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.
Liveto – for virtual events
The virtual event platform Liveto supports presenting and hosting academic meetings and conferences online, offering Aalto faculty the possibility to keep up with academic networks and offer high-standard collaboration tools for our new way of working.
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 at Marsio, Otakaari 2. Open 5 Sept – 28 Oct 2025.
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
A! Walk
A! Walks is a summer course centered around walking-based learning, exploring Otaniemi campus and its surrounding urban–natural spaces. Rather than standalone lectures or experiments, the program is designed as a curated sequence of sensory, interdisciplinary walks, guiding participants toward experiences in coexistence, awareness, action, and futures. If successful, A! Walks may be continued during the regular semester.
Puhutaan suomea - Learning Finnish together!
Welcome to learn and practice your Finnish skills!
A! Walk
A! Walks is a summer course centered around walking-based learning, exploring Otaniemi campus and its surrounding urban–natural spaces. Rather than standalone lectures or experiments, the program is designed as a curated sequence of sensory, interdisciplinary walks, guiding participants toward experiences in coexistence, awareness, action, and futures. If successful, A! Walks may be continued during the regular semester.
TexirC seminar day
Join for a day of talks on polymer and textile recycling technlogy!Exhibitions
ANTI-SELFIE — IMAGES AND DISCUSSIONS ABOUT SELFHOOD
Media art exhibition and discussions about selfhood
'Finland: zoom in, zoom out' exhibition
‘Finland: zoom in, zoom out’ exhibition invites you to celebrate the essence of Finnish nature through the eyes of two visual artists—Lidia Rauramo and Valeria Azovskaya, Aaltonians by training and occupation. The exhibition offers a space for contemplation, encouraging you to see the nuances, shapes, and shades of Finnish nature both broadly and intimately. Something that we often miss within the course of our busy life. Welcome!
Slush is a not-for-profit organization on a mission to help and create founders to change the world. Based in Helsinki, Slush annually hosts the world’s leading startup event bringing together a curated crowd of European startups, world-class investors, and tech journalists. We stand by relevance over scale, bringing tangible value, and sharing actionable company-building advice. No fluff.
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