Collaboration news
Alum Niklas Huotari: Five tips to start your career
Alum Niklas Huotari wants to help people succeed in their careers, both through his job and as an active member of the Aalto community.
Apply now: Unite! Visiting Professorship Program at TU Darmstadt
TuDa is looking for experienced postdocs as visiting professors for the winter semester 2025/2026.
Apply for Unite! seed funding to foster collaborative teaching and research
Financial boost for collaborative ideas from teachers and researchers across the Unite! alliance of nine European universities. Apply now!
Call for early-career academics interested in expanding their international network
We are looking for early-career academics to host international colleagues from eight European universities at the Unite! Dialogue event in October 2025.
New life for construction waste wood
In Finland, almost all waste wood from construction ends up being burned, even though it could play a major role in the development of ecological growing media. New research shows that steam-treated waste wood can replace peat as a growing medium and offers promising results in plant germination and root growth.
New origami packaging technology creates sustainable and eye-catching alternatives to conventional packing materials
Origami packaging enables completely new properties for cartonboard, making it an excellent alternative to, for example, plastic and expanded polystyrene in packaging. The aesthetics of the material have also garnered interest from designers.
Unite! Seed Fund 2024 awards funding to three collaborative teaching projects involving Aalto
The Unite! Seed Fund aims to stimulate and support bottom-up proposals by teachers, researchers and students for collaborative activities.
Improve your language skills with the Unite! Language Tandems
Connect with colleagues across Unite! universities, practicing and improving your chosen language in dynamic, one-on-one sessions.
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.
Strong overall result: 27.5 million euros from the Research Council of Finland
A total of 52 Aalto researchers received Academy Research Fellowship and Academy Project funding. The total funding awarded 色色啦 University amounts to 27.5 million euros
Call for proposals: Unite! Seed Fund to foster collaborative teaching
This call is for setting up joint/collaborative teaching formats in Unite! focus areas. Apply by end of August 2024.
Unite! Seed Fund 2024 awards funding to 13 applications with Aalto's involvement
The Unite! Seed Fund aims to stimulate and support bottom-up proposals by teachers, researchers and students for collaborative activities.
American and Finnish universities collaborate to drive SDG advancement and innovation
American and Finnish universities collaborate on SDG innovation during a week-long training event, fostering global sustainability solutions.
Doctoral research seeks textile dyes from nature and bioproduction side streams
Aalto University and the Natural Resources Institute Finland are developing bio-based textile dyes.
Collaboration with Aalto brings significant financial benefits to Neste
As a result of the collaboration, Neste is now using digital tools in its fuel research alongside traditional testing.
A peek into research on electrospinning of Functional Polysaccharide Derivatives
We had the honour of hosting a guest speaker, researcher Issei Otsuka, from the University of Grenoble Alpes at our 鈥楥offee and Science鈥 event. Dr. Otsuka is visiting Finland on Researcher Short Mobility program which is aimed for the establishment of scientific partnerships between France and Finland.
Teamwork First-Aid Kit supports students in project-based courses
This online resource offers tools to support student teams throughout project courses.
Open Science and Research Summer Conference 2024 will be hosted by Aalto University
Open Science and Research Summer Conference 2024 will be held at Aalto University鈥檚 Otaniemi campus and in Zoom 3.鈥4.6.2024. Please register by May 3.
UPM supports Aalto University's pulp research and education
High quality research enables high quality education
Unite! visiting professorship program offers 13 guest professor positions at TU Darmstadt
TuDa is looking for experienced postdocs as visiting professors.