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The power of appreciative interactions: webinars in Autumn 2025
Webinar series consists of three webinars during autumn 2025. The webinars covers themes such as appreciative interactions, Negotiations &Conflicts and Challenges & opportunities for interaction in hybrid work .
What do equality, diversity and inclusion mean in your work?
Each employee is encouraged to reflect on this as part of their My Dialogues discussion
Oasis is ending. How will you take action?
As the Oasis of radical wellbeing project is coming to an end, what message will it leave you with?
Upcoming EDI trainings and events
Check out the upcoming equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) trainings and webinars for this autumn and spring 2025!
Why should everyone study creativity right now?
Chief Human Resources Officer Riitta Silvennoinen is encouraging employees to be radical by taking time for learning. All staff at Aalto have the opportunity to take a basic course in radical creativity during their working hours.
Vote for the best idea! How do we spend 14 000 euros on student wellbeing?
In autumn 2024, students were asked to come up with ideas on how the university should spend 14 000 euros to improve student wellbeing on campus. Now it's time to vote for the best idea to be implemented during spring 2025.
Strengthening Mental Health - Strategies and Tools for Wellbeing: webinars in Autumn 2024 and Spring 2025
Webinar series consists of two webinars during autumn 2024 and two webinars during spring 2025. The webinars cover mental health, recovery, work community, and psychological safety.
How to live a good life? Art of Living MOOC by Frank Martela
This massive open online course on how to live a good life is lectured by Ph.D., assistant professor Frank Martela. The course is produced by the Oasis of Radical Wellbeing project and it is part of Aalto鈥檚 lifewide learning portfolio. The course was launched on May 30th, 2023
Webinars and training on LGBTIQA+ students鈥 inclusion (in Finnish)
At Nyyti ry, an organisation promoting students鈥 mental health, this autumn we are introducing our QueerMieli project鈥檚 free-of-charge trainings and webinars about the promotion of LGBTIQA+ students鈥 mental health and inclusion within higher education communities!
Appreciative encounter - join interactive group coaching
A totally new kind of training open for all Aaltonians starts 7 October 鈥 as a participant you will get concrete tools for appreciative interaction both in your work and studies
Aalto Distinguished Professor Tapani Vuorinen: 鈥淥nly through collaboration can we achieve greater impact鈥
Tapani Vuorinen, professor of forest products chemistry at the School of Chemical Engineering, was appointed Aalto Distinguished Professor at the opening of the academic year on 3 September.
鈥淓nhancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the workplace鈥 - free online course available, you can register until mid-February
European EDIFY-EDU- project offers an open online course (MOOC).
Polish up your language skills this autumn
Several language initiatives offer Aaltonians a chance to learn and improve their language skills free-of-charge on campus starting September
Sushant Passi: In the future, we will see human-to-human interaction as a luxury
'In 2050, we will be likely be promoting human to human interaction. It is now perhaps getting a bit sidelined, but it is irreplaceable.'
Join the Unite! 21-Day Diversity & Inclusion Challenge
A self-directed, online and free learning tool designed to deepen your understanding of diversity and inclusion.
Four projects received EDI funding from the School of Business in the Spring 2024 call
The School of Business funds projects that strengthen and promote diversity, inclusivity and equality (EDI)
Risto Ilmoniemi: The most important thing is having confidence that others will be there to support and help when needed
'I have thought many times that I am going to give up the whole thing: this is not going to work. But I recover quickly: often already on the next day, optimism is reborn.'
Panu Savolainen: I wish we would have a day when we remove the power dynamics completely
鈥業n many indigenous cultures, there are such periods, when leaders relinquish their power. Either that power is given to someone, maybe the poorest or most oppressed community member, or then the power isn鈥檛 used by anyone.鈥
Maarit Korpi-Lagg: I have so few female colleagues that sometimes it鈥檚 difficult to maintain self-esteem
'Both in physics and computer science there are very few female researchers and professors. Last year we had a celebration because the first female student passed my course. It was a big thing for me.'
陌dil Gaziulusoy: We can start by touching each other a bit more
"We need to move towards one another and start walking together. Internationalisation is integration."
