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Increase your team's interaction and ability to change
Stress decreases our wellbeing, creativity and capacity for change. Radical Creativity team organised two embodied practices workshops to boost collective resilience and renewal. You can try the exercises with your team.
LEDs change laboratory measurements of light
Measurements of LED lighting become more reliable when 90-years old reference spectrum of incandescent lamps is complemented with a new reference spectrum of white LEDs.
Journeys of inspiration: three paths to professorship
Three newly tenured Aalto professors share their story
Finland creates common model for EU member states for teaching cybersecurity skills to citizens
The Cyber Citizen Project will create a model for teaching cybersecurity skills to citizens and a related learning portal.
Ninni Norra nabs a School of Business student place via the special achievements category
The special achievement (erityiset saavutukset) referred to in this applicant category may be any achievement in entrepreneurship, leadership, volunteerism, sports, music, art, or science and technology that is particularly significant compared to the average in the same age group
Various career paths: tax expert Saara Hietanen is building a better world
Saara Hietanen became interested in organisational activities in upper secondary school through her love for animals, but only started a career in organisations and advocacy work after working in an international auditing company. Instead of animal rights, Hietanen ended up promoting fair taxation.
Learn better ways of thinking at the new Thinking Tools course
Improve your wellbeing through practical thinking tools.
63 energy guzzlers - tips from the community helped to save energy on the campus
The Aalto community started campus-wide energy saving measures in Otaniemi on 10 October 2022, and we also joined the national Down a Degree energy saving campaign
Solve the SDGs returns — now on two continents
Join the sustainability hackathon by AVP and Junction, organized simultaneously in Finland, Uganda and Tanzania on 31.3.–2.4.
Aalto university innovation groups receive over €4M funding for sustainable innovations
Business Finland has granted research to business funding to seven new Aalto innovation projects. The funding is directed to commercialisation of university born inventions.
Language guidelines revised - Your input is welcome!
What works well, what should be changed in Aalto University's language policy? Tell what you think and answer a survey by 3 March
Online course "Forests, wood and carbon" available for all in Aalto Open University
You may follow the course independently during May 2023.
The 2022 Award for Achievements in Teaching to University Teacher Henry Gustavsson
Gustavsson's long-term meritorious stakeholder cooperation has enabled the students to have a memorable, motivating and working life skills enhancing learning experience.
Aalto University students combine an open microprocessor with an AI accelerator
In the recent past, Aalto students implemented a simple processor. Now, they have further refined its structure and combined it with an AI accelerator.
Manage, Measure, and Reward: Nurturing a Culture of Innovation in Posti
Two students from the School of Business developed innovation management for Posti
Professor Monika Österberg has been nominated as a member of the Forest Bioeconomy Science Panel
The Forest Bioeconomy Science Panel has 14 members, and it is set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.
Supporting your study wellbeing, February 2023
Aalto offers self-study materials, guidance and services that support student wellbeing. Below you will find more about the services available and links to useful materials.
Professor İdil Gaziulusoy: ‘Our future visions are not ambitious enough’
Presenting the new professors: Professor in sustainable design İdil Gaziulusoy
The Textile Artist of the Year is Laura Isoniemi
The Textile Artist of the Year award is the most prestigious textile art award in Finland.
Koen Van Leemput decodes medical scans with artificial intelligence
Greatest challenge is translating methods from lab settings to patient care, says Aalto University’s new professor