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Tapojärvi Innovation Challenge 2023 for Students (apply by 14 APR 2023)

This competition is ideal for any students concerned about making a positive difference for the environment
Cooperation
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Aalto EIT Services - Javor

EIT Start-up stories: The expansion of Finnish start-up to France

A Finnish start-up specialising in nautical mobility, Bout settles in Paris to take in the French market
Press releases
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Aalto EIT Services - Javor

Anglo American Innovation Challenge (apply by 22 May 2023)

A great opportunity for start-ups and entrepreneurs with solutions to decarbonise steel
Cooperation
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Aalto EIT Services - Javor

EIT Jumpstarter 2023 (register before 16 April 2023)

Do you have an innovative idea and want to jumpstart your business?
Cooperation
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Aalto EIT Services - Javor

The Adventures in Entrepreneurship Law course, produced as talk show videos and podcasts, is now available to everyone

A practical course for learning the key themes of business law
Cooperation, Studies
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Kalle Airo ja Petra Hietanen-Kunwald

Solve the SDGs returns — now on two continents

Join the sustainability hackathon by AVP and Junction, organized simultaneously in Finland, Uganda and Tanzania on 31.3.–2.4.
Campus, Cooperation, Studies
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Vibrant purple and red colored banner with a decorative logo for 'Solve the SDGs'.  The tagline reads 'Work together for a better tomorrrow'.

Welcome to Space 21 monthly morning coffees in Spring 2023

Space 21 open door events, monthly morning coffees, welcome all Aalto community to come and have a cup of coffee in a good company in the living room of radical creativity
Campus, University
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White coffee cup with Space 21 logo, space's common room on the background.

Aalto strengthens its entrepreneurial ecosystem in creative sectors with the lead of Mikael Huhtamäki

Project manager Mikael Huhtamäki is looking for ideas on how to develop multidisciplinary collaboration within Aalto University’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Appointments, University
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Mikael Huhtamäki.

Marcus Wallenberg Prize to Professor Herbert Sixta for the development of Sustainable wood-based textile fibres

The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professor Herbert Sixta and Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres.
Cooperation, Awards and Recognition, Research & Art
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Prize winners

Deep technology solves global challenges - Aalto University is a great growth platform for deep tech companies

Deep tech companies that got their start at Aalto University include IQM, ICEYE, Ioncell and Mustekala.
Cooperation, Research & Art
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Centimeter-sized silicon chip, which has two parallel superconducting oscillators and the quantum-circuit refrigerators connected to them. Credit: Kuan Yen Tan.

Research innovations become growth companies at Aalto Startup Center

'Aalto University's Startup Center plays an important role in generating startups from research', says Janne Laine, Vice President of Innovation.
Cooperation
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Slush 2021. / Kuva Mikko Raskinen

Bioinnovation Center kicked off

Aalto University Bioinnovation Center has kicked off its operations and celebrated its opening in a launching event on June 1, 2022.
Cooperation
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Susanna Ahola, Niklas von Weymarn and Michael Hummel

Aalto Startup Center celebrates its 25th anniversary as a pioneer in Finnish startup culture

Aalto Startup Center has played an important role in the construction of the Finnish startup ecosystem.
Cooperation
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Slush

Aalto University becomes a founding partner in Ioncell Oy

The new company will commercialise and develop ecological textile fibre technologies.
Cooperation
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A scarf made of Ioncell.

Introducing the university's art collection and the A Grid community - take a tour!

I love campus tours for Aalto community began in May 2022
For Aalto community
Campus, University
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A close-up of a ceramic piece with droplets in white, with a I love campus logo in the upper right corner.

Would you say ‘Yes’ for commercializing your research idea? Aalto's Innovation services are helping researchers applying R2B funding

Business Finland’s Research to Business funding is intended for projects in which research teams aim to develop their research into new business and to commercialize their research ideas. Funding application period will start soon, and new enthusiastic research teams are wanted.
For Aalto community
Cooperation, Research & Art
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Computer_Science_photo_Matti_Ahlgren_Aalto_University-24

Aalto Startup Center’s alumni companies increased their turnover in 2020 despite COVID-19

The turnover of Aalto University's alumni companies has developed in the opposite direction from that of Finnish companies on average.
Cooperation
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SLUSH 2019

Alumnus Atte Hujanen: I have been an entrepreneur all my life

‘To succeed and enjoy being an entrepreneur, you need to enjoy unpredictable situations, reacting to them, and overcoming them. If the image of such an everyday life gets a smile on your face day after day, then entrepreneurship may be for you,’ thinks Atte Hujanen, the founder of the karaoke streaming service Singa.
Cooperation, Studies
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Atte Hujanen.

Colliding students and startups in A Grid’s Omnia Makerspace

Omnia Makerspace was launched in startup hub A Grid’s first floor opposite Restaurant Factory in April 2019. Since then, the space has evolved from an empty basement into a flourishing workspace where students and startups collide.
Campus, Cooperation
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Omnia Makerspace ja studio

Radical Creativity fostering re-thinking

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn. But as the world is changing at a pace like never before, the most crucial skill may be the ability to think again and unlearn.
University
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Aalto innovations present at Flow Festival, photo by Samuli Pentti