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Otaniemi campus opening hours during summer 2022
Otaniemi campus and Aalto University Töölö opening hours during summer 2022
Aalto RDM & Open Science Training Attracted 2,800 Registrations This Academic Year
The webinars continue to be highly rated and most are already publicly available on YouTube.
'Mentoring is inspiring and fun' - Aalto International Talent Program offers a meaningful way to support international students
This year the group mentoring initiative brought together over 180 international students and 17 companies.
Panu Mustakallio has been appointed Professor of Practice in HVAC Technology
'Teaching is a great opportunity to transfer industrial knowledge to students and show how theory is put into practice.'
Five-year funding granted for digitalisation in water research
The DigiVesi project enables a significant leap in information management and programming expertise for all Finnish water engineering while also reinforcing the sector's international competitiveness.
Closer cooperation between Aalto and ABB Marine & Ports
ABB Marine & Ports and their equipment supplier Typhoon HIL are donating six simulators for researcher and student use.
The participatory budgeting project culminated in a happy planting workshop
One Euro for Every Student project culminated in a planting workshop in mid-May on the new garden benches
Back to the future products
The 25th anniversary gala of the PDP course took place on the 13th of May at Design Factory. Many interesting future products such as electric wooden boat, extremely precise factory crane and edible packing material were presented at the Gala.
Your invitation to Life 1.5
Save the date/planet: Welcome to our fourth Designs for a Cooler Planet festival, 7.9–12.10.2022 in Otaniemi, Espoo.
The Finnish Freshwater Competence Centre Aims to Boost Science, Education, and Business with Key Technologies
The main goal of the Freshwater Competence Centre is to promote the research infrastructure, equipment, and the outstanding Finnish freshwater competence and knowledge both nationally and internationally, in order to make wide-reaching science with concrete impact.
New Academy Research Fellows and postdoctoral researchers
Funding granted by the Academy of Finland brings six new Academy Research Fellows, and 14 postdoctoral researchers ÄûÃʵ¼º½ University – congratulations to all!
Melina Nummi enhances student mobility between Unite! universities
Melina Nummi is the planning officer for international mobility at Aalto University. Melina's interest in enabling internationalisation for everyone, comes from her own background as she has studied and worked outside Finland for quite many years.
Water researcher Eliisa Lotsari receives the Academy of Finland Award 2021
Lotsari was awarded for an excellent multidisciplinary approach to understanding changes in water systems.
Markus Sunela appointed as Professor of Practice of Management of Water and Wastewater Networks
Sunela has over ten years of practical experience modelling water and district energy systems in addition to special expertise in topics such as heat capture from wastewater networks
Assistant Professor Anna Mikola: Wastewater treatment is going through a transformation as the water treatment system is being overhauled to meet new requirements
Anna Mikola (b. 1973), D.Sc. (Tech.), has been appointed as assistant professor at the Aalto University Department of Built Environment for the period 1 June 2022–31 May 2026. The field of the professorship is water engineering in the circular economy.
Interruption to water supply in Otaniemi 9.5.2022
Water supply was cut before noon but returned to normal by midday
Researchers lay out a path to saving the Mekong Delta
Without swift, determined action, the homes of the millions living in the delta will be underwater by the end of the century
What does modern real estate development look like?
Students of a real estate development course used the map-based tool CHAOS to navigate the large information sets used to create development plans for real estates.
Wooden buildings are a sustainable alternative in the face of global steel shortages
Building with wood instead of steel and concrete would make construction more sustainable and supply chains more resilient
