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‘Solo dwellers’ domestic spatial needs are rarely met in one-room apartments’
‘I claim’ series presents our researchers and the results of their work. Anne Tervo examines solo dwellers’ spatial needs.
My Kauppis Memory: The 1986 jubilee year symposium featured presentations from future Nobel prize winners
‘The symposium in Korpilampi was unforgettable.’
Cutting-edge research and infrastructure is one of the four School of Business key strategic initiatives
The aim is to help researchers to succeed in their research even better.
DiCtion Delivers Building Blocks for the Digital Future of Construction
Transparent processes between stakeholders, distributed situational picture, and linked data with shared ontologies will transform the building industry. They will also enable new business models in the construction sector. Those were the key outcomes of the DiCtion project, which has released a compendium of its research results.
AI technique captures complexity of human faces to help create realistic photo edits
The ability to distil images to their most essential components and anticipate new scenes is what could drive computer vision and robotics forward
Northern Dimension Newsflash 1/2021 has been published
In this newsletter, you can read about the updated events calendar and the interesting activities carried out in cooperation with the ND Partnerships in the fields of environment, transport and logistics, health and social well-being, and culture.
Understanding connections: Climate Change, Health and Architecture
What does climate change and architecture have in common? We dig deeper into the course topics with course faculty Professor of Practice Laura Arpiainen and Adjunct Professor Matti Kuittinen. In this course, students will learn how to design and build for a better future and contribute to positive change.
Lappset Prize to Landscape Architect Johanna Tuokko
In her Master's thesis, Tuokko investigates how virtual landscape modeling can be utilized in the participation of spatial planning.
Method yielding more accurate total energies could boost quantum chemistry calculations
CEST researchers publish new method calculating total energies efficiently and accurately
€2.75m awarded to European consortium to solve market failure of artificially scarce digital goods
A new economic category for abundant goods — anti-rival goods that increase in value when shared — forms the basis of research to be conducted by ATARCA consortium. ATARCA aims to create a new economic system in which digital goods are no longer traded with mediums of exchange, such as fiat money, but with mediums of sharing.
Finnish Cultural Foundation awards Kunal Ghosh with PhD grant
Kunal Ghosh (CEST group) was awarded a Finnish Cultural Foundation grant for his doctoral studies
Silja Sormunen and Erik Härkönen received the prestigious School of Science Master’s Thesis Awards
Only about 1% of Aalto School of Science graduates received such an award
The H2020 project of the European University Alliance Unite! officially launched
Aalto University and the other 6 partner universities will develop a joint Research&Innovation agenda in synergy with their education dimension contributing to the European Research Area together with the European Education Area
‘It's worth a peek behind the familiarity: atypical actions bring joy to everyday life’
'I claim' series presents our researchers and the results of their work. Oona Tikkaoja examines everyday anomalies.
A recent study "Collaboration and Innovation in the Northern Dimension Countries" by the ND Partnership on Culture
A recent study published by the Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC) suggests, amongst other findings, that there are seven important cross-sectoral innovation elements that should be taken into account when developing policy in this area.
International Women's Day 2021 - celebrating the women of PHYS!
Article highlighting the accomplishments of the women from the Physics Department
Alumna Juulia Suvilehto is studying how coronavirus is affecting social behaviour and touching
The research targets Nordic countries, and it is still possible to participate in the study. On International Women's Day Suvilehto wants to thank inspiring female role models and to draw attention to the fact that women tend to be the ones who take care of community well-being.
Entrepreneurs build the future instead of predicting it
Get behind the scenes with the teachers behind this year’s courses at Aalto University Summer School. Lidia Borisova, Head of Education, Aalto Ventures Program and Simo Lahdenne, university teacher, dig deeper into their course Entrepreneurial Path.
Aalto is a partner in the New European Bauhaus initiative
The EU initiative imagines future ways of living by combining design, culture, social inclusion, science and technology.
