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Aalto Networking Platform

The Aalto Networking Platform initiative promotes cross-disciplinary actions in Aalto University’s seven key research areas. We bring together experts in science, technology, arts and business, across departments, supporting collaboration both inside and outside of Aalto.

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FARIA Synergy Grants for joint proposals with the University of Washington.

Aalto University and the University of Washington are welcoming joint proposals for ambitious and impactful initiatives strengthening collaboration between researchers based at Aalto University and the UW. Call opens: Dec 1st, 2025 Deadline: January 31, 2026 11:59 PM PT

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Presidents of Finland and Iceland visiting the Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition in 2025

Applications for our biggest exhibition of the year are now open: Apply to Designs for a Cooler Planet by 26.1.2026!

For the autumn 2026 exhibition, we are looking for new and inspiring innovations, ideas, and experiments from all fields across Aalto University. The exhibition and its events serve as one of the most important showcases of the university’s work to the world. In 2025, the event attracted over 15,000 visitors.

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Key research areas

Learn more about activities in the seven key research areas of Aalto University.

Key Research Area: Energy solutions

The main focus in energy research and teaching are energy sciences, multidisciplinary energy technologies, and sustainable energy solutions.

View of Helsinki by night. Photo by Ioannis Koulousis.

Key Research Area: Arts and design

Art and creativity enable looking at the grand challenges of our time from a new perspective. Look past the imaginable and join us in changing the world in arts and design.

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Key Research Area: Digitalisation and AI

Digital technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and communications are cut through the whole society, from education to medicine and economics.

Aalto X Reality Keynote PiP by Matti Ahlgren

Key Research Area: Business and economics

Research related to business and economics include the areas of business, economics, industrial engineering and management.

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Key Research Area: Health and well-being

Aalto University’s expertise in health and well-being is broad-based, with strong clusters of research groups such as in medical devices, health AI, neuroscience, and care-facility architecture.

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Key Research Area: Living environments

We are developing interdisciplinary research to enhance planning and engineering, architecture and design for better living environments.

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Key Research Area: Materials and natural resources

Materials research ranges from physics, nanotechnology, mechanics, performance and design to biomaterials and sustainable resource use.

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Research & Art Published:

Study: Internal combustion engine can achieve zero-emission combustion and double efficiency

A new combustion concept that utilizes argon could completely eliminate nitrogen oxide emissions from internal combustion engines and double their efficiency compared to diesel engines.
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Press releases, Research & Art Published:

A new way to measure contagion: the gut bacterium behind blood poisoning can spread like influenza

Neither the antibiotic-resistant nor the highly virulent strains are the most transmissible.
A person presenting at a conference with two screens displaying a presentation titled 'Decolorization of Reactive Dyed Cotton Textile Waste'.
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Tonmoy Saha Presents Textile Recycling Research at CIMANET Seminar

The CIMANET Research Seminar, held under the theme “Future Leaders in Circular Materials Bioeconomy,” took place on Thursday, December 4, at the Scandic Marina Congress Center in Helsinki.
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Call for Applications: Aalto Creatives Pre-incubator Programme Spring 2026

Join the Aalto Creatives afterwork and info session on 20.1.2026 to find out more about the open call and meet the Aalto Creatives team. At this event, alums from the pre-incubator tell about their entrepreneurial journeys and share their experiences from participating in the AC programme.
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