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SSH Connections to public Linux servers from outside the Aalto network will require both a password and a public key authentication from Monday 25 September onwards
We encourage you to create your ssh keys in advance, but you can still do it after the change.
New opportunity to receive funding for projects supporting equity and diversity
The School of Business prioritises an operating environment where equity and diversity atmosphere predominate. The members of our community can now propose how our values can be reflected in our activities more extensively than before
Lifewide learning seed funding for projects and faculty recruitment
The Autumn 2023 application round for lifewide learning seed funding is now open. Funding lifewide learning at Aalto University is intended to support our commitment to helping individuals, businesses, and society with upskilling and reskilling needs.
Suggest how you would use 13,000 eur for the wellbeing of Aalto University students!
Submit your proposal by September 29, 2023, for a participatory budgeting project to improve student wellbeing on campus. A winner will be voted on from the feasible ideas within the year 2023.
Monthly workshops encouraged a sense of community among doctoral students
It’s important to provide adequate resources for activities that support the EDI agenda
Schedule your autumn My Dialogues conversation
Check out these key tips for having a quality 1-1 discussion.
Aalto community members awarded for their impressive work
The recognition awards were granted to researchers from the Department of Applied Physics, the creators of Little Finlandia, the student Wappu, the quality audit team, and projects Kielibuusti, Finland Works, and Finland Studies – watch the videos and the recordings!
New academic year kicked off
Aalto Day One highlighted the community’s diversity and internationality
New Aalto Distinguished Professor Riitta Salmelin traces the brain’s own ‘fingerprint’
Riitta Salmelin believes that her field of brain imaging has matured to a stage where questions ignored in the early days can now be addressed
Ilkka Niemelä to the Finnish Government: Innovations and sustainable growth will be lost if immigration policies are implemented
Internationality has accelerated innovation and helped many Finnish companies from Aalto along their growth trajectories. Nearly half of Aalto University’s academic staff come from outside Finland, and Aalto students are from more than 100 countries.
Annukka Svanda: It's important to challenge yourself to do hard things
'I believe that those of us who can and are capable have a duty to work to make the world a little better place all the time. For example, we can try to improve the situation of those who are not so well off.'
The School of Chemical Engineering celebrated the annual Elojuhlat party
This year, we celebrated our new academic personnel as well as the remarkable career of Aalto Distinguished Professor, Jukka Seppälä. He will be getting a new title soon, which is Professor Emeritus.
Aalto personnel can participate in FIBS events free of charge
Aalto University is a member of the FIBS corporate responsibility network, so we can all take advantage of the membership fee paid by the university
Aalto IT Thursday News 7 September 2023 at 10 to 11
Join us to hear the latest on current topics of general interest for all Aaltonians, presented by Aalto IT.
Department of Civil Engineering seeks new head of department
The term of the head of department is 1.1.2024–31.12.2026.
Summer School alum story: Pursuing digital business excellence in a diverse learning environment
Summer school’s Digital Business course concludes, enriching participants with digital business skills and cultural experiences.
Aalto Social creates communities across boundaries
Get to know the communities of our own internal social media and visit to have a chat - and please do attend the opening ceremony of the academic year at Aalto Social as well!
Visual identity tweaked for better accessibility, new platform brand.aalto.fi
Colours are brighter to work better in digital channels. New open-source fonts Inter and Besley replace the licensed ones. Brand.aalto.fi comprises brand-related info and assets.
Education collaboration generates new ideas for using design
The School of Arts, Design and Architecture has a long tradition of working together with companies to solve challenges of many kind. Last spring, design students designed concrete speaker models for audio equipment manufacturer Genelec.
