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How to put education policy to the test
  Finland is testing changes in national education before committing to them – and showing how randcomized controlled trials can take the guesswork out of policy-making 
      
      
     
  Congratulations to the 50 year old Metsähovi Radio Observatory
  Exactly 50 years ago on April 11, 1974, the radio telescope in Kirkkonummi moved for the first time, and since then it has gathered data from outer space 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.   
      
      
     
  Aalto Open Science Award Honorary Mention 2023 – Professor Riikka Puurunen leads by example to foster sustainable open science
  We interviewed professor Riikka Puurunen, head of Catalysis research group at the School of Chemical Engineering, who received an honorary mention in the first Aalto Open Science Award.
      
      
     
  UPM supports Aalto University's pulp research and education
  High quality research enables high quality education 
      
      
     
  Why won’t some people use a smartphone? And is that difficult?
  Adjustments and flexibility are necessary to live without a smartphone
      
      
     
  Risto Ilmoniemi: The most important thing is having confidence that others will be there to support and help when needed
  'I have thought many times that I am going to give up the whole thing: this is not going to work. But I recover quickly: often already on the next day, optimism is reborn.'
      
      
     
  Writing retreats for doctoral students in Finnish
  Communal writing retreats during spring and early summer 2024 over Teams
      
      
    Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected
  New study shows that the default apps collect data even when supposedly disabled, and this is hard to switch off
      
      
     
  The European Artificial Intelligence flagship project DeployAI builds the AI on Demand Platform
  It enables industry and public sector to leverage on AI and generative AI technologies
      
      
     
  ACTOR Empowers Construction Workers with Process Automation
  The ACTOR project brings together six organizations to automate the collection and use of real-time data for construction management. We talked with Aalto University, Carinafour, and VTT to learn about their aspirations for the project.
      
      
     
  ACTOR Streamlines construction with automation and AI - Video
  The ACTOR webinar on March 27, 2024, discussed how real-time situational awareness is made possible by robotics, sensors, AI, machine learning, extended reality, and standardized data. The company partners of ACTOR showcased the techologies developed during the project.
      
      
     
  Get to know us: Assistant Professor Sandra Kaabel
  In this interview we got to know more about Assistant Professor Sandra Kaabel.
      
      
     
  Electron Physics group embraces open data
  A research group from the School of Electrical Engineering (ELEC) is changing its attitude towards open science. In addition to ensuring the open accessibility of published journal articles, they are now embracing a wider scope of open science principles. 
      
      
     
  Can creativity be measured, managed and thus grow a business? Researchers join forces with Finnish companies
  The Creative Leap research project, funded by Business Finland, aims to make creativity visible in business.  
      
      
     
  Aalto University shakes up construction practices at the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels
  The exhibition Time Out! will be on show in Brussels from 9 to 13 April 2024 as part of the NEB Festival.
      
      
     
  Aalto Open Science Award Third Place Awardee 2023 – Intelligent Robotics Research Group with the Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects project
  We interviewed the Intelligent Robotics Research Group with the Robotic Manipulation of Deformable Objects project, 3rd place awardees of the first Aalto Open Science Award.
      
      
     
  Read the Qual+ Newsletter
  We are excited to welcome you to the second Qual+ Newsletter and continue bringing you new ways of looking at methods within management studies. 
      
      
     
  Aalto focuses on pulp research to boost a shift to a low carbon economy
  A ground-breaking research programme together with universities, research organizations, and companies is established to reform the traditional pulping processes. As the target of the programme is industrial scale relevance, it requires a pool of scientists and the industry to work together internationally.
      
      
     
  The first report about Finnish business intelligence development published
  For a brighter future of Finnish university BI education and enhanced BI practices for Finnish companies!
      
      
     
  TTT4HPC - Tuesday Tools & Techniques for High Performance Computing
  Do you use supercomputers in your research work? Are you curious about making your computing faster and more efficient? Join us for TTT4HPC: four self-contained episodes on best practices in High Performance Computing. This is a great chance to enhance your computational skills. What you will learn is also used a lot outside academia whenever large scale computations are needed.
      
      
     
   
           
           
           
           
           
          