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Empower your international career - online sessions with Unite!
Unite! partner universities offer online sessions that will help students further their knowledge on the labor market, with particular focus on international careers.

The organisers of Laskiaisrieha expect a relaxed student vibe and encounters across university boundaries
The history of Laskiaisrieha spans over decades. Nowadays, it is organised by Vapaateekkarit in cooperation with Aalto University Student Union (AYY). However, the event did not take place in 2021, so on Tuesday 1 March 2022 it will be organised for the first time in two years.

For students: Learn languages and intercultural competencies online with Unite!
Unite! partner universities offer online courses in language, communication and global competence that are open to all Aalto University students.

More than half a million euros for science and art grants
At Aalto University, 31 researchers or working groups receive a grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation

Award for Achievement in Teaching 2021 recognises the student-centred and interactive teaching of Meeri Karvinen
The event also included presentations of other The recognitions from the year 2021 were presented at the Dean's Coffee event ob 15 Feb.

Scientists test how wind turbines hold up to frozen flows in world’s largest indoor ice tank
Understanding the fundamentals of what happens when turbines meet ice could finally bring off-shore wind farms into chillier waters

Otakaari 2A and 2B construction will start 21 February
Otakaari 2A and 2B construction will start during February.

Student, are you Aalto University’s next campus guide?
As a campus guide, you provide the personnel, visitors and other members of our community with memorable campus experience

Space 21 - a project space for experimentation!
Space 21, a project space for the use of all Aalto community, opened its doors in spring 2022

Ice scientist Jukka Tuhkuri embarks on seven-week expedition to the Antarctic – topics of study include the changing ice conditions and compressive forces on ships
For ships, climate change means new types of ice conditions, including warmer ice and ice floes that move along the waves.

Summer Job Day 2022 fluently turned into a virtual event
Summer Job Day 2022 recruitment fair was organized virtually on 19-20 January 2022 on JobTeaser.

Transboundary river basins connect and require effective cooperation
Transboundary water cooperation between Finland and Russia functions nowadays fluently, with several unique features. Reaching this stage has been a long process with fascinating political developments.

EUR 11 million for research infrastructures
The Academy of Finland funding strengthens, among other things, fabrication of micro and nanostructures, quantum and high-performance computing, biomedical imaging, future wireless networks, and arctic research

Director General Arvo Kokkonen to chair School of Engineering Stakeholder Advisory Board
The School of Engineering Stakeholder Advisory Board, launched in 2021, promotes the impact of the school's research and education among Finnish industries and society.

Where would you like to sit down, which part of the campus needs garden benches? Leave your proposal!
Propose where new garden benches and different kinds of plants will be set up to the campus in spring 2022.
Theory U - How to lead from the future while it emerges?
Creative people, like artists and scientists, invent and create the new by stepping from the visible world into the invisible world of imagination, and then returning back into the visible. We all can develop our sensitivity, intuition and leadership capabilities to increase creativity.

Multidisciplinary research project based on origami seeks solutions for industrial needs
A joint project covering the fields of mathematics, engineering and arts is about to start at Aalto, where the aim is to study and develop folding technology for the needs of industry. In addition ÄûÃʵ¼º½, the project includes VTT as coordinator, and several companies from the forest industry to the machine design and cosmetics brands, such as Stora Enso, Metsä Group, Lumene, Mirka, Elomatic, Anpap, Orfer and Soften. Business Finland granted funding for the Co-Innovation project.

A record number of applications to English bachelor’s programmes
Aalto University received altogether 7 362 applications to these programmes.
