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A record number of applications to English bachelor’s programmes
Aalto University received altogether 7 362 applications to these programmes.
Groundbreaking light sources can increase effectiveness and security of transferring quantum information
Researchers at Aalto University plan to build a revolutionary LED light source to generate entangled photon pairs. The research group led by Professor Pertti Hakonen has received three-year funding from the Future Makers Funding Program of Technologies Finland Centennial Foundation and Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation.
Aalto University strong in ranking for international outlook
Times Higher Education’s listing ranked Aalto 40th in the world and 3rd in the Nordics
2022 brings new opportunities for the future of Unite!
In 2022 Unite! alliance is preparing for the new Erasmus+ call for European Universities Initiative and will be strengthened by two new partners.
Student Reetta Kälvälä wants to use technology to develop better cancer treatments
Reetta studies bioinformation technology, and she thinks university seems easier than upper secondary school because she can study according to her own schedule.
Two linden trees near Otaniementie to be renewed
The trees will soon be given a new life as decaying wood art.
Register for Research Data Management and Open Science Training in Spring 2022!
Aalto Research Data Management Network organises training in research data management and open science in spring 2022.
Three flagships receive continued funding
Materials Bioeconomy FinnCERES, Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI and the platform for photonics research PREIN have received the Academy of Finland’s funding for second flagship term
Learning for the future: systemic solutions require new ways of learning and collaborating
Aalto offers its staff a chance to experiment with transformative learning method, that can initiate changes in mindsets and remove invisible barriers to creativity
Aalto University announces two art competitions for a campus block under construction
Proposals can be sent 4.1.-4.4.2022 for the competition open to all artists, arranged for the first time
Alumna Bismoy Jahan: The things I learned from Aalto are related to real-life problems
Bismoy Jahan chose the Master’s Programme in Automation and Electrical Engineering because she believes that in the near future automation will play a big role in our lives.
Master’s programmes attracted a high number of applications
Aalto University received 5925 applications to master’s programmes.
Plastic and carton collection to every building on the campus
Waste sorting is changing on the campus at the beginning of the year 2022. Plastic and carton collection points will be added to break rooms.
Exhibition concentrating on data is rare, even internationally
The new Data Vitality exhibition lets you sense and feel data like never before
Dipoli and Undergraduate Centre outdoor construction sites paused for winter
The work is to be completed by summer 2022.
Two new buildings to be built in the centre of Otaniemi campus
Building Otakaari 2A & 2B begins in January 2022, construction to be completed by summer 2023
A fascination with light and its possibilities drives Professor Zhipei Sun’s research
Aalto University's Professor Zhipei Sun is on the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers list for the third time – congratulations!
Factory of the Future deploys indoor 5G and WiFi6 to support manufacturing research
Students and researchers can use the new facility to explore the applications of cutting-edge communications technologies in Industry 4.0.
Michael McCrea receives Best Paper Award on NordicSMC conference
The results of the study will be beneficial in sound environments at virtual and augmented reality.
