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How to accelerate innovations, ensure food sequrity and make cities green? Sustainability Science Days seeks answers to the huge sustainability challenges of our time
Sustainability Science Days 2022 focuses on global system-level solutions for food systems, cities, governance and more. Sustainability Science Days is Finland's largest two-day science conference on sustainable development, organized by Aalto University and the University of Helsinki.
‘Painting Energies’ Podcast Explores Light and Energy at the Intersection of Art and Science
A new podcast hosted by physicist Janne Halme and artist Bartaku explores the connections between light and color, plant and microbe, art and science. The Painting Energies podcast builds upon their visionary artscience workings that have been evolving at Aalto University since 2017. Painting Energies is not to be missed for any scientist, artist or student looking to find new ways of combining art and science.
Art for All festival returns in August
The cross-artistic festival will take place 26.-28.8.2022 in the Helsinki Botanical Garden. The event features pieces from performing arts to installations and audiovisual works.
PatternLab set an all-time sales record
The pattern design project's latest sales mark the highest sales record in history. The course with a strong brand will also be renewed.
How does an oil company make a green leap? Can the procurement community help Ukraine out of trouble? Welcome to the Prodeko seminar on responsible business on 6 May!
The theme of this year's Prodeko seminar is Navigating Responsibility and Growth, and speakers include Kaisa Hietala, Exxon Mobil's Board of Directors, and Sammeli Sammalkorpi, CEO of Sievo Oy.
Biorefineries and Herbert Sixta in spotlight at 2022 seminar
Biorefineries research group annual seminar presented the latest developments in forest-based, sustainable refineries and analytical tools.
Film Silence breaks a taboo
A short film directed by Saara Hakkarainen tells a story of a silenced secret.
Researchers merged quantum optics with a treasure hunt
One of the aims of InstituteQ, the national quantum institute, and the QPlayLearn platform developed by the institute’s researchers is to add our understanding of the significance of quantum research and technologies in the society. Now QPlayLearn has created The Photonic Trail game in collaboration with Quantum Flytrap.
Exhibition: Design creates equality
Exhibition "Design for Every Body" at Design Museum explores the importance of design from the perspective of equality.
Design builds transformation capacity
The book Designing Change is a quick and readable cross-section of Aalto's world-leading design research
Professor Emeritus Herbert Sixta: “The most important task of a professor is to educate young people, to help them build their career”
After an extensive career in academia and the forest-based industries, Professor Herbert Sixta has retired. Having worked in Austria for 25 years, Sixta arrived ʵ in 2007, where his research in biorefineries helped create, among other things, the Ioncell process, a technology that turns used textiles, pulp, and paper into new textile fibres sustainably and without chemicals.
Researchers join forces with companies to develop low-carbon industrial production
Aalto University, the University of Oulu, and VTT, together with seven companies are searching for ways to reduce the environmental impact of industrial production, and for measures that can be combined in an environmentally responsible brand strategy.
FinnCERES Flagship: Internal call for enhancing the bio-based materials research and innovations at Aalto
The FinnCERES Flagship is opening the call to enhance the bio-based materials research and innovations in line with the main themes of the Flagship.
FinnCERES Flagship: Internal project call for boosting the bio-based materials research and innovations at Aalto
The FinnCERES Flagship is opening the call for multidisciplinary projects to enhance the bio-based materials research and innovations in line with the main themes of the Flagship.
EIT Urban Mobility 2024 - 2025 Targeted Call (DL 22.2.24)
EIT Urban Mobility’s third Targeted Open Call for innovation projects is now open for applications until 22 February 2024.
EIT Urban Mobility is looking for projects that either address a gap in their innovation portfolio, or are a direct response to external changes and influences, across five categories:
Demand-responsive transport
Employee commuting emissions reporting
Hydrogen transition
Support for national governments’ innovation programmes
Advanced driver assistance systems buses
EIT Urban Mobility is looking for projects that either address a gap in their innovation portfolio, or are a direct response to external changes and influences, across five categories:
Demand-responsive transport
Employee commuting emissions reporting
Hydrogen transition
Support for national governments’ innovation programmes
Advanced driver assistance systems buses
KU Leuven, Aalto University and University of Helsinki join forces to boost research collaboration
New seed funding will be awarded jointly to fund up to five exploratory research projects
How an exciting engineering challenge drew a physicist into solar painting
A scientist and an artist worked together to produce a painting that produces electricity, as well as a transdisciplinary podcast. Next, they want to let audiences see all the beautiful things that researchers are normally too shy to showcase.
African European scientific partnership to tackle future critical materials shortages
A collaborative African European project RESTART dedicated to the implementation of a full value chain for recycling end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and photovoltaic solar panels has begun.
Who defines how we experience art?
The research mapped the visitors of Väre and the School of Business buildings premises experienced public art
