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China鈥檚 new five-year plan to focus on technological development and carbon neutrality 鈥 as well as serving the country鈥檚 rapidly growing middle class
The plan has global significance because China usually achieves the goals it sets out

Students carried out mobile device user survey for Posti鈥檚 parcel drivers
The project also included investigation on how the digitalization of the working environment affects the employee experience of the drivers.

Parallel paths: Designer and materials scientist conjure up glimmering colours out of wood
Designer Noora Yau and materials scientist Konrad Klockars have used wood to conjure up a colour, which is transparent yet glows like a copepod in shallow water. The pair鈥檚 good chemistry and open attitude towards asking silly questions is a great help in their work.

Building European cities with wood would sequester half of cement industry鈥檚 current carbon emissions
Model shows that slowly increasing the use of wood in European construction could increase the carbon storage of buildings by 420 million CO2 tons over the next 20 years

Drive faster, or get fired
New book by Professor Henri Schildt explains how AI is changing management mindsets and the future of work

Business & Economics at Aalto rises to 53rd place in Times Higher Education ranking
Computer Science also places in the top 100 globally.

Distribution rights system will raise fuel prices - compensation for people with low income will only require a fraction of the revenue from system
Economists developed possible compensation models based on extensive person and vehicle data. The report was published at a Ministry of Transport and Communications webinar on 27 October.

Towards interfaces that distinguish user鈥檚 visual attention
Dissertation of the Month: What if interfaces we use are able to distinguish whether we are looking at them or not, and change their behavior accordingly?

Argumenta project for the professorship of history of architecture and architectural conservation
The project aims at deepening and increasing public discussion and societal impact on the fate of the modern building stock.

Hollywood costume design goes sustainable
A textile artist sees natural materials as the future for costumes in television and film.

Simple accuracy boost for core excitation calculations
Relativistic corrections that are important for core excitations in molecules and materials are incorporated in complex quantum mechanical calculations in an efficient manner.

Learning to unlearn: What could radically creative education be?
Juuso Tervo is urging us not only to learn new things, but also to unlearn the already learned.

Towards trustworthy AI and an autonomous Europe
Professor Michela Milano is the Deputy President of EurAI and one the keynote speakers at AI Day 2020

New Aalto University Open Science and Research Policy was published
The guiding principle of Aalto University Open Science and Research policy is 鈥榓s open as possible, as closed as necessary鈥. This means that research outputs should be open if there is no valid reason to restrict access to them. Aalto University Research Services provides help in research data management and opening publications, data, protocols and code.

Aalto ARTS Books participates in the Helsinki and Frankfurt Book Fairs
Both the Helsinki Book Fair and the world's largest book fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair, will take place online this year due to the covid-19 pandemic.

Artist group IC-98鈥檚 staircase artwork Mare Tranquillitatis has been installed at Aalto University
The artwork makes the three spiral staircases of the School of Business a zone of tranquillity and silence.

High-speed photos shine a light on how metals fail
By combining experimental and theoretical work, researchers discover what happens when metals are stretched to their yield point

Doctoral thesis: organisations that treat employees like children undermine their skill and well-being
Bosses and employees can engage eachother in damaging 鈥減arent-child鈥-like relationships, according to research by Peter Kentt盲. Smart management can avoid these roles, and handle them better when they unavoidably occur.

ITP has been championing change and innovation for 25 years
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Aalto University鈥檚 flagship minor program Information Technology Program (ITP), let's take a look at what makes this program so unique.
