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Material manufacturing from particles takes a giant step forward
Tiny fibrils extracted from plants have been getting a lot of attention for their strength.
About Learning Experience Design and how creating learning experiences elevates your teaching and impacts your students
Sara Gottschalk shares insights on learning experiences and why educators should focus on creating them for our students and ourselves.
Aalto Photonics Flagship Seed Funding Call for Collaboration Projects is Open till May 28, 2020
The call seeks proposals that introduce new scientific, technological, business and/or artistic ideas that explore photonic technologies for strong collaboration with other partners of the Academy of Finland Photonics Flagship PREIN (i.e., Tampere University, University of Eastern Finland and VTT). Researchers from all schools of Aalto are invited to propose new openings.
The demoscene accepted to the national inventory of living heritage
This decision made by the Ministry of Education and Culture is an important step towards a larger goal: to get the demoscene recognized by Unesco as intangible cultural heritage.
Climate change and coronavirus require us to apply the brakes – but we must also dare to press ahead
‘Leaving the economy stranded on the shore for a long time is unprecedentedly expensive,’ says Professor of Economics Matti Liski.
Emil Aaltonen Foundation Grant Awarded to Jari Järvi
Jari Järvi from the CEST group has received an Emil Aaltonen extension grant for his Ph.D. studies.
Aalto University’s technology students celebrated Wappu remotely
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Wappu was not cancelled. This is how remote Wappu was celebrated in Otaniemi!
New project to create a new info centre for the design field
New project aims to strengthen the visibility of the field of design in Finland and beyond. The project will bring different institutions and actors closer to each other.
Startup hub A Grid grew to a community of 150 startups and partners
From 3D printers and AI platforms to safer bone surgery and battling food waste, A Grid has created a unique startup community on Aalto University’s campus in Otaniemi.
Leap for Learning – change project enabling future-led learning and streamlining everyday work
Leap for learning means common and harmonised way of working and learning for all. Digitalised services enable the offering of personalised, easy-to-access support for students.
Ekosetti: A Guidebook to Sustainable Audiovisual Production in Finland now available in English
The goal of the guidebook is to promote a more environmentally friendly way of production.
Aalto University Open Science and Research Policy is being prepared - Comments welcome by 31 May
The policy defines the principles of openness and offers guidance to responsible research practices.
Multifactor authentication will be required – register already now
In the future, you will need a phone as an additional authentication method if you use Office 365 services outside Aalto's network or from home computer. The policy will be turned on 7 May for staff of School of Arts, Design and Architecture, School of Chemical Engineering and School of Engineering. The policy will be turned on 14 May for staff of School of Electrical Engineering and School of Science
Meet the new director of OtaNano
Anna Rissanen, the new director of OtaNano, tells us about her role in developing OtaNano for the future
Books owned by departments no longer added to the library catalogue
Only resources that are available to all users are migrated to the new library system.
Cumulus GREEN 2020 competition sought for solutions on sustainability and circular economy
Amongst the honourable mentions is the Oryza Collective by Talisa Dwiyani and Alexia Venot.
Fourth report by the Helsinki GSE Situation Room: The growth in the number of applications for unemployment benefit paid by Kela has been greatest in the Uusimaa region
The report is presented at an open access webinar in Zoom on Thursday, 7 May at 8 am.
Free and Open-Source Hardware enables more bang for your buck in research funding
A study was recently made on how producing equipment for research and laboratories with Free and Open Source Hardware could save a huge amount of money in research funding. This saved money could be used elsewhere in research projects.
Contract research pricing will be unified starting from 1.5.2020
Contract research pricing principles have been renewed. The main goal of the renewal is to simplify project planning and move the focus of negotiations from pricing to research content.
