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Career Design Lab develops new services and learning solutions to facilitate meaningful careers

Aalto University’s strategic development project supports students and alumni in future-led career design and creates new forms of employer collaboration.
For Aalto community
Cooperation, Studies
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CDL

2022 brings new opportunities for the future of Unite!

In 2022 Unite! alliance is preparing for the new Erasmus+ call for European Universities Initiative and will be strengthened by two new partners.
Cooperation
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Workshop at the Unite University Network meeting at Aalto

Collaboration with Aalto University VCD students brings fresh ideas to NWB Finland

Aalto VCD students will develop and design visual packaging and branding concepts for NWB Finland to be implemented in new packaging formats for stillwater.
Studies
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NWB Finland packaging

Graz University of Technology and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology join the Unite! alliance

With the expansion from seven to nine members, Unite! University Network for Innovation, Technology and Engineering increases its impact on the European Higher Education Area.
Cooperation
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Graz University of Technology and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology join the Unite! alliance. In the image photos of the university buildings.

Aalto University joins the City of Helsinki's new campus incubator programme

Helsinki wants to create a strong network of business incubators in the city in cooperation with higher education institutions.
Campus, Cooperation
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Aalto Startup Center

Aalto International Talent Program kicks off in January with 181 students and 17 companies

The group mentoring initiative supporting the networking and careers of international students will be organized for the third time.
For Aalto community
Cooperation
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Students on Aalto University Campus

School of Business alumna Oona Anttila: Internship was an important experience for my career

Our alumna Oona Anttila became interested in the themes of sustainable development already at the beginning of her studies, and later she applied for the multidisciplinary Creative Sustainability master’s programme. Currently, she works at the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Nairobi, Kenya.
Cooperation, Studies
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Kauppakorkeakoulun alumni Oona Anttila

Business and economics alumni association donates to the School of Business

The donators want to support the internationalization of the School of Business' students and to help them create international networks.
Cooperation
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Kuvassa näkyvät Kauppatieteiden Kandidaattiyhdistys ry:n puheenjohtaja Vuokko Skyttä ja sihteeri Kristiina Linnoinen. Kuvan otti Helena Salminen.

Aalto ENG: The december newsletter for students at the beginning of the autumn semester is available

A Study Affairs Newsletter has been published and sent to students with ongoing studies at the School of Engineering by e-mail in week 50.
For Aalto community
Press releases, Studies, University
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Dean's Christmas Coffee

Neste donates 750 000 euros University

The donation is targeted to the field of technology within the Finnish state's matching funding campaign for universities. Aalto has decided to use the donation for research and education in chemical engineering.
Cooperation
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Ioncell facilities

SILTA connects entrepreneurial students with the opportunities of Silicon Valley

A new startup hacker house program will be taking entrepreneurs from Finland to the San Francisco Bay Area in the spring of 2022.
Studies
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Photo from the School of Business

Dragons out! Kari Kakkonen employs fantasy to lead children into the world of software testing

A ground-breaking children’s book on software testing brought Aalto University alumnus Kari Kakkonen the EuroSTAR Software Testing Excellence Award.
Cooperation
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Kari Kakkonen

Aalto University Bioinnovation Center opens a call for five doctoral candidate positions  

Bioinnovation Center is looking for talented and exceptionally motivated students that are eager to pursue their doctoral studies in a multidisciplinary environment aiming at biobased material innovation. Students with any background that fits to one of the five projects described below are encouraged to submit their application.  
Research & Art, Studies
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Aalto University's logo

‘The work-life balance in Finland is amazing’

Bhavya Omkarappa shared her story of Finnish work-life balance as part of the Finland Works open online course.
Studies
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Bhavya Omkarappa smiling with plants in the background

Aalto Talent Expo 2021 was organized successfully both live & virtually

”Combining the virtual world and physical fair is absolutely a positive thing, keep at it!"

- Student feedback from the Aalto Talent Expo fair
Cooperation
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Picture of Aalto Talent Expo fair in action

Aalto at Slush 2021: Startups for a more sustainable world

The world’s leading startup event is back and Aalto University is again along for the ride.
Cooperation
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Aalto at Slush 2021

Finnish researchers developed mini-breast cancer as a new weapon against the most common type of breast cancer

Breast cancer researchers from the University of Helsinki and material scientists from Aalto University have jointly developed a gel-grown “mini-breast cancer” that will help uncover more effective treatments against hormone-dependent breast cancer.
Cooperation, Research & Art
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Breast cancer tissue in a culture model in which hormone receptors disappear (left) and within the culture model developed in this study which maintains the hormone receptors (right). The hormone receptors are indicated in green. Photo: Pauliina Munne.

Alumnus Aki Toivonen: The role of marketing and branding will only be emphasized in business in the future

‘I believe that the role of marketing and branding will only be emphasized in business in the future as we move from the current consumer culture to increasingly conscious choices’
Cooperation, Studies
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Aki Toivonen.

AVP offers the chance to join an entrepreneurship bootcamp in California

AVP students can now apply to UC Berkeley's Berkeley Method of Entrepreneurship (BMoE) bootcamp, flight and accommodation costs covered.
Cooperation, Studies
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Graphic of BMOE bootcamp, with text "Flights, group transportation and accommodation fees covered. Apply by November 29th at avp.aalto.fi"

CEMS Consulting Week revealed differences between consulting companies

Visits to consulting companies were very interesting, students say.
Cooperation, Studies
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CEMS Consulting Weekin vierailu McKinseyllä