ICOS Cities (a.k.a. PAUL – Pilot Applications In Urban Landscapes) is a large project funded by the EU Horizon 2020 instrument’s Green Deal call. The project focuses on monitoring systems for greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in densely populated urban areas in the Europe. The role of the NODUS team is to benchmark existing services and to develop new service prototypes for the end users of observational emission data such as city administrators.

NorDark – Unconventional Methods to Inform Sustainable Design: Mediating the Needs of People and Nature in Nordic After-dark Environments (2021–2024) – strives to develop new knowledge crucial to design for sustainability in the urban after-dark. To achieve this aim we bring relevant disciplines together with representatives from design, technology, psychology and ecology.

Carbonwise Jukola project will create and pilot a sustainable and carbonwise learning and operating model for a public mass event. The project will reduce the carbondioxide emissions caused by Porvoo Jukola 2023 event by prioritizing and selecting the key activities and measures that can be most effectively achived by developing the target.

Towards Eco-Welfare State: Orchestrating for Systemic Impact (ORSI) project is a joint undertaking of Tampere University, the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. The project is funded by the Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland.

The Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance (CNCA) is focused on achieving carbon neutrality in leading urban hubs all over the globe. Their mission centres on ambitious environmental targets in GHG reduction and carbon drawdown solutions for the urban environment. The current Biosolids to Biochar project is a collaboration between Aalto University and four CNCA cities, Helsinki, Stockholm, Boulder, and Minneapolis.

NONTOX project is developing a combination of technologies to recycle hazardous plastic waste generated from Waste Electrical and Electronics Equipment (WEEE), End of Life Vehicles (ELV) and Construction and Demolition Waste (CDW).

In this PoDoCo project with Helsinki-based energy consultancy VaasaETT (Vaasa Energy Think Tank) and NODUS, we aim to research innovative but impactful ways to boost local renewable energy utilization and related energy business in Finland through radically people-centered approaches.