Creation of Information Centre on environmental issues targeted to business life. Specific objectives: Special focus on business opportunities related to environment, awareness rising on sustainable development business models. Main outputs: Independent profitable office, which is known as trustworthy impartial source of information on environmental matters. Attached to the office there is going to be continuously changing exhibition of the products of environmental companies. A unit to produce different kinds of environmental services and training. The project is participating in the development of new environmental project implementation in co-operation with Finnish and Russian companies. Achievements: The overall objective of the project was to provide information to companies and markets acting in the field of environmental technologies. This objective was addressed by establishing an information centre in St. Petersburg, including a showroom with a permanent exhibition on these activities. The showroom on the ISBE (Itä-Suomen Businessedustusto Oy, www.isbe.fi) premises would also be available for SMEs to provide exhibitions and organise seminars and networking with their partners and potential customers. A higher level of awareness of environmental issues in technology and business was supported by developing and launching the web portal www.ecoprofi.info. This portal is intended to serve not only Finnish and Russian SMEs but the general public as well. The project was responsible for the publication of several books, research and marketing studies that may be downloaded from the ecoprofi web portal. In addition to the project’s main objectives, there was cooperation with several other ENPI co-funded partners. The prerequisites of sustainable development through these implemented activities may improve, should the partners wish to continue cooperation after the project funding is over. Some of these relationships were established prior to the Envi project.