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DBMC Alumna Svitlana Chaplinska: ‘The course exceeded all my expectations'

The spring edition of the Digital Business Master Class by Aalto University Summer School took place in March this year.
Studies
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Svitlana Chaplinska sitting with her laptop and smiling towards the camera in a futuristic, round and red chair integrated to the wall at Aalto University campus.

Like Shadows Through Leaves Selected for 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen

{if your bait can sing the wild one will come} Like Shadows Through Leaves by The Migrant Ecologies Project has been selected for the International Competition at the 67th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen.
Research & Art
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Still from the film Like Shadows Through Leaves, 2021. A figure stands next to a minimalist wall wearing a cardboard bird mask

Alumnus of SECCLO programme: ‘Creating a bond with Finland’

A summer internship led to a career in cybersecurity at Ericsson for Bruno Duarte from Paraguay, who graduated from the SECCLO Master’s programme in Security and Cloud Computing in 2020.
Studies
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Henkilökuvassa hymyilevä, parrakas ja silmälasipäinen Bruno Duarte on kahden muun miehen kanssa. Heillä kaikilla on siniset SECCLO-tunnuksin varustetut hupparit päällään.

Step up your digital game with this summer's Digital Business Master Class

In the hybrid adaptation of Digital Business Master Class, students from all over the world have the chance to join a highly facilitated and challenge-based course on Digital Business either online or on-campus.
Studies, University
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Two students smiling towards each other while walking towards the front doors in the lobby of Ekonominaukio 1

A meaningful career at the center of career events

Aalto University School of Business alumni and students discussed studies, career paths and skills required in working life at an online Group Mentoring event held on 11 March 2021.
Cooperation, Studies
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Kaksi opiskelijaa istuu ikkunan ääressä.

Recycling of batteries and responsible raw materials are Finland's asset - A major project enhanced cooperation within the battery sector

The two-year BATCircle consortium led by Aalto University has produced a lot of new research on battery recycling and raw materials and strengthened the cooperation within the sector
Cooperation, Research & Art
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Recycled battery metal in a bowl

Aalto Main Street: turning Otaniemi campus area into a lively, shared street space

The project “Aalto Main Street: City as a Service” aimed at redefining public space and creating an active and full of life street area in the core of Otaniemi Campus.
Cooperation, Studies
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’Aaltoscape’, Kerttu Kaisanlahti / Aalto University

Finnish Design Info to raise international visibility of Finnish design

Plans for a new info centre for the design field move forward with a new project team.
University
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Finnish Design Info

A remote device helps medical staff in the fight against time

How can we improve the monitoring of patient vital signs when hospitals are full of Covid-19 patients? An international group of students, whose award-winning innovation led to establishing a company, has the solution.
Aalto Magazine
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Uusi potilaiden etävalvontalaite kiinnitetään hihnalla ranteeseen kuten rannekello

European collaboration in joint degree programmes

Aalto’s international joint master’s degrees foster a spirit of innovation, collaboration, and appreciation for diversity among their students.
Cooperation
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Alumna Wen Hui-Tu: If you are interested in working in the gaming industry, don't be hesitant if you don't have any programming background

‘I had never imagined myself working for a mobile game company until I started exploring this industry while writing my Master’s thesis,’ tells our alumna Wen-Hui Tu, who combined Management studies with more quantitative courses through Information and Service Management minor, and now works as an App Store Optimization Specialist at Next Games.
Cooperation, Studies
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Wen-Hui Tu

Metsähovi radio observatory joins a new European network combining optical and radio astronomy technology research

The network connects observatories around the world and allows observations to be made simultaneously at multiple wavelengths.
Cooperation, Research & Art
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Kupu on Metsähovin alueen maamerkki, joka näkyy lentokoneestakin. Kuvaaja: Joni Tammi

Aalto University’s TUTLI project eParkly gathers the parking related data on the A Grid parking area to develop future parking solutions

eParkly pilot begins on the A Grid parking area (A Grid B Otakaari 5, area code 541) on Monday 29th of March 2021. eParkly is a platform for providing a better parking experience to car drivers by real-time sensing of parking area utilization rates.
Campus, Research & Art, University
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A Grid ilmakuva Kuva: Mikko Raskinen

School of Engineering seeks new vice dean

The School of Engineering is looking for vice dean for research, for a term beginning on 1 August 2021.
University
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Aalto University School of Engineering

Helsinki would need at least 5,000 intermediate-deep geothermal wells to meet the energy demands in district heating – researchers call for more studies

Geothermal energy wells are being explored as a way to provide district heating to cities and suburbs. A new study suggests that fields of wells connected to existing heating systems, instead of individual wells, should be studied.
Research & Art
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Otakaari 1, kuva: Mikko Raskinen.

What makes a city happy? Professori Marketta Kyttä in BBC interview

Smooth daily life is one way, said Professor Kyttä when she spoke to the BBC on what makes Finnish cities special.
University
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kaupunkinakyma Helsinki

Contribute to the New European Bauhaus initiative this Spring

We all have the possibility to contribute to the EU’s Green Deal pilots and agenda during Spring 2021. 
Cooperation, Research & Art
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Aalto New European Bauhaus proposals Photo: Aleksi Poutanen

Astronomers image magnetic fields at the edge of M87’s black hole

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, has revealed today a new view of the massive object at the centre of the M87 galaxy: how it looks in polarised light.
Press releases
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A view of the M87 supermassive black hole in polarised light, © EHT Collaboration

Economists see an emission allowance system for construction materials as the most cost-effective way of reducing the carbon footprint of construction

An emissions allowance system would steer the construction industry toward making the needed emission reductions where it can be done at the lowest possible costs, researchers say.
Press releases
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Kuvituskuva: moderni toimistorakennus, jossa lasiset seinät

New Industry partnership for solid-state cooling

Comptek Solutions and Aalto University’s Engineered Nanosystems group launch the SuperDevice project to study the effects of controlled oxidation on defected surfaces in optical cooling devices
Research & Art
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Some of the samples made by the group