Student Verneri Hirvonen: ‘Studying at Aalto University is extremely flexible’
Verneri is the first student to graduate from the Digital Systems and Design major
FITech Network University gained extra time for free ICT courses
The university courses open to all in the field of ICT will be continued until the end of 2023.
Researchers mimic how water and wind create complex shapes in nature
No hands required: new study shows how particles can be directed into desired shapes with energy fields and smart algorithm.
Board game bar Taproom d20 opens in A Blanc
Offering board games and refreshments, Taproom d20 opens its doors on the first floor of shopping centre A Blanc at the turn of September and October.
Student - share your vision of the university of the future and win a trip to Lisboa!
Applications are open from 20 September to 22 October. Gather a team of students from other Unite! partner universities and prepare a video with your vision of the university of the future.
Open online training material promotes low-carbon construction in Finnish
Aalto University has published an open, free-of-charge course material that promotes low-carbon construction.
Join Aalto University at the 2021 European Researchers' Night on 24 September
Aalto University invites you to join the 2021 European Researchers' Night session "Unite! for sustainable energy"!
Marjo-Riitta ”Maikki” Diehl: My research concerns organizational justice
According to the new Associate Professor at the Department of Management Studies, fairness and justice are critical to ensuring cooperation and coordination between groups and organizations.
Additional donations towards smart building services engineering
The role of smart buildings will grow further in the breakthrough brought about by renewable energy and digitalisation.
Changing climate increases the need for water diplomacy
Water issues are increasingly political, meaning tensions need to be tackled in new ways
New accelerator program Ignite brings students from different fields together
The Ignite program involved teams from Aalto as well as other universities.
Students discovered potential new business models for S Group’s online grocery business
The suggested business models can be applied to the online grocery store operations, says Chief Digital Officer, Retail eCommerce, of SOK.
Aalto University’s Bachelor’s programmes will accept both SAT and ACT tests in the 2022 admissions round
Starting from the 2022 admissions round, Aalto University has decided to additionally accept the ACT test to the programmes offered in English that have previously accepted only the SAT test.
Researchers develop the perfect recycled fertilizer for forests - saves 88% of energy normally used but still not legal
Finnish forests are typically nourished with fertilisers containing energy-intensive nitrogen and phosphorous mined in Morocco. Researchers have now developed an ecological alternative with ingredients sourced from a waste processing plant. It is good for forests and the environment – but legislation has to change first.
Nordic Biomaterials with CHEMARTS – a crucial course for future-changers
The Aalto University Summer School course Nordic Biomaterials in collaboration with CHEMARTS gathered students from Sweden, the USA, Germany, Norway and Belgium for a summer course on campus for the first time since the pandemic.
An encounter between a photographer and remote sensing specialists led to a book on forests, vision and the purpose of science
Where one person sees a beautiful bark surface, another person sees raw data, says Sheung Yiu, who took the photographs for the Ground Truth book.
‘A child fell from heaven’, said the matron in the church bench.
The former Chancellor of Helsinki School of Economics Aatto Prihti could be seen as a gift from heaven, especially to the Finnish economy.
Professor Jari Saramäki was granted funding from The Strategic Research Council (SRC)
Academy of Finland’s SRC provides funding for long-term research aimed at identifying solutions to major societal challenges.
Physicists make square droplets and liquid lattices
Driving systems out of equilibrium with electric fields proves useful for creating liquid shapes that are nearly impossible to find in nature
