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Update: problem solved - FYI: Material bank EMMi affected by service attack
The service may be subject to disruptions. The service provider is taking defensive measures.
Maarintie 8 as a pilot for the recycling campaign
Maarintie 8 has been selected as a pilot site for Aalto's sorting campaign.
Is AI truly creative? Turns out creativity is in the eye of the beholder
The more we see of a creative act, the more creative we judge it to be. Researchers think these findings could change the way we design AI.
Participate in the Autumn 2025 trainings!
Aalto employees are offered plenty of staff training opportunities - have a look of the courses offerings and register!
Doctoral thesis on nuclear fusion at over one hundred million degrees Celsius awarded European physics prize
Henri Kumpulainen's PhD thesis found out how to best predict the behaviour of fusion energy materials in temperatures of over one hundred million degrees Celsius.
Aalto University maintained strong academic performance and international recognition in 2024
University board approved the Annual Board Report and Financial Statements for 2024
Aalto University endowment provided EUR 41 million in 2024 for education and research
The university endowment portfolio returned 11.2%
Lauri Saarinen: Aalto is like the Silicon Valley of Europe — only better
Lauri Saarinen is Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM). This is his journey from student to professor of the year.
Our fundraising campaign is ongoing - see how Aaltonians can participate
The campaign is on and every donor and every euro counts – see below how you can get involved and spread the word
School of Science awards outstanding doctoral and master's theses
Doctoral Thesis Award was granted to Eric Hyyppä, Sakari Lepikko, Kim Myyryläinen, Jane Seppälä, Julia Jaatela, Petrus Mikkola, Shuzhe Wang and Ana Triana Hoyos. Master's theses award was received by Matteo Merler, Aapo Pajala and Tuomas Uusnäkki.
The project team developed a proof-of-concept pricing model to suggest optimal pricing
In collaboration with Alma Media, the Aalto students worked on optimizing pricing to enhance revenue generation
Take part in the survey for new national vision for higher education and research
The online stakeholder survey by the Ministry of Education and Culture is open to all Aaltonians until 4 April
How are children with ADHD’s brains different? Scans taken while VR gaming give new insight
In a new study, children played a virtual reality game while in an MRI scanner – the brains of children with ADHD showed a notable increase in functional connectivity, a result which could help us more readily understand the condition.
Campus survey results tell the story of the campus experience
The renewed campus survey was implemented in October-November 2024.
Learn new skills for appreciative encounters in the Aaltogether Ateliers
Welcome to open meetups in March-May to develop togetherness through means of embodied practices and social arts
Visitor access and use rights policy updated – now applied to existing visitor agreements
Visitors have a visitor email address, and their campus access rights can be defined as needed
Surface repelling different kinds of drops and fog lands Innovation Prize at Department of Applied Physics
The team plans to find industrial partners for their environmentally friendly and scalable hydrophobic surface.
Fostering creative industry innovation: Fourteen new teams onboard the Aalto Creatives pre-incubator programme
Aalto Creatives, the creative industry pre-incubator programme, welcomed fourteen innovative teams at a kickoff event on March 11, 2025.
New scientific poster templates
New PowerPoint templates for scientific poster layouts are now available on all Aalto Mac and PC computers.
Five things everyone should know about political polarisation
Divisions around the world are deepening, and research shows that also in Finland public debate has become more fragmented than before
