Press releases
Aalto partners with Helsinki’s Flow Festival to showcase art and creativity at the Summer’s must-see music and culture event
Aalto students will be on display throughout the festival with murals, films, videos, animations, design, art education workshops and architecture.

Henry Ford Trust and Aalto University to cooperate on smart traffic research
A networked traffic system offers possibilities to streamline traffic safety, mobility services, and traffic, especially in urban environments.
Sweco and Aalto University to expand collaboration
The agreement enhances cooperation in the Master’s Programme in Building Technology.

Innovation award for women goes to Professor Hele Savin
Professor Savin has developed an applied nanotechnology method for producing high-capacity solar cells with the help of “black silicon” that employs nanostructures.
Frequency modulation accelerates the research of quantum technologies
In quantum devices, frequency modulation is utilized in controlling interactions.
Change the future, vote for the best science solution
Aalto is well represented in Helsinki Challenge where one of the finalists is chosen by a public vote. Join pitch nights at the University of Helsinki on 6–7 June.

Final stages in Aalto University’s fundraising campaign reached
The campaign has exceeded its original target as 21.2 million euros have been raised.

First Aalto-2 signal received from Japan
Released into orbit on 25 May, Aalto-2 is measuring the features of the thermosphere.

Aalto University and Stora Enso to build special stage for public debate forum SuomiAreena
The parties' co-operation results in the Aika (Time) stage, designed by Aalto students, to celebrate Finland's centennial year.

Child patients value warm encounters; parents support and smooth day to day life
Patient experiences at the Children's Hospital have a wide ranging impact on the family’s daily life outside the hospital too.
Fragments of the Hunt : Persistence Hunting, Tracking and Prehistoric Art
How a humanities scholar and artist from Aalto unraveled an ancient mystery about cave paintings in Africa.
Aalto-2 satellite's deployment into orbit delayed
The planned deployment of the satellite on Tuesday will have to be postponed due to an extra space walk.
Aalto-2 satellite goes into orbit to measure the thermosphere
The small satellites will be deployed from the International Space Station on 23 May.
Presented by Aalto’s School of Arts, Design and Architecture, SCSMI2017 offers a rare international film conference in Finland.
For 4 days in June Aalto’s Töölö Campus will be crowded by enthusiastic film and media professionals, researchers and students, gathering around 100 talks on philosophy, aesthetics, history and cognitive psychology of cinematic storytelling.

Aalto’s fashion design very much present during Helsinki New Fashion Seminar
Helsinki New Fashion Seminar is bringing the top international names to Helsinki.

Supercomputer can disprove the theory of sunspot formation
A group of researchers believes that contrary to a common model sunspots form near the Sun's surface.

Destruction of a quantum monopole observed
Scientists at Amherst College and Aalto University have made the first experimental observations of the dynamics of isolated monopoles in quantum matter.

The Technology Industries of Finland and Aalto University joint letter regarding the "Building the European Data Economy" communication and consultation
The Technology Industries of Finland and Aalto University have sent a joint letter for the European Commission providing responses to the "Building the European Data Economy" consultation.

University applicants increasingly interested in the field of technology
The number of applicants increased for almost every university of technology in Finland.