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Doctoral student Anastasiia Kravtcova: 鈥淒octoral studies can be a combination of a job, hobby and lifestyle鈥
The chance of making a societal impact motivated Anastasiia Kravtcova to pursue her doctoral studies and to dive into a groundbreaking topic in medical engineering at the School of Electrical Engineering.
Mechatronics students claim top three prizes in development project competition
The end results of this spring's Mechatronics Project course had an opportunity to shine in the development project competition hosted by industrial production and maintenance association Promaint ry and the Finnish Fair Foundation.
China鈥檚 new five-year plan to focus on technological development and carbon neutrality 鈥 as well as serving the country鈥檚 rapidly growing middle class
The plan has global significance because China usually achieves the goals it sets out
Students carried out mobile device user survey for Posti鈥檚 parcel drivers
The project also included investigation on how the digitalization of the working environment affects the employee experience of the drivers.
Iwatemo, launched by Ville Kokkonen and Harri Koskinen, wins the Good Design Award
Good Design Award is the most significant design award in Asia.
Strategic Research Council (SRC) asks for proposals for the next research themes 鈥 have your say!
The online survey is open until 12.11.2020.
My tip for you: Remember to take breaks and calm down
Anna supports the Aalto community through different life situations and works as an expert for well-being and crisis work at Aalto University.
Satellite laboratory hosted a remote lecture with a 360 camera
Upper secondary school students watched the lecture from an 8K screen. The experiment was carried out in collaboration with telecommunications company Elisa.
How a foreign market entry fails: the case of Guggenheim Helsinki
Both local and overseas resistance proved too difficult to overcome, highlighting need to study culture, decision-making and political power relations before moving into new market
Sari Baldauf and Karel Luyben to continue as Board members
The term is three years and will begin 1 January 2021.
Start preparing for Horizon Europe now!
The new research and innovation framework programme Horizon Europe is due to start next year. The goal at the moment is that the first calls would open in April, 2021.
University collaboration brings a scope of new possibilities for Planmeca鈥檚 business
FCAI, Planmeca and Tampere University Hospital have developed an artificial intelligence method that helps, for example, with the placement of teeth implants.
Registration open to Towards Oasis: Dialogues in Radical Wellbeing - Creating Belongingness in Higher Education Communities
Already almost 200 attendees from Finnish higher education institutes have registered to the online symposium that takes place on 19 November 2020.
AVP explores new ways for true multidisciplinarity in education
By combining two existing courses, Aalto Ventures Program created a multidisciplinary experience in cosmetic product design.
Artificial intelligence helps to identify correct atomic structures
Detecting adsorbate configurations with Bayesian inference.
Leap for learning project update: from idea to projects, from planning to deployment
Information about coming changes and their schedules (e.g. related to Sisu) will be published on Leap for learning pages in aalto.fi from November onwards. The projects in Aalto Service Platform are moving towards demos, testing and piloting.
Drive faster, or get fired
New book by Professor Henri Schildt explains how AI is changing management mindsets and the future of work
Aalto is transferring to centralised waste sorting stations
When the coronavirus pandemic started this spring, we were all faced with something new. CMT (Aalto University鈥檚 Crisis Management Team) decided at the time, that personal waste bins would be removed to ensure that the persons providing cleaning services could better focus their resources on disinfecting the most important contact surfaces.
Flow of Studies II to improve course sizes, teaching schedules and periods
The work of the Flow of Studies Task Force II has been a general success. The task force plans to publish a final report of its results on for the purposes of further action and decision-making.
Alumnus Ville Vahteri: The opportunity cost of becoming an entrepreneur as a student is often at its lowest level
Our alumnus Ville Vahteri, who studied marketing at the School of Business, was actively involved in organizing the startup event Slush throughout his studies. Emboldened by the experience, he co-founded Bou, a brand company, together with his Slush colleagues.
