Merja Saarinen

Research Manager, Senior Scientist
  • Phone number +358295326506
  • Email address merja.saarinen@luke.fi
  • Address Tietotie 4 31600 JOKIOINEN

Ongoing projects

Multifunctional Soil Biodiversity: Unlocking Potential for Healthy Croppin Systems

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2025–2030

PaluWise - Paludiculture demonstrations providing multi-actor approaches and recommendations towards large-scale deployment in the EU

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2025–2029

Delivering Soil improvers through improved recycling and processing solutions for food industry residues streams -WP7

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2023–2027

Completed projects

Modularity and digitality, keys for reliable and cost-effective LCA in the food chain

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2022–2025

Climate Smart Food and Nutrition Research Infrastructure

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2022–2024

Sustainably Increasing the Added Value of the Bioeconomy in Finland

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2023–2024

FoodStep - A sustainable approach for food services and early childhood education and care

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2021–2024

Controlling microbiomes circulations for better foods

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2018–2024

Climate impact dataset for the food service sector

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2022–2024

Developing LCA methods for assessing the environmental benefits of biobased products, raw materials and side streams

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2022–2024

Integrating nutrional quality into environmental impact assessment and communication - a product group approach

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2021–2024

Policy instruments for sustainable consumption

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2022–2023

Significance of consumers in GHG mitigation

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2020–2021

Climate-smaRt Organic Cropping Systems

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2019–2020

Strengthening the comprehensive competitiveness of Finnish animal production

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2018–2020

Sustainable bioeconomy: holistic multi-criteria assessment framework

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2018–2020

Climate impact of diet in accordance with the nutrition recommendations and reduced food waste

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2018–2019

Engineering of oat proteins: Consumer driven sustainable food development process

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2015–2018

Tools for Environmental Assessment of Forest Products

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2014–2017

A tool for assessing the personal eutrophicational impact of consumption on the Baltic Sea

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2016–2017