One of the key areas of excellence of E-institute is implementing the sustainability impact assessments for integration of objects into the living spaces.

The existing methods of environmental impact assessment are becoming outdated, since they do not appropriately weight all aspects. Consequently, the public is not fully satisfied, and this trend is becoming more and more evident with the changes of modern society and the use of modern ICT-based social platforms.

To overcome these imbalances we have developed a unique method of sustainability impact assessment, where all aspects are put into one matrix by using multi-criteria analysis and multi-stakeholder cooperation. The results are remarkable and are placing the sustainability impact assessment back to the EU agenda. We strongly believe the Aarhus Convention of ensuring access to environmental information and public participation in decision making should be taken more seriously and one of the possible improvements could be the use of sustainability impact assessment for integration of objects into the living spaces. 

E-institute is cooperating with International Hydropower Association in trainings for implementation of the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol.