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Apply to EIT Urban Mobility Specialist Innovation Call (1st Cut-Off DL 23 Sept 2025)
EIT Urban Mobility’s Strategic Innovation Open Call 2026-2028 just launched! The total estimated funding allocated to this Call is 60 million EUR for 3 years. The Call has multiple cut-off dates The indicative funding for the first submission cut-off is: 9 million EUR. Each project may receive up to 2 million EUR of EIT funding. EIT Urban Mobility will reimburse up to 65% of the eligible project costs, while the minimum co-funding rate for all proposals is 35%.

Aalto University again ranked Finland’s top university in the QS World University Rankings
Aalto placed 114th globally

Dean Jouko Lampinen: Thank you for a successful year!
In addition to some appointment news, there are a bunch of new projects starting up in the School of Science. Dean Jouko Lampinen wishes everyone a relaxing summer.

New Academy Research Fellows and Academy Projects
A total of 44 Aalto researchers received Academy Research Fellowship and Academy Project funding from the Research Council of Finland – congratulations to all!

Spring term open science highlight: Aalto Open Science Award Ceremony
We gathered at A Grid to celebrate the awardees of the Aalto Open Science Award 2024 and discuss open science topics with the Aalto community.

A revolution for R&D with the missing link of machine learning — project envisions human-AI expert teams to solve grand challenges
Samuel Kaski receives ERC Advanced Grant to develop new machine learning that is robust, generalisable and engages human experts.

President's Letter, 17 June 2025: Remember to thank yourself and your colleagues
'All our successes are the result of the dedicated work of Aaltonians,' Ilkka Niemelä says.

Pollinators – tiny helpers in the work for biodiversity
Bee-assisted biomonitoring has started on the Otaniemi campus.

Board approved the financial plan 2026–2029
The Aalto University Foundation Board’s meeting was held on campus 10-11 June, 2025

CCA Research Funding available for cross-school and cross-disciplinary research collaborations
The internal research funding of cross-cutting approaches aims to support innovative, cross-disciplinary research initiatives at Aalto University. We are looking for blue-sky thinking and significant impact on the future society. Deadline for proposals is 14 October 2025.

Aalto students' art and science work Mama depicts the often invisible roles of mothers and women
The FIBRATIONS exhibition opens on 10 June at Heureka, a Finnish Science Center in Vantaa. It showcases student work at Aalto University that combines math and arts. One of the six student groups created a giant art and science piece Mama, which resembles a womb and represents motherhood, femininity and balance.

Tidbits for material bank use: free crop, gallery view
You can free crop a selected image in the material bank before you download it. There is a gallery view option, too, when scrolling images per folder.

James Webb telescope gives unprecedented open access to images of the deep universe
Researchers from Aalto University played a key role in cataloguing the largest ever sample of deep galaxies in the early universe

Artificial intelligence accelerates materials research – thesis brought new perspectives to Betolar's development work
Aalto University student Edvard Ohlström examined Betolar's new AI-based approach to analysing industrial side streams in his Master's thesis.

Maarit Korpi-Lagg received funding to develop a smarter way to model the Sun’s magnetic field
Jane ja Aatos Erkko Foundation granted Professor Korpi-Lagg and the team EUR 295 000 in funding

Coaching available for supporting your wellbeing at work - bookable times untill 19.6.!
Solution-focuse coaching available for supporting your wellbeing at work

LetterSampo Finland web service published data on 1.3 million letters and 120,000 correspondents from the period of the Grand Duchy of Finland 1809–1917
LetterSampo Finland is a new Linked Open Data service and semantic portal.
New Fundamentals: ELLIS Institute Finland launches with bold scientific ambitions
AI and ML for transforming R&D, enhancing human-AI teamwork, and creating exciting new science

Updated course on Code of Conduct now available – Learn how to make ethically sound choices
This practical course is one of three mandatory courses for all staff
