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Celebrating International Women's Day in the School of Science
Some of the ways we celebrated the impact of the women in Sci's community
Researchers developed a new solution that brings high quality extended reality to easy-to-use and inexpensive devices
The solution developed at Aalto makes use of distributed computing and offloads the heaviest part of graphics rendering to remote servers
Two books by Aalto ARTS Books were awarded in an international competition
Aalto ARTS Books has received prizes in the International Creative Media Award (ICMA) competition. Both awards came in a series where science and textbooks were awarded: Juuso Koponen's and Jonatan Hild茅n's work Data Visualization Handbook won gold and Pasi R盲bina's Print of Beauty received the 鈥淎ward of Excellence鈥, which is awarded for outstanding performance.
Addressing climate change will require radical changes in lifestyles: new report by international consortium of research institutes
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), Aalto University, D-mat, the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, and the KR Foundation, at the World Resources Forum (WRF), today announced the launch of a report which analyses the carbon footprints of household lifestyles and how changes can contribute to meeting the ambitious 1.5-degree aspirational target envisaged by the Paris Agreement on climate change.
Towards an eco-welfare state 鈥 how to direct the transition?
We interviewed Mikko Jalas, Creative Sustainability Programme Director and Professor of Practice, about Towards Eco-Welfare State: Orchestrating for Systemic (ORSI)
Oskari Vilamo Fund awarded the best theses on the building trade
Three doctoral dissertations and four master's thesis were awarded in Aalto University.
Finnish researchers look at noisy quantum computer
Researchers from CSC 鈥 IT center for science, Aalto University and 脜bo Akademi and their collaborators from Boston University in the USA have for the first time demonstrated how the noise impacts on quantum computing in a systematic way. The results are published in the prestigious journal Physical Review Letters.
Explore the treasures of the digital archives
Aalto has become the first Finnish university to digitise the majority of its theses from the 1960s onwards.
All of us are exposed to information manipulation - Welcome to follow open lectures and learn what that means
Informational influence and information manipulation touch every one of us. For that reason, the Information Networks Programme welcomes everyone to come and learn about this phenomenon.
Financial Times listed top Business School Research with Social Impact
Two recent publications from the School of Business that focused on social impact were included in the FT top 100 list. The list used social media attention as one of its indicators.
Aalto University's art and design again ranked as 7th best in the world
Aalto also ranked among the QS Rankings top 100 in the fields of architecture and built environment, and business and management studies.
From birch to poppies 鈥 how the fabric was created for Marimekko鈥檚 unique shirt dress
The yarn spun from Ioncell庐 fibre is stronger than its commercial equivalent and performed excellently in the printing process and washing tests. The chemicals used to make the fibre were completely recycled too.
Aalto University鈥檚 fashion and textile know-how acknowledged in Finland and internationally
Aalto takes home two prizes at the Fashion Finland Gala and ranks third at CEO World Magazine fashion school listing
Mailbox for corona-related questions opened
You can send emails concerning Aalto University and the coronavirus to corona.information@aalto.fi.
Aalto University T枚枚l枚鈥檚 art competition seeks radical creativity
Aalto University published an invited art competition that seeks to find public art to be situated in two spaces in Aalto T枚枚l枚
Students helped Finavia expand its knowledge on marketing in Russia
Two students collected, analysed and summarised the special features of marketing practices in Russia.
The Global5G.org closing project details a transformative 5G future
Global5G.org project has been analysing some of the trends and mechanisms for guaranteeing the transformative impacts of 5G in Europe in the coming few years
Call a Researcher! discussions brought new perspectives
The Digital Disruption of Industry consortium offered again its researchers鈥 expertise to citizens, politicians, companies and organisations through one hour free Skype discussions. The Call a Researcher! week held in February 2020 was implemented for the third time.
Registration for Open University鈥檚 summer studies begins 15 April
Check out our summer study programme and sign up for courses!
Not a drop wasted 鈥 AaltoCell鈩 fibres utilised in a new circular economy project
With funding totalling 鈧240 000, the project aims to make more efficient use of food industry side streams.
