Aalto sustainability news
Rerouting transport research: from driverless cars to fresh thinking
Focusing research on technological development will further lock us into a motorized, private-vehicle transport system.聽
Investing in environmental friendliness improves the result for companies in the logistics sector
The Rail Baltica allows that rail freight transport can be used to handle a greater share of freight traffic.
Monitoring the world鈥檚 forests with satellite data 鈥 Assistant Professor Miina Rautiainen granted 2 million in ERC funding
Detailed knowledge on the state of forest resources and climate change can be produced through more effective interpretation of satellite images.
Aalto University welcomes the first UN Technology Innovation Lab to A Grid
The laboratory focuses on circular economy, education, peace and security, and health.
Finnish energy transition arena report launched: Experts highlight a need for a thorough renovation of the energy sector to meet global climate challenges and improve Finnish competitiveness
The use of fossil fuels needs to stop on a fast schedule, a fresh report emphasises.
Banking sun and wind energy
How to make the storing of renewable energy cheaper and easier? If this study is successful, it will represent a major leap towards finding a solution to climate change.
Aalto establishes a Sustainability Hub to address the challenges of sustainable development
The Hub will increase multidisciplinary collaboration and promote sustainability in teaching, campus development and other operations at Aalto.
New project develops problem-based learning in East African Universities
Aalto Global Impact led project enhances multidisciplinarity and regional networks.
5 million euro project could see Finland become the model country for the circular economy of metals
Effective recycling would be ecologically-friendly 鈥 and accelerate Finland's economy.
Aalto Global Impact promotes societal impact globally
Since 2012, Aalto Global Impact collaborates across disciplines and sectors for sustainability.
Implications of Finland's plan to ban coal and cutting oil use
Finland has decided to phase out coal and cut oil use by a quarter by 2030 mainly based on nuclear power and bioenergy, which constitute long-term risks not properly addressed.
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 鈥渂lack silicon鈥 that employs nanostructures.
Doctoral dissertation: One of the primary purposes of higher education is to reproduce capitalism
A closer link to a capitalist growth economy makes higher education ecologically unsustainable in its present form.
Challenging companies to manage water risks in their value chains
Aalto is one of the founding members of a Water Stewardship Commitment that challenges companies to identify the water risks in their value chains and to develop sustainable water use.
Dissertation: Only little attention has been paid to the facilitators of sustainability on the operational level
Institutional pressures affect environmental and social sustainability.
Dissertation: Business development possibilities in low-income markets
Business solutions based on local needs are crucial in low-income markets.
Solar energy to Otaniemi 鈥 campus planning invests in energy efficiency
Sustainable development has an important role in the development of the Otaniemi campus.
Aalto University and VTT collaborate to develop novel textile fibres
Aalto University and VTT are taking Finnish fibre technologies towards industrial scale manufacturing in their joint TeKiDe project.
Trash-2-Cash project present in H&M Global Change Awards
Trash-2-Cash (T2C) research project presented a garment made out of chemically recycled cotton in H&M Global Change Award Ceremony in Stockholm.
Sustainable Entrepreneurship Day tackled social inclusion challenges
SED 2017 focused on social sustainability and inclusion in collaboration with the City of Helsinki. Local election candidates also discussed their views.
