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Apps and wearable technology help to track sleep of people with mental health disorders
According to the findings of a recent review article, this type of technology could even help to recognize factors that correlate with mental health disorders
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Aalto University, the City of Savonlinna and South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences step up their collaboration
The goal is to spur innovations in bioeconomy.
SUB researchers lead new sustainable textiles consortium
Researchers from the Sustainability in Business (SUB) research group are leading one of Aalto’s three consortia funded in the latest round of grants from the Academy of Finland’s Strategic Research Council.
Aalto to coordinate three new SRC consortia
Aalto University received EUR 9.2 million or 18 percent of the funding allocated.
Aalto professors amongst the new consortia funded by the Academy of Finland
The consortia were chosen on the basis of research quality, societal significance and impact.
At the edge of the world in pursuit of ship safety
What is it like to go to the Antarctic on business?
National strategy and implementation plan for open access to scholarly publications
The National Strategic Group for Open Science, together with the Expert Group on Open Access to Research Publications, has produced a draft of an implementation plan to the National Strategy for Open Access to Scholarly Publications
Locally-based Haitian social entrepreneurs empower disaster-stricken villagers to rebuild and improve their communities
The Academy of Management Journal has just published a paper titled Collective emotions in institutional creation work, which has been produced at Aalto University School of Business in collaboration with the University of Birmingham. The paper addresses the often overlooked issue of how communities rebuild long after the NGOs have moved onto the next disaster.
In memoriam Hannu Paulapuro
Hannu Paulapuro was Professor of Paper Technology from 1990 until 2012.
Academy of Finland grant to the Department of Finance
Finance Associate Professor Elias Rantapuska and his team have received an Academy of Finland grant totalling 480,000 EUR.
cOAlition S Releases Revised Implementation Guidance on Plan S Following Public Feedback Exercise
cOAlition S released revised guidance on Plan S implementation a the end of May, 2019.
Best paper published in the Review of Asset Pricing Studies in 2018
Finance paper “Beta bubbles” has been awarded as the best paper published in the Review of Asset Pricing Studies in 2018.
McKinsey Finance Teacher of the Year 2019
Finance Assistant Professor Petri Jylhä has been awarded as the McKinsey Finance Teacher of the Year.
QS Ranking: Aalto places 134th in the world
Aalto is #1 in Finland with regard to relative number of research citations, and international students and faculty
Auditing is about teamwork, but just one person can have a significant impact on its success
Recent research shows that the cognitive abilities of the auditor-in-charge affect the quality of the audits prepared by the team.
Gerfried Stocker: Creativity requires nurture
The Director of Ars Electronica brings up how artists are the experts we have in the human-technology encounter – but creativity can’t be used as a never-ending raw material.
Funding by the Academy of Finland September call totals EUR 20.6 million
Funding was granted by three Academy of Finland Research Councils: Biosciences, Health and the Environment; Culture and Society; Natural Sciences and Engineering
Working as a researcher is ’like playing with your favorite toy but you get paid for it’
Academic career wasn't a clear choice to Professors Friedrich Simmel and Francesco Ricci.
Aalto Professors publish new neuroscience textbook
‘Brain Signals’ by Risto Ilmoniemi and Jukka Sarvas comprehensively reviews brain scanning techniques and the mathematics you need to analyse them
