Freshwater Competence Centre is to promote the research infrastructure, equipment, and the outstanding Finnish freshwater competence and knowledge both nationally and internationa......

    Objectives HYDRO-RI-Platform is one of the main parts of the Finnish Freshwater Competence Centre. It aims to Boost Science, Education, and Business with Key Tech...

Scientific publications Ahti Lepistö, Antti Räike, Tapani Sallantaus, Leena Finér (2021), Increases in organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations in boreal forested catchments — Change...

The aim of the committee is to develop a usable and acceptable method for identifying forest areas important for biodiversity and to produce openly available map with this method. Our objective is to...

NEWS   Expert Opinion to the UN 2023 Water Conference Interactive Dialogues, September 2022   Experts representing the convening and contributing organizations o...

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...

Little things together make a huge difference and clean environment. Further, responsible operators undoubtedly attract conscious visitors better than their less responsible competitors. Considering t......