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President's letter 27 January – Maintaining a sense of togetherness is important
We need each other, let's keep in touch online
Share your views to contribute in an assessment of universities’ administrative autonomy
Please answer the questions by 7 February
Professor Peter Lund receives Chinese award
Peter Lund has been given the Jiangsu International Science and Technology Cooperation Award in recognition for his contribution into the development of renewable energy, and for developing cooperation between the European Union and China.
OPEN CALL: Investment round: up to 2M€ for innovative sustainable energy projects / deadline 15.3.2021
Deadline: 15.3.2021
KIC involved: InnoEnergy
Scope: project must fit one of the 8 call categories (see below)
Funding: up to 2M€ / project including up to 1M€ for applied research
See all criteria listed below
For more info, contact Aalto EIT project manager Petri Allekotte petri.allekotte@aalto.fi
KIC involved: InnoEnergy
Scope: project must fit one of the 8 call categories (see below)
Funding: up to 2M€ / project including up to 1M€ for applied research
See all criteria listed below
For more info, contact Aalto EIT project manager Petri Allekotte petri.allekotte@aalto.fi
Universities preparing to organise entrance examinations on campuses
Applicants will be informed of how the entrance examinations will be carried out by 16 March.
Forbes AI Award to research on image-creating GAN models
The magazine pays tribute to the development of a model that starkly reduces the amount of data needed for generating new, artificial images
European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) Finnish Forum webinar on 25th January
One of the speakers is Karel Luyben, the first president of the EOSC Association and a member of board at Aalto University.
New steering groups kick off
The groups support strategy implementation and guide the university’s joint activities
Increased number of applicants for English-language bachelor’s programmes
Results will be published early June.
Suggest benchlearning case and optional audit area by 19.2.2021
Aalto University’s quality system will be audited again at the end of the year 2022.
Zoom problems due to the increase of usage
The high usage has been reflected in poor video and audio quality. Our supplier Nordunet is building a decentralized environment by locating services in data centers in different nordic countries.
Aalto Students and employer organizations met virtually at Aalto Talent Expo Online
Aalto Talent Expo Online was organized between 12th - 14th of January 2021. Thousands of online visit occurred during webinars and video meetings.
A new podcast reveals how computer science is involved in pretty much everything
A new Finnish podcast explains how technology plays a key role in solving different kinds of problems
Aalto granted 15.4 million euros for profiling
The objective is to produce revolutionary expertise in four areas: AI-driven healthcare, Computational imagination, Co-innovating circular systems and Leading for creativity
All Aalto students have access to gender studies
Hilma network offers courses for the students and training for teachers.
New funding to commercialise high-tech liquid-repelling coatings
New funding to get damage-resistant, liquid-repelling surfaces out of the laboratory and onto solar panels, skis, and more
Researchers developing computer game to treat depression
Playing a therapeutic action game can ease symptoms in patients with depression, and improve their cognitive performance
How to prepare for My Dialogues in 2021?
These videos and instructions help you to get ready for an effective My Dialogue discussion about goals, development and wellbeing with your supervisor and team.
Discovering new materials in data
FCAI member Milica Todorović uses computational methods for material science, training AI on her field's vast databases to speed up the search for tomorrow's functional materials.
Do you have questions about research data? Come meet the data agents!
Aalto University’s data agents are available weekly in Zoom.
