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Director General Arvo Kokkonen to chair School of Engineering Stakeholder Advisory Board
The School of Engineering Stakeholder Advisory Board, launched in 2021, promotes the impact of the school's research and education among Finnish industries and society.
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.
Multidisciplinary research project based on origami seeks solutions for industrial needs
A joint project covering the fields of mathematics, engineering and arts is about to start at Aalto, where the aim is to study and develop folding technology for the needs of industry. In addition ºÚÁÏÍø, the project includes VTT as coordinator, and several companies from the forest industry to the machine design and cosmetics brands, such as Stora Enso, Metsä Group, Lumene, Mirka, Elomatic, Anpap, Orfer and Soften. Business Finland granted funding for the Co-Innovation project.
A record number of applications to English bachelor’s programmes
Aalto University received altogether 7 362 applications to these programmes.
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.
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
Master’s programmes attracted a high number of applications
Aalto University received 5925 applications to master’s programmes.
Plastic and carton collection to every building on the campus
Waste sorting is changing on the campus at the beginning of the year 2022. Plastic and carton collection points will be added to break rooms.
Exhibition concentrating on data is rare, even internationally
The new Data Vitality exhibition lets you sense and feel data like never before
Dipoli and Undergraduate Centre outdoor construction sites paused for winter
The work is to be completed by summer 2022.
Two new buildings to be built in the centre of Otaniemi campus
Building Otakaari 2A & 2B begins in January 2022, construction to be completed by summer 2023
Product design course focusing on the challenges of the crane industry – corporate cooperation bearing fruit
Aalto University students look for solutions to challenges faced by Konecranes.
The range of climate courses broadens: Aalto and 17 other universities cooperate as Climate University
The Climate University network coordinated by the University of Helsinki has formed a teaching cooperation contract between 18 universities. With these new contracts, a majority of Finnish university students can take the network’s climate and sustainability themed courses.
