Call texts for Research Council of Finland’s spring 2024 call out now
The Research Council of Finland has open funding calls in spring for Antarctic research, international collaboration in high-performance computing, and the roadmap call for research infrastructures. The deadline for applications is May 8, 2024, except for the roadmap call for research infrastructures (FIRI2024), which has a deadline on May 15, 2024.
Metsähovi Radio Observatory turns 50 and gets new telescopes
Students helped design and build the new telescopes, which expands the opportunities for multidisciplinary space research and education
Chemical engineering student Ronja Korhonen became interested in Aalto University after being inspired by her sister
Ronja Korhonen moved from Jyväskylä to Espoo, inspired by her sister who studied at Aalto University.
Bachelor’s and master’s students: Remember to pay your healtcare fee no later than 15 March
Students pay a healthcare fee to Kela, the Social Insurance Institution of Finland.
Additional travel services for Tenure Track Professors
Travel Services offers expanded travel services to all Aalto Tenure Track professors starting March 6, 2024.
Aalto travel instructions updated 4.3.2024
Aalto University launched a remote work trial abroad on March 4, 2024. The Aalto travel instructions have been updated to accommodate situations where remote work is combined with business travel.
Genuine networking is about meeting people as people
For School of Business alum Jude Kokkonen, people and doing things together is a matter close to his heart
Updated documents for teaching competence assessment will be taken into use 1.4.
Updated Aalto documents for teaching competence assessment will be taken into use from 1st April 2024.
Nominate your choice for the Award for Quality Teaching
Nominate your choice for the Award for Quality Teaching
Solve the SDGs Hackathon in the School of Business between 22 and 24 March 2024
The construction work of the event will start on Thursday, 21 March
Significant Grant for Greener Semiconductor Technology from Business Finland
Aalto University, in collaboration with the industrial partners Applied Materials in Finland (Picosun), PiBond and Volatec has been awarded a major Business Finland grant.
AI-powered personalized medicine is on the horizon
People have to be in the loop when machine learning is adapted for medical use.
‘If we make informed and thoughtful choices, it can catalyse diversity in our community’
On 27 February 2024, Assistant Professor Jaana Vapaavuori hosted a breakfast event to catalyze all kinds of diversities, in conjunction with the U.N. Day of Women and Girls in Science. Different diversities can be, for example: ideas, identities, representations, backgrounds, experiences, and bodies.
Lifewide Learning Community for Teachers launched in Teams
The Lifewide Learning Community for Teachers, now accessible on Teams, supports a culture of continuous education, innovation, and multidisciplinary collaboration among the university's teaching staff.
UniSport campaign for university staff in March
During March you have an unique opportunity to get to know UniSport's seasonal training card services free of charge. Take your colleagues with you and come and exercise together, for example in Classes for University staff. Welcome to UniSport!
Pitching in ice cold water and childbirth are both leaps into the unknown
The Natal Mind research team won the Polar Bear Pitching competition last weekend in Oulu. Obstetrician Aura Pyykönen tells us what it was like to pitch in the ice-cold water. Annika Järvelin, Riikka Lemmetyinen and Henni Tenhunen are other members of the winning team at Aalto Department of Industrial Engineering and Management.
Compliance with export control and sanctions increasingly important in research projects
Find the renewed and comprehensive information package on aalto.fi
Rofice Dickson has been appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering
Ph. D. Rofice Dickson has been appointed five-year fixed term Assistant Professor position at the Department of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering as of 1 September 2024. The field of the professorship is Circular and Sustainable Chemical Engineering.
Humans have driven the Earth’s freshwater cycle out of its stable state
New analysis shows that the global freshwater cycle has shifted far beyond pre-industrial conditions
Inspiring encounters in the US with alumni and friends highlighting radical creativity
Inspiring encounters in the US: alumni and friends are important in fostering collaboration and radical creativity
