Water resilience has become a hot topic in Europe as the continent is experiencing more severe droughts and floods because of climate change, and the health of water ecosystems continues to decline. A......

To achieve a good state of aquatic environments, reducing the agricultural phosphorus load is needed. However, the recent environmental protection policies do not necessarily take into account the di...

The management of nutrient stocks on the seabed is a challenge in the coastal areas of the Baltic Sea. The aim of the CLAYTRAP project is to demonstrate that glacial clay found on the seabed is able ...

What happens when efficiency targets are implemented in public water supply? How digital tools can help to control over abstraction of water supply and re-allocate scarce water resources between diffe......

Join us for an immersive online workshop on “Cutting-edge water governance for water resilience”, taking place on 13 June 2024 at the EU Green Week Partner Events. Hosted by the Water Governance syner......

The overall objective of this Horizon Europe funded project is to integrate and enhance existing observation efforts –including in-situ, satellite, modelling and citizen science – to better study the...

Development Engineer Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel: +358 295 251 617 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Built environment solutions Water r......

The annual Europe-INBO conference in October 2023 hosted hosted a workshop dedicated to water governance innovations by GOVAQUA and our sister projects InnWater and RETOUCH NEXUS. The workshop provide......

Earth's water resources (video, 3 min) Air travel and its climate impact (video, 3 min) Air travel and climate - a Guide for Teachers (pdf)     ...

The Europe-INBO conference held next week in Valencia, Spain, will host a workshop dedicated to water governance innovations. The GOVAQUA project is one of the organizers of the workshop. The workshop......

Policy briefs:  Water resilience is built with better water governance  (June 24 2024) Press releases: Tackling Europe´s water problems requires new ways...

The Finnish Environment Institute has published an English version of its vesi.fi web service called waterinfo.fi. It contains plenty of general information on water, latest snapshots of the hydrologi......

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...

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......

Finnish Environment Institute's research results are published in international and national scientific publication series and also in professional and general-interest publications. In addition, we ...

A new handbook will promote sustainable and equitable allocation of transboundary water resources. The publication is the first of its kind and is the latest example of Finland’s significant role in i......

Backgroud Currently, Finnish marine phytoplankton monitoring is conducted using a standardized microscopy method. The resulting data are used for ecological status assessment and for eutrophicat...

The objective of SEDOS is to develop, implement and validate snow cover/extent product and the prototype system for their production covering Europe, as a preparative actin for the future EUMETSAT ME...

In the future, our world may increasingly rely on renewable biomass resources for the provision of food, fodder, fibre and fuel. How this transition to bioeconomy will affect Nordic water resources, i......

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