News from innovation ecosystem
Money for student wellbeing: how would you spend 14 000 euros?
Submit your proposal for a participatory budgeting project to improve student wellbeing on campus by 21st September 2025. The winner of the feasible ideas will be voted on during 2025.
New machine learning method offers better predictions of future disease risk
Predictions for developing common diseases were more accurate than before.
Advancing EDI competences across Europe
CKIR contributed to a European project advancing EDI competences. It created learning materials, organized courses and supported students’ internships.
Keys to growth: Internationalisation brings talent, innovation and economic growth to Finland
Talent is fuel for the future — and Finland also needs it from abroad. Aalto and VTT have been internationalising rapidly, but the nation still has room for improvement in supporting international experts to put down roots.
Join the Unite! Engineering Biology second online matchmaking event on 25 September
The Unite! Engineering Biology initiative aims to unite researchers from all the nine partner universities in the Unite! alliance to advance key technologies and sustainable processes.
Unite!Energy Conference – Shaping the Future of Sustainable Energy
The annual Unite!Energy Conference 2025 will take place in Espoo, Finland, bringing together researchers, industry experts, and academics to explore energy storage, hydrogen technologies, and the future of clean energy.
Unite! Seed Fund 2025 – Aalto involved in 15 projects
From the 2025 Seed Fund call, 30 proposals were selected for funding. Aalto is involved in 15 of these projects and coordinates one.
UniSport Autumn 2025 – Energy and Well-being
UniSport offers versatile opportunities for exercise and recovery at sports centers, on campuses, and online.
ELLIS Institute Finland welcomes 9 new professors as principal investigators and PS Fellows
Institute's first recruitment brings nine leading researchers to Finland
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.
TexirC project meeting held at Valmet’s Fiber Technology Center
The results meeting of the TexirC project took place at Valmet’s Fiber Technology Center.
Annual meeting of textile chemistry group held
The Textile Chemistry Group convened its Annual Meeting on Friday, August 8.
Floorball and futsal for Aalto BIZ staff at the Otahalli sports hall – Welcome
If you are interested in getting some exercise in good company, you are warmly welcome to join!
Creating room for connection, dialogue, and collective planning is more important than ever
Two workshops were organised to build bridges and foster meaningful action on EDI at the Aalto School of Business.
Half of highly educated immigrants find employment through Espoo and Aalto’s collaboration
The exceptional employment outcomes are the result of collaboration, in which service design research has played a key role.
Teacher – here’s how you can add movement to teaching!
Interrupting long sedentary periods has positive effects on health and learning, so it would be beneficial to incorporate movement into teaching.
Satellite images reveal the positive effects of restoration in the northern hemisphere peatlands
Satellite data spanning over 20 years shows that the temperature and albedo of restored peatlands begin to resemble those of intact peatlands within about a decade
New quantum record: Transmon qubit coherence reaches millisecond threshold
The result foreshadows a leap in computational capabilities, with researchers now inviting experts around the globe to reproduce the groundbreaking measurement.
Startup Spotlight: Aalto Creatives Demo Day Celebrates New Innovations
Aalto Creatives pre-incubator programme hosted a Demo Day event at Marsio’s Living Room Stage in the end of May. The event featured eight pre-incubator participants showcasing their early-stage companies and a panel discussion about investing in the creative industries.
Call for Applications: Aalto Creatives pre-incubator programme starts in September
Join the Aalto Creatives afterwork and info session on 27.8.2025 to find out more about the open call and meet the Aalto Creatives team. At this event, alums from the pre-incubator will talk about their entrepreneurial journeys and share their experiences from participating in the AC programme.
