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An atomic-scale window into superconductivity paves the way for new quantum materials

Researchers have demonstrated a new technique to measure the quantum excitations in superconducting materials with atomic precision for the first time. Detecting these excitations is an important step towards understand exotic superconductors, which could help us improve quantum computers and perhaps even pave the way towards room-temperature superconductors.
Press releases
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Artist illustration of Andreev reflection.

Aalto Digital Creatives Art & Tech Open Call ‘22 received a record number of applications

Art & Tech Open Call ‘22 winners will be selected at the Media Lab Demo Day event on 1.6.2022.
Campus, Cooperation
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Photo from Art & Tech Open Call Demo Day event.

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.

Open Access Publishing Is the Predominant Publishing Method at Aalto University – From 13% to 82% in Eight Years

We have come a long way since Aalto University published its first open access recommendation in 2014.
Research & Art, University
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An arrow on a yellow background

Mikko Möttönen and his team aim to rein in qubit errors

Professor Mikko Möttönen of Aalto University and VTT has received a €2.5 million ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council for the ConceptQ project. This is the fifth time Möttönen has received one of the extremely competitive ERC grants.
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Mikko Möttönen and his Quantum Computing and Devices (QCD) group carry out research in Micronova. Photo Mikko Raskinen.

Aalto University boosts bold and new transdisciplinary research projects 

13 interdisciplinary teams got internal seed funding for research that boldly pushes existing boundaries and contributes to creating a radically new kind of future
Research & Art, University
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Visualizing Knowledge

Finland's first science satellite, Foresail-1, is ready for space

The satellite and its key instruments will launch in summer 2022.
Press releases, Research & Art
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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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Aalto Digital Creatives has launched Art & Tech Open Call for a development grant for creative industry projects

Find out more about the open call at the Art & Tech Open Call Demo Day event on Friday 8.4.2022 at Roihupelto Studios.
Campus, Cooperation
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A person with VR glasses

Unite! presents its strategic roadmap towards open science in the digital age

The roadmap includes objectives, recommendations and actions that Aalto and the other universities of the alliance can promote to make Unite! a European driver of open science and innovation by 2023.
Cooperation, Research & Art
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Environmental Engineering new flow channel in Otaniemi, with students and teaching staff

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

Aalto Digital Creatives pre-incubator program announces an open call for creative industry projects

Deadline for applications is on 23 March 2022.
Campus, Cooperation
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Digital Creatives

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

Aalto University joins the City of Helsinki's new campus incubator programme

Helsinki wants to create a strong network of business incubators in the city in cooperation with higher education institutions.
Campus, Cooperation
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Aalto Startup Center

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

School of Business alumna Oona Anttila: Internship was an important experience for my career

Our alumna Oona Anttila became interested in the themes of sustainable development already at the beginning of her studies, and later she applied for the multidisciplinary Creative Sustainability master’s programme. Currently, she works at the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) in Nairobi, Kenya.
Cooperation, Studies
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Kauppakorkeakoulun alumni Oona Anttila

School of Business participates in the 2022 Positive Impact Rating (PIR)

Positive Impact Rating (PIR) is an international business school rating, in which students evaluate the societal impact of their school.
University
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Students outside and Positive Impact Rating logo