Study languages and communication online – register for KiViTa courses now!
KiViTa is a selection of language and communication courses offered through a collaboration between several higher education institutions in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.

Apply to Unite! Summer School "What Computers and AI canꞌt do" by 31 March
Taking place in TU Darmstadt the school reflects on limitations of technology in the digital age.

Strikes in Jan-Feb: Impact on studying and student services
The strikes scheduled from 31 January through 2 February and on 6 February may affect teaching arrangements, depending on the teacher.

Doctoral student representatives for 2024 appointed
Doctoral students are represented in the Schools' Doctoral programme committees and in the Aalto University's Doctoral Education Working Group (DEWG)

Read theses in workstation classrooms on campus
Aalto Thesis Database has been added to the Aalto IT Windows classrooms.

Have you been on Erasmus+ mobility period or considered participating? Answer a survey by 12 Jan 2024, you can win a gift card!
Have you participated or considered participating in the Erasmus+ mobility programme during the years 2014-2023? Answer a survey and you can win a 50 eur gift card!

Season’s Greetings 2023 from FCAI
FCAI wants to attract the best talent to Europe and Finland to bolster artificial intelligence competency

Are digital services and digitality always green?
A new course focusing on sustainable ICT development is open through Fitech to anyone interested in the subject. The course starts in January 2024, register soon.

Call for doctoral student tutors, January 2024
Sign-up to be a tutor for new doctoral students as part of the Doctoral Orientation Days 15-16 January 2024!

Revised language guidelines support multilingualism
Implementation plan to be finalised by year’s end

Apply for grants from the Fabian and Jaakko Ahvenainen Fund - deadline 31 January 2024
Grants will be admitted in recognition of studies completed either in the field of bridge engineering or structural engineering and building physics, or as support for postgraduate studies in these fields.

Yearly follow-up of doctoral students open until 10.1.2024
What is the status of your doctoral studies and research? Answer the survey for un update.

More than 200 journals will be downgraded to level 0 in the Publication Forum from the beginning of 2024
Downgraded journals are published by more than 160 publishers. During the spring 2024, the panels of the Publication Forum will review the journals of MDPI, Frontiers and Hindawi. The journals should not be evaluated solely by the publisher, but consideration should be given to the choice of the publication channel.

Competetive funding to enhance doctoral education in Finland 2024-2027
In the years 2024–2027, the Ministry of Education and Culture will finance a doctoral education pilot. The call opens on the 15th November and closes on the 29th November. Aalto has an internal procedure for the applications.

Leonardo Fierro: Sharing experiences for a better doctoral student life
'Now I’m less fearful of failing. I know how to put things into perspective. It was a good lesson to learn that failing is part of the process of succeeding.'

Call for doctoral student representatives 2024 (Doctoral Programme Committees and Doctoral Education Working Group)
Student representatives speak for doctoral students in Doctoral Programme Committees and Aalto University's Doctoral Education Working Group (DEWG)

Event: Real Examples of Virtual Laboratories on 13 November 2023
Join us for a networking and knowledge sharing event on cutting-edge digital possibilities of digital twins, metaverse, virtual laboratories and learning environments.

Updates to ACRIS image uploads and display
A number of improvements to image upload, copyright and accessibility will be made during the maintenance break 16 October.

Albert Devasagayam Francis: We are bringing community gardening and beekeeping together
'My main aim is to have clean energy, which can happen far into the future. In beekeeping, I can see the impact at the end of each season.'
