News from innovation ecosystem
Open call for Heureka X Aalto joint exhibition – make creativity in research visible!
Research breakthroughs can be radically creative. Make your research process visible to 40 000 visitors in Heureka – submit your proposal to the joint exhibition by 30 April 2023.
EIT Culture & Creativity information event
Welcome to information event for EIT Culture & Creativity.
Project team identified business opportunities for Finnish companies in the energy sector in Portugal
The Portuguese energy market presents both short-term and long-term opportunities across various sectors
The Adventures in Entrepreneurship Law course, produced as talk show videos and podcasts, is now available to everyone
A practical course for learning the key themes of business law
Aalto ENG: The newsletter for period IV is available
The current Study Affairs Newsletter for the School of Engineering has been published and sent to students by e-mail in Week 8.
Finnish Quantum Agenda details road ahead and stresses need for national quantum strategy
What are Finland’s strengths in quantum technology? How can Finland ensure it stays on top of the groundbreaking changes quantum technology will cause in the coming years and decades? These are the questions the Finnish Quantum Agenda answers.
Alumna Miia Martikainen: my heart beats for solving the challenges of our society's well-being
‘I became interested in business studies because I felt that through them, I could be part of making an impact that matters’ says Miia Martikainen, our alumna. Martikainen has been working as a consultant for almost a decade now, and she is currently in her dream job solving the future challenges of the public social and health care system.
Increase your team's interaction and ability to change
Stress decreases our wellbeing, creativity and capacity for change. Radical Creativity team organised two embodied practices workshops to boost collective resilience and renewal. You can try the exercises with your team.
Journeys of inspiration: three paths to professorship
Three newly tenured Aalto professors share their story
63 energy guzzlers - tips from the community helped to save energy on the campus
The Aalto community started campus-wide energy saving measures in Otaniemi on 10 October 2022, and we also joined the national Down a Degree energy saving campaign
Solve the SDGs returns — now on two continents
Join the sustainability hackathon by AVP and Junction, organized simultaneously in Finland, Uganda and Tanzania on 31.3.–2.4.
Aalto university innovation groups receive over €4M funding for sustainable innovations
Business Finland has granted research to business funding to seven new Aalto innovation projects. The funding is directed to commercialisation of university born inventions.
Koen Van Leemput decodes medical scans with artificial intelligence
Greatest challenge is translating methods from lab settings to patient care, says Aalto University’s new professor
Finnish academia and companies lead the way towards sustainable nonwoven products in SUSTAFIT research project
Sustainable fit-for-purpose nonwovens project boosts the competitiveness and broadens the export potential of the Finnish nonwovens sector in the growing markets. The 2,6 MEUR project is conducted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) and Aalto University and supported by 17 industry partners.
Universities work together to promote the growth of wood construction
The Doctoral School of Industrial Wood Construction at Tampere University is starting collaboration with Aalto University. The goal of practical teaching and research involving industry is to combine science and business. At the Doctoral School, the partners are bringing together knowledge based on research on wood construction and educating more specialists that are needed in the field. Especially environmental reasons are in favour of the construction of wooden high-rise buildings.
Parliament Sampo sheds light on a century’s worth of political debates
The new service will help researchers, journalists, and the public to understand and oversee democracy
Knit an Aalto hat for yourself or a friend!
Follow Marja Niemi and Outi Elina Kansanen’s knitting pattern to make a lovely gift for someone special
AllWell? - Annual study wellbeing questionnaire to be open 15 February–1 March 2023
The annual study wellbeing questionnaire, AllWell?, gives insight into the students’ views on teaching, their study wellbeing and study ability as well as peer support. This year, the questionnaire will be open from 15 February to 1 March 2023 and will be emailed to all second-year bachelor’s students and first-year master’s students.
Semiconductor sector summer jobs open in research groups
The growth of the semiconductor sector and its investments in Finland are also increasing the need for skilled personnel. Thanks to a donation from four semiconductor companies Picosun, an Applied Materials Company, Okmetic, Murata, and KYOCERA Tikitin. Aalto University will offer exciting summer jobs in the School of Electrical Engineering and the School of Chemical Engineering in the summer of 2023. Semi-Summer 2023 Programme will provide an opportunity to gain the skills needed in a growing and international field.
