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Open Innovation Challenge for Students (Call is open until 31. March 2025)
Are you ready to tackle one of the three significant environmental challenges? Do you have ideas on how to overcome these challenges?
Chemical engineering student Ella Haravuori combines bioproduct development and food sciences
Ella Haravuori studies chemical engineering at Aalto University and food sciences at the University of Helsinki. Ella is particularly interested in biobased packaging materials that can replace plastics in food packaging.
Destination: Doctorate continues with sessions on motivation and enhancing focus
Theme sessions to support the progress of doctoral students and to help them advance their doctoral thesis and studies.
Study entrepreneurship on the U!Train journey across Europe. Apply by April 7.
Join the exciting train journey from Darmstadt to Graz, focusing on entrepreneurship, sustainability, and multicultural collaboration.
PORT_2025 brings Aalto students together to tackle sustainability and AI challenges
PORT_2025 brought Aalto University students together to tackle sustainability & AI challenges, fostering innovation and collaboration with mentorship from industry leaders.
Preparing curricula 2026鈥2028: Goals for the curriculum work published to support development of the programmes
Our shared goals in curriculum design are strengthening the status of national languages Finnish and Swedish alongside English, strengthening the employability of international students in Finland and integrating the cross-cutting approaches of sustainability, radical creativity, and an entrepreneurial mindset into the programmes.
Radical creativity online course reached 10,000 registrants
By practicing creativity, you develop the skills and mindset needed to overcome obstacles and solve various challenges.
Students developed the store-picking process in Prisma stores
A total of five groups of students wanted to solve a challenge by the S Group
Aalto University School of Business students appreciate the international culture of their school, the high quality of its programmes and its career services
In the Universum global survey, students at the School of Business gave their own school consistently better ratings than their peer schools received from their own students, according to the survey
Student Anusha Porwal: Studies build a strong foundation for understanding speech and language technologies
Anusha Porwal is studying Signal, Speech and Language Processing as a master's student. The field of speech and language technology is developing rapidly, and her studies at Aalto have provided her with a good foundation for understanding the real challenges and future development of the field.
New business & management e-books
Aalto University has acquired new Edward Elgar e-books in the field of business and management.
Work experience helped Hang Le in choosing the right major
Top-tier teaching, flexible studies and an inspiring peer network are software engineer Hang Le鈥檚 favourite things about Aalto University鈥檚 Computer, Communication and Information Sciences Master鈥檚 Programme.
Alum Philipp Hummel: 鈥楳eaningful work revolves around three key aspects鈥
Our Global Management alum Philipp Hummel works as a Consultant at Bain & Company. For him, meaningful work revolves around three key aspects: broader positive impact, personal growth, and flexibility.
Open university courses for summer 2025 have been published!
Most of the open university courses for summer have been added to our course selection.
A language-supported study path enhances technology students' employability
Higher education institutions in the Helsinki metropolitan area are working together to develop language-aware teaching. The Aalto sub-project focuses on the technology sector. It integrates Finnish as a second language studies into an English-language bachelor's degree. Students will receive language-related counseling. Content studies will be integrated in collaboration with technology teachers.
Apply for a 2鈥6-month research internship in Japan!
Aalto鈥檚 Master and PhD students can apply for a 2鈥6-month internship at the National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Japan.
Make the most out of your summer in Finland with Aalto University Summer School
Why visit Finland in the summer? Everyone should experience the never-setting Nordic summer sun, the clean air, the hundreds of thousands of lakes and islands, and the slower way of life at least once.
EIT Jumpstarter Programme 2025
The EIT Jumpstarter is an award-winning pre-acceleration programme funded by the European Union designed to help validate innovative ideas and develop business skills to create and run innovative start-ups. The programme focuses on talents coming from countries located in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, where the pace of innovation is moderate or emerging.
Olli-Pekka Pentj盲rvi develops biorefining technologies: 鈥淲ith chemical engineering skills, I can influence industrial environmental issues.鈥
Studies in chemical engineering led Olli-Pekka Pentj盲rvi to launch a new biorefinery plant that produces bioethanol from bamboo to reduce transport emissions. Olli-Pekka's work is to scale biorefining technologies to an industrial scale. Chemical engineering provided Olli-Pekka with extensive tools and networks for solving industrial environmental issues.
Publication of Master's theses information in Aalto's research portal delayed
Publication of Master's theses information in Aalto's research portal delayed