News from innovation ecosystem
EIT Digital Strategic Innovation Agenda 2020-2022
EIT Digital has decided on a new strategic innovation agenda for years 2020-2022.
Brain scans shine light on how we solve clues
Partnered with machine learning, brain scans reveal how people understand objects in our world.
Almost half of Aalto students replied to AllWell? study well-being questionnaire
Almost half of the students in the target group has replied É«É«À² AllWell? study well-being questionnaire.
EIT Manufacturing - Pre-Call 2020 is Open!
Find all the info and documents for EIT Manufacturing 2020 Call for proposals
Brain recordings show that background noise strongly impairs children’s ability to concentrate on a single speaker
A new brain-imaging study compared the cocktail party effect between adults and children. The purpose was to understand how children can cope the often noisy surroundings in which they grow and learn.
Engineered metasurfaces reflect waves in unusual directions
Developed at Aalto University, new metasurfaces can reflect light or sound waves into any desired direction or even split energy into more than one direction.
Ceremonial Conferment of Degrees in Arts, Design and Architecture
The next ceremonial conferment of Doctoral and Master's Degrees in Arts, Design and Architecture will be held during the ceremony week on 13th June 2025. Doctors and Masters are welcomed into the scientific community at the most prestigious of academic events every six years.
Artists digging up contaminated soil
Artistic research does not provide ready-made answers, but instead raises important questions. Artist researchers are currently interested in global topics such as climate change and migration.
School of Arts, Design and Architecture awarded promoters of creative skills
In the Annual Review of the school altogether eleven prizes were awarded.
The climate is changing - will education at Aalto change as well?
A discussion session was organised At Aalto to reflect on how university education could better respond to the challenges of climate change.
The space journey of Aalto-2 satellite is coming to an end - its trip finishes tomorrow night when it becomes a shooting star in the sky
According to estimates, Aalto-2 will hit the atmosphere on Thursday 7 February at 00.51 Finnish time.
EIT Manufacturing Info session - The first call
We invite all interested parties within Aalto (primarily professors, researchers and teachers) to hear about and discuss the innovation and education activity opportunities offered by the EIT Manufacturing Community É«É«À² community.
Breakthrough in photonics: data-transmitting light signal gets power boost from nanosized amplifier
An international team of researchers from Aalto University and Université Paris-Sud has significantly improved the propagation of data inside a microchip
Self-leadership skills – Many training opportunities
Self-leadership skills improve your self-confidence, stress and time management, ability to control emotions, change management skills and courage for decision-making. We offer you possibilities to improve your self-leadership skills in many different ways at Aalto.
Artificial intelligence ARTIST instantly captures materials’ properties
New approach holds potential to slash research and development costs for designer materials and technologies of the future
New materials required by circular economy will be researched in a new joint laboratory in Otaniemi
Finland could be a global leader in the research and innovations of inorganic raw materials and new materials in circular economy.
Aalto University’s digitization project: cross-functional collaboration at its best
With about 70,000 MA and PhD theses now in digital format, the working group wants to try three-dimensional objects next.
Space weather can be trying for Arctic regions – new technique aids space weather forecasting
Technique analyses changes to magnetic fields. Space weather impacts Arctic regions through its effects on electricity networks, mining operations and shipping.
How to use artificial intelligence to augment multidisciplinary education
Using semantic matching to find teachers and students for the FITech Summer Boost course.
Aalto University to establish network of companies interested in digital twin development
Digital twins are virtual copies of their physical pairs and can transform product development and maintenance.
