1.5 Degree Lifestyles
1.5 Degree Lifestyles is a case study about opportunities and suggested pathways for household level carbon footprint reductions to slow global warming to 1.5 degrees, as targeted by the Paris Agreement of the United Nations.
Circular economy
Circular economy keeps materials in use longer using strategies like reuse, remanufacture, recycling, and replacing ownership with rentals.
Accessible Aalto
Aalto University strives towards being an accessible, safe and healthy university where research, teaching and services are accessible for all.
Innovation for sustainability
Innovating new sustainable products, services, business models and forms of consumption can help tackle global challenges.
Sustainability transitions
Our research looks at several dimensions of the transition toward sustainability societies.
SDGs at Aalto University
Aalto University is the first Finnish university to sign universities' global Sustainable Development Goals Accord.
Aalto is committed to SDG´s
Aalto is the first Finnish university to sign universities´ global Sustainable Development Goals Accord. We are committed in implementing the SDGs in our activities.
Bio2Future course "Novel carbohydrate-based materials from microbes"
This course will be organized for summer 2023. It is target.
ed to postgraduate students, post-doctoral researchers and participants from industry with interest in polysaccharide-based biomaterials and products.
Bio2Future course "Wood construction in climate change mitigation"
EIT Climate-KIC PhD Catapult course will be held from 26th August to 6th September, 2019 in Aalto University, Espoo (Finland) and at Chalmers University, Gothenburg (Sweden). It will comprise a series of inspiring lectures from leading academics and experts in the field of building with wood, together with workshops, technical training sessions and challenge-based group activities.
Sustainable campus
The key environmental impacts of the campus are related to energy consumption and transport. A sustainable and carbon neutral campus is at the core of the campus strategy.
Sustainability reports
Science, technology and arts play an important role in solving global sustainability problems. Aalto University’s strength is its strong multidisciplinary approach to humanity’s greatest challenges, such as environmental crises.
Collaborators
At this point potential partners for commercializing the process have been identified as lime and fertilizer producers, waste transportation and processing companies and companies that offer process solutions.