News
Changes in autumn orientation and teaching periods
The orientation of new students will start already this summer with pre-orientation assignments. The teaching periods are also changing.
Aalto Travel Services busy
The service channels of travel services are congested. Processing times for service requests and expense reports are currently longer than normal.
Degree regulations changed, admissions criteria discussed by AAC in April meeting
The AAC decided to update the structure of the Bachelor of Science (Economics and Business Administration) degree, effective 1 August 2022.
Alumna Annastina Saari: I want to be involved in solving the climate crisis
‘I had always dreamed of a career dealing with environmental questions’, says our alumna Annastina Saari, who studied international business as well as information and service management, and who now works as a consultant for D-mat, a company that is specialized in sustainable lifestyles.
Meet Airi and Joona, Aalto’s student representatives in the Unite! university alliance
We talked to Airi and Joona about their new roles as Unite!’s student representatives and got some great ideas and advice from them.
Degree programme report tool as a new cloud version (PowerBI app) has been published April 1st 2022
Degree programmes can use the report tool to support the monitoring of and developing their activity.
HowUTeach self-assessment tool for teachers is piloted at Aalto
HowUTeach is a research based self-assessment tool created primarily for teachers. The purpose of HowUTeach is to increase teachers’ awareness of their teaching and thereby enhance individual self-reflection relating to work and wellbeing. HowUTeach is being piloted at Aalto during the academic year 2022-23.
Collaboration between general upper secondary schools and universities is important
The collaboration between Metsähovi Radio Observatory and Helsinki School of Mathematics was awarded at the final event of the Tutki-Kokeile-Kehitä competition.
Data mycelium and a sculptural illusion - winning proposals of Aalto University's public art competition celebrate engineering
The artworks will be located in the K2 and K3 buildings in the Aalto University Works block
Armi Tiihonen receives a postdoctoral grant from Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions program
The CEST researcher will study physics-informed machine learning to accelerate stability research on perovskite solar cells.
Biorefineries and Herbert Sixta in spotlight at 2022 seminar
Biorefineries research group annual seminar presented the latest developments in forest-based, sustainable refineries and analytical tools.
Aalto University boosts bold and new transdisciplinary research projectsÂ
13 interdisciplinary teams got internal seed funding for research that boldly pushes existing boundaries and contributes to creating a radically new kind of future
Artificial intelligence to assist the brain
Neuroscience and neurotechnology are gaining a fresh ally in the form of artificial intelligence, which can assess dementia risk and enhance the effectiveness of depression treatments.
Film Silence breaks a taboo
A short film directed by Saara Hakkarainen tells a story of a silenced secret.
New data-tools in MyCourses for student and teacher for viewing and anticipating course activity
For students and teachers, a new data tool will be an internal part of MyCourses-environment from the beginning of 5th period, 19.4.2022. Student’s tool Learner metrics and teacher’s tool Teacher metrics show reports and visualizations of course activity.
Students are your most important resource, says TEK — Organisation has made 1.2 million euro donation to tech-sector universities
Aalto's share of Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK's donation is 370 000 euros. At Aalto, students' coping is supported by developing teaching and support services, monitoring student wellbeing and strengthening the wellbeing of the entire community.
Quality together - University's review produced material for audit self-assessment report
Aalto University's quality culture express a unique and collective commitment to maintaining and developing the quality of operations. This was strongly observed when preparing the University Review at schools and services
Inclusive European student mobility being developed in Unite's new project IDEM
The aim is to facilitate, for example, the full participation of students with disabilities and refugee backgrounds in exchange and mobility programs.
Researchers merged quantum optics with a treasure hunt
One of the aims of InstituteQ, the national quantum institute, and the QPlayLearn platform developed by the institute’s researchers is to add our understanding of the significance of quantum research and technologies in the society. Now QPlayLearn has created The Photonic Trail game in collaboration with Quantum Flytrap.
