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Summer School Alum Story: 'Working with living materials gives you new perspectives every day'
Students are taking action for a sustainable future with natural materials at the Aalto University Summer School course Nordic Biomaterials.
Business is sustainability and sustainability is business
The year 2024 can be called the year of sustainability, as the School of Business continued to strongly promote sustainability in its research, teaching and other activities, which was also recognised with awards
The Turnitin similarity and AI reports as part of the master's thesis submission starting from January 2025
Starting in January 2025, a Turnitin similarity report will be generated from the same file for all master's theses submitted for evaluation, approval, and archiving.
New life for construction waste wood
In Finland, almost all waste wood from construction ends up being burned, even though it could play a major role in the development of ecological growing media. New research shows that steam-treated waste wood can replace peat as a growing medium and offers promising results in plant germination and root growth.
Aalto University's Finnish Design Push: Empowering SMEs and Design students
The Finnish Design Push, a joint initiative between School of Arts, Design and Architecture and Technology Industries of Finland, started collaboration with five SME technology companies by exploring design integration into their digital services.
Trial use for Cambridge University Press e-books
The books in trial use are available for reading until the end of November 2025.
Creativity supported boxing and vice versa
Eva Wahlström, an Aalto alum who has boxed for 25 years, shared her memories of the people and experiences that were ultimately more important to her than success and medals
Dean's List 2023–2024 of the School of Engineering
Students have now been selected for the Dean's List 2023–2024 based on their academic performance in the previous academic year.
New pedagogical micro course available: Quickstart for University Teaching
Welcome to the new pedagogical micro course, Quickstart for University Teaching. The course is targeted for new teachers, visiting lecturers, professors of practice and everyone interested in pedagogy. The course is available online for self-study, structured into five sequential topics, and it takes approximately two hours to complete.
The AllWell? student survey is open 30.1.-13.2.2025
Hello, second-year bachelor’s student or first-year master’s student, how are you?
Respond to the AllWell? student survey!
Respond to the AllWell? student survey!
Supporting your study ability and wellbeing, December 2024
Dear student! Aalto offers services, guidance and self-study materials that support your study ability and wellbeing.
Invitation to answer survey: Students, housing, and social spaces: where do you live, why, & what do you think of it?
The purpose of this voluntary survey is to understand the students' housing situation in Finland.
New guideline: Aalto University Code of Academic Integrity in Studies
A new guideline, the Aalto University Code of Academic Integrity in Studies will enter into force on 1 January 2025. The code, approved by the University Academic Affairs Committee in September 2024, will replace the previous similar guideline approved in 2011, the Aalto University Code of Academic Integrity and Handling Violations thereof.
Register for courses in good time on Sisu
Register for courses in Sisu during the registration period.
CoDaS Master’s Programme in Communications and Data Science (Erasmus Mundus) – Application period open!
CoDaS is an international joint master’s degree programme offered by five European universities.
Fees put on all applications for return of study right; handling fee to rise in 2025
As of 1 January 2025, the fee for application handling will be 50 euros. A service break lasting about a week will occur in early January while the system is being upgraded.
Bachelor's theses in technology will be possible to publish at Aaltodoc from the beginning of year 2025
From the beginning of year 2025, the publication of all bachelor's theses in the field of technology in the Aalto university’s Aaltodoc publication archive will become possible. This change now also offers technology students the same opportunity to publish their thesis as ARTS and BIZ students already have.
Educational Opportunities Across Europe – check the Unite! Student Catalogue
Academic and extracurricular offerings from nine universities in the Unite! alliance.
Aalto to start e-diploma system in autumn 2025
The electronic degree certificate is an official original document bearing the digital signature of the school dean.Â
Open positions: Teaching assistants for spring semester 2025 to the EEA Department
The Department of Electrical Engineering and Automation is looking for teaching assistants for two different courses that run during spring semester 2025.
