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5G test network development continues in Otaniemi
The 5G test network will soon be 6G, and new technologies are developed for both wireless and fixed networking.

Finland creates an educational package to make cybersecurity a civic skill across the European Union
Researchers at Aalto University are creating an educational package on cybersecurity, which will be shared with all EU countries. Finland has been awarded EUR 5 million for this project from the EU recovery instrument for a three-year period.

Space 21 - a project space for experimentation!
Space 21, a project space for the use of all Aalto community, opened its doors in spring 2022

Summer Job Day 2022 fluently turned into a virtual event
Summer Job Day 2022 recruitment fair was organized virtually on 19-20 January 2022 on JobTeaser.

EUR 11 million for research infrastructures
The Academy of Finland funding strengthens, among other things, fabrication of micro and nanostructures, quantum and high-performance computing, biomedical imaging, future wireless networks, and arctic research

New power transfer technology provides unprecedented freedom for wireless charging
Devices can be charged regardless of their position or orientation and even on the go.

Where would you like to sit down, which part of the campus needs garden benches? Leave your proposal!
Propose where new garden benches and different kinds of plants will be set up to the campus in spring 2022.
Theory U - How to lead from the future while it emerges?
Creative people, like artists and scientists, invent and create the new by stepping from the visible world into the invisible world of imagination, and then returning back into the visible. We all can develop our sensitivity, intuition and leadership capabilities to increase creativity.

A record number of applications to English bachelor’s programmes
Aalto University received altogether 7 362 applications to these programmes.

Groundbreaking light sources can increase effectiveness and security of transferring quantum information
Researchers at Aalto University plan to build a revolutionary LED light source to generate entangled photon pairs. The research group led by Professor Pertti Hakonen has received three-year funding from the Future Makers Funding Program of Technologies Finland Centennial Foundation and Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation.

Aalto University strong in ranking for international outlook
Times Higher Education’s listing ranked Aalto 40th in the world and 3rd in the Nordics

2022 brings new opportunities for the future of Unite!
In 2022 Unite! alliance is preparing for the new Erasmus+ call for European Universities Initiative and will be strengthened by two new partners.

Student Reetta Kälvälä wants to use technology to develop better cancer treatments
Reetta studies bioinformation technology, and she thinks university seems easier than upper secondary school because she can study according to her own schedule.

Two linden trees near Otaniementie to be renewed
The trees will soon be given a new life as decaying wood art.

Register for Research Data Management and Open Science Training in Spring 2022!
Aalto Research Data Management Network organises training in research data management and open science in spring 2022.

Three flagships receive continued funding
Materials Bioeconomy FinnCERES, Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI and the platform for photonics research PREIN have received the Academy of Finland’s funding for second flagship term

Learning for the future: systemic solutions require new ways of learning and collaborating
Aalto offers its staff a chance to experiment with transformative learning method, that can initiate changes in mindsets and remove invisible barriers to creativity

Aalto University announces two art competitions for a campus block under construction
Proposals can be sent 4.1.-4.4.2022 for the competition open to all artists, arranged for the first time
Alumna Bismoy Jahan: The things I learned from Aalto are related to real-life problems
Bismoy Jahan chose the Master’s Programme in Automation and Electrical Engineering because she believes that in the near future automation will play a big role in our lives.
