Events Library
Events Library compiles all information you need for creating an event.
Events and campus experience
Communications services offer variety of support for organising events and event marketing. Large community events like Day One and academic traditions are organized by communications team as well as developing the campus experience in the long term.
Instructions for organising events and exhibitions
Events Library collects a wide set of instructions, tips and tricks for anyone arranging events in Aalto.
Tools for organising events
Registrations can be collected in many different services. Webropol is simple and among the most common ones. Blackthorn (a Salesforce tool) can do much more than that. Read more on the page below.
Event Management Tool (Blackthorn/Salesforce)
Allows users to create event webpages, collect registrations, and send marketing and transactional emails.
Developing our campus experience
Exhibitions
We arrange two major exhibitions per year. One in the spring with varying themes, and Designs for a Cooler Planet in the fall.
Campus visits
We host campus visits for VIP guests, high school students, OPOs etc.
Marsio
Marsio is an open meeting space, event and exhibition venue, enabler of interdisciplinary research and art. Marsio events are facilitated by Communications services.
Aalto art collection
Aalto University uses one percent of building costs to fund art. Art collection is curated by communications services.
Prominent art at Aalto University
Aalto University promotes visibility and impact of art and creativity both in society and at our own campus. Aalto University uses one percent of building costs to fund art.
See also
Academic events and traditions
Academic events cover the entire academic year from Aalto Day One all the way to the Ceremony Week with the graduation party and ceremonial conferments. Tenured professors' Installation Talks and public defences spread throughout the academic year.
Designs for a Cooler Planet
Aalto University’s biggest annual exhibition showcases interdisciplinary experiments from our researchers and students. Designs for a Cooler Planet will be held next in the autumn of 2026.
Designs for a Cooler Planet awarded with a prestigious Helsinki Design Award
Designs for a Cooler Planet, Aalto University’s biggest annual exhibition showcasing the latest experiments, innovations, and prototypes by students and researchers, has received the prestigious Helsinki Design Award. The nearly two-month-long exhibition is now open on Aalto University’s campus, Espoo.
Marsio
The new meeting place on Aalto University campus. Experience tomorrow!
Aalto University Shop
Aalto University Shop brings together a selection of Aalto ARTS Books publications, student and alumni works and sustainably-minded Aalto University products.
Public events
Guest talk: Taha Yasseri "A New Sociology of Humans and Machines"
Taha Yasseri from Trinity College Dublin and Technological University Dublin will give a guest talk at the Department of Computer Science
Machine Learning Meetups
Join the biweekly Meetups to discuss with experts in machine learning
Summer Job Day 2026
During this live event, arts, design, technical and business students meet employers offering summer jobs.
Better Business — Better Society seminar: Leadership for Growth
Better Business — Better Society Seminar Series offers opportunities to learn about and discuss current societally important topics monthly.Exhibitions
Campus and buildings
Campus
Aalto University's campus in Otaniemi is the home of an innovative community.
Explore the campus virtually at virtualtour.aalto.fi.
Visiting Aalto University
Every year Aalto University welcomes thousands of visitors from all over the world. This page gives an overview on how visitors can experience Aalto University campus based on the objective and duration of the visit. If you are not able to travel to our campus or don't have enough time to explore while visiting, check virtual tours and exhibitions section to learn how you can discover Aalto University campus remotely. Aalto University staff and students acting in a host role can utilise Visitor Experience Guide section in planning a visit for their delegation.
Opening hours of campus buildings and lobby services
Otaniemi campus and Töölö