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Interdisciplinary course in Lisbon on plastic-free oceans- apply by 15 December
The course takes place online from January to April 2026 and face-to-face in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2026.
Shape the future of health, energy or defence with Linkage courses
Apply to Linkage courses and get a chance to work with industry leaders, innovators and fellow students on real-world challenges!
The Publication Forum Steering Group: Level 3 will be abandoned, and term 鈥淟evel 0鈥 will be discontinued
The discontinuation of Level 3 will not affect the university funding calculations for the years 2025鈥2028.
Changes to be made in 2026 to student file retention after expiry of right to study
Read more about the changes to the retention period for files and emails
To Code or Not to Code? Python or R? Or ChatGPT?
Is software coding a skill of the past with generative AI tools? Not at all! Join the open courses!
Use your voice: 14 000 euros for student wellbeing
In autumn 2025, students were asked to come up with ideas on how the university should spend 14 000 euros to improve student wellbeing on campus. Now it's time to vote for the best idea to be implemented during spring 2026.
Aalto 2040 鈥 share your views on our future
What should be considered in the long-term development of our education and research? Share your insights by 12 November!
Aalto Doctoral Education Services Receives Unite! Award
Aalto's Unite! Doctoral Education Team, led by Dr Minna S枚derqvist, received an award for their long-term efforts to enhance doctoral mobility and collaboration across the Unite! Alliance. The award ceremony took place during the XII Unite! DIalogue.
Publishing Research Data Alongside Research Articles
Data availability statements are increasingly required by scientific journals. They include information on what data are available, where they can be found, and any applicable access terms
Who publishes our open access publications?
Researchers at Aalto and Helsinki Universities favor open access journals with author fees published by large publishers. Popular journals without author fees are often published by universities or societies.
Open access agreements under renewal
Elsevier and Cambridge University Press agreements will continue 2026. Negotiations with IEEE, Oxford UP, RSC, Springer and ASME have started.
Learning, growing, and exploring: a path through doctoral studies at Aalto
Hamidreza Daghigh Shirazi reflects on his doctoral journey at Aalto University
Practice your languages with the Unite! Language Tandems
Learn languages with another student from one of the nine Unite! alliance universities.
ACM transitioning to fully open access in 2026
ACM publications will be 100 % open access 1.1.2026 onwards
Fixa spr氓ket!
Plattformen Fixa spr氓ket kommer att vara en 枚ppen resurs f枚r akademisk och professionell kommunikation p氓 svenska i Finland.
Applications for Aalto International Talent Program open 20th-26th October
Aalto International Talent Programme offers students the opportunity to network and learn about Finnish working life. Nearly 900 international master's and doctoral students have already participated in the group mentoring intitiative since its launch in 2020.
Student: Give your feedback on the usability of Aalto Multifactor Authentication (MFA)
Feedback survey opened
How researchers search for and follow literature? 鈥 Researcher, please answer the survey
A research group from the universities of Helsinki and Tampere and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies is particularly interested in responses from the fields of natural sciences and technology
