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Aalto Networking Platform

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Aalto Networking Platform

The Aalto Networking Platform initiative promotes cross-disciplinary actions in Aalto University’s seven key research areas. We bring together experts in science, technology, arts and business, across departments, supporting collaboration both inside and outside of Aalto.

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Featured stories, events, and other content by the Aalto Networking Platform.

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Funding for impact assessment research concerning the Helsinki Capital region

In the 2025 call for proposals, the Urban Impact project will allocate funding for two thematic areas: Urban development research and Employment research. Research call is open until 12 September 2025.

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Aalto Networking Platform Task Force

Key research areas

Learn more about activities in the seven key research areas of Aalto University.

Key Research Area: Energy solutions

The main focus in energy research and teaching are energy sciences, multidisciplinary energy technologies, and sustainable energy solutions.

View of Helsinki by night. Photo by Ioannis Koulousis.

Key Research Area: Arts and design

Art and creativity enable looking at the grand challenges of our time from a new perspective. Look past the imaginable and join us in changing the world in arts and design.

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Key Research Area: Digitalisation and AI

Digital technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and communications are cut through the whole society, from education to medicine and economics.

Aalto X Reality Keynote PiP by Matti Ahlgren

Key Research Area: Business and economics

Research related to business and economics include the areas of business, economics, industrial engineering and management.

General image of people gathered at Slush startup event, photo by Mikko Raskinen

Key Research Area: Health and well-being

Aalto University’s expertise in health and well-being is broad-based, with strong clusters of research groups such as in medical devices, health AI, neuroscience, and care-facility architecture.

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Key Research Area: Living environments

We are developing interdisciplinary research to enhance planning and engineering, architecture and design for better living environments.

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Key Research Area: Materials and natural resources

Materials research ranges from physics, nanotechnology, mechanics, performance and design to biomaterials and sustainable resource use.

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Related events

All upcoming events related to the Aalto Networking Platform.

The famous Yick Cheong building complex of Hong Kong, image showcasing the building density in the city.
Lectures and seminars

Built Environments for a Cooler Planet: Sustainable Urbanization Pathways for the World of 2075

The event brings together academics, university students, government officials, and business representatives from Finland and abroad to identify innovative solutions, competence needs and opportunities for climate-sensitive urban growth.
Uudistajat live podcast, guests Annu Nieminen, Tuomas Syrjänen, and Charlotte Guillou
Lectures and seminars

Driving renewal – Live podcast

The Uudistajat (Driving Renewal) podcast shares stories and insights from leaders and experts on how organizations drive, adapt and create sustainable change.
An illuminated gold-plated cryostat built by Bluefors sits on a black background.
Lectures and seminars

Quantum Strategy: The path to making quantum technology Finland’s next success story

Finland's new quantum strategy paves the way to global impact—this event highlights key steps toward quantum supremacy.
Event archive

Related news

All news related to the Aalto Networking Platform.

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Aalto Magazine, Research & Art Published:

What will tomorrow’s infrastructure be made of?

Construction remains a major climate culprit, yet it could also hold the key to cutting emissions. Change is already underway in infrastructure materials, as researchers, cities and companies work together to find more sustainable – even carbon-storing – ways to build.
Presidentti Sauli Niinistö
Awards and Recognition, Cooperation, University Published:

President Sauli Niinistö: ‘The future is brighter than it appears right now.’

Approximately 600 invited guests and alumni attended the event named after Chancellor Jaakko Honko at Aalto University Töölö
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Press releases Published:

New machine learning method offers better predictions of future disease risk

Predictions for developing common diseases were more accurate than before.
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Cooperation Published:

Advancing EDI competences across Europe

CKIR contributed to a European project advancing EDI competences. It created learning materials, organized courses and supported students’ internships.
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