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Otaniemi campus opening hours during summer 2022
Otaniemi campus and Aalto University Töölö opening hours during summer 2022

Portable and quick analytics tool can revolutionise the pain killer diagnostics market
Fepod Oy Ltd, an Aalto University based start-up, has developed an analysis tool that allows healthcare professionals to measure the concentration of paracetamol, opioids and other painkillers real concentration in a single drop of blood.

Bioinnovation Center kicked off
Aalto University Bioinnovation Center has kicked off its operations and celebrated its opening in a launching event on June 1, 2022.

Aalto RDM & Open Science Training Attracted 2,800 Registrations This Academic Year
The webinars continue to be highly rated and most are already publicly available on YouTube.

'Mentoring is inspiring and fun' - Aalto International Talent Program offers a meaningful way to support international students
This year the group mentoring initiative brought together over 180 international students and 17 companies.

The participatory budgeting project culminated in a happy planting workshop
One Euro for Every Student project culminated in a planting workshop in mid-May on the new garden benches

Back to the future products
The 25th anniversary gala of the PDP course took place on the 13th of May at Design Factory. Many interesting future products such as electric wooden boat, extremely precise factory crane and edible packing material were presented at the Gala.

Your invitation to Life 1.5
Save the date/planet: Welcome to our fourth Designs for a Cooler Planet festival, 7.9–12.10.2022 in Otaniemi, Espoo.

Ascending Investigator Grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation awarded to Maria Sammalkorpi for computational biosynthetic materials research
Senior Scientist Maria Sammalkorpi has been awarded the highly competed Ascending Investigator 2022 Grant from Novo Nordisk Foundation for a total of ca 9 million DKK (1.2M€).
TAPPI awards Professor emeritus Patrick Gane “Outstanding Educator”
TAPPI awards Professor emeritus Patrick Gane “Outstanding Educator”

Aalto University becomes a founding partner in Ioncell Oy
The new company will commercialise and develop ecological textile fibre technologies.

New Academy Research Fellows and postdoctoral researchers
Funding granted by the Academy of Finland brings six new Academy Research Fellows, and 14 postdoctoral researchers University – congratulations to all!

Melina Nummi enhances student mobility between Unite! universities
Melina Nummi is the planning officer for international mobility at Aalto University. Melina's interest in enabling internationalisation for everyone, comes from her own background as she has studied and worked outside Finland for quite many years.

Interruption to water supply in Otaniemi 9.5.2022
Water supply was cut before noon but returned to normal by midday

Open Access Publishing Is the Predominant Publishing Method at Aalto University – From 13% to 82% in Eight Years
We have come a long way since Aalto University published its first open access recommendation in 2014.

Nominate a winner for Aalto Pioneering Excellence Award
The award is given to teams that do pioneering work in the areas of education development, improvement of the excellence and impact of research and artistic activity; or the international success of the Aalto community.

Space 21 is now officially open – come visit and explore!
Radical Creativity team will be hosting monthly morning coffees at Space 21, the living room of Radical Creativity

Learn to sail skilfully through uncertain times
In May 2022 a group of Aaltonians participated in a workshop to increase capacity for change, learn to rely on intuition and challenge the current perceptions of learning and problem-solving

How does an oil company make a green leap? Can the procurement community help Ukraine out of trouble? Welcome to the Prodeko seminar on responsible business on 6 May!
The theme of this year's Prodeko seminar is Navigating Responsibility and Growth, and speakers include Kaisa Hietala, Exxon Mobil's Board of Directors, and Sammeli Sammalkorpi, CEO of Sievo Oy.
