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Name the rooms and win lunch tickets to Kvarkki!
Innovate names to the meeting rooms of Otakaari 3 and win lunch tickets.
Datasets of Aalto University researchers are collected to ACRIS
Data Monitor tool integrated to ACRIS research information system harvests research data, software, and code of Aalto University’s researchers from more than 2000 repositories. If we missed your published data, software, or code, please let us know! Openness of data will be considered in the Open Science Monitoring in 2024.
Spot the Jokeri Light Rail on the Otaniemi campus!
The technical test runs of the Jokeri Light Rail line will start on the Otaniemi area at 1st March 2023.
Let’s encourage students to fill out the AllWell? questionnaire on study wellbeing!
Dear Teacher, are you teaching second-year bachelor’s students or first-year masters’ students? The AllWell? study wellbeing questionnaire is open until 1 March. Please encourage the students to respond and give them time to fill out the questionnaire during class.
More than one million euros in grants from the Finnish Cultural Foundation
From Aalto University, the big individual grants were allowed to Ari Seppälä and Antti Karttunen with their research groups
Increase your team's interaction and ability to change
Stress decreases our wellbeing, creativity and capacity for change. Radical Creativity team organised two embodied practices workshops to boost collective resilience and renewal. You can try the exercises with your team.
63 energy guzzlers - tips from the community helped to save energy on the campus
The Aalto community started campus-wide energy saving measures in Otaniemi on 10 October 2022, and we also joined the national Down a Degree energy saving campaign
Solve the SDGs returns — now on two continents
Join the sustainability hackathon by AVP and Junction, organized simultaneously in Finland, Uganda and Tanzania on 31.3.–2.4.
Aalto university innovation groups receive over €4M funding for sustainable innovations
Business Finland has granted research to business funding to seven new Aalto innovation projects. The funding is directed to commercialisation of university born inventions.
Smoking areas on Otaniemi campus updated
Designated smoking areas on Otaniemi campus marked on a map
Koen Van Leemput decodes medical scans with artificial intelligence
Greatest challenge is translating methods from lab settings to patient care, says Aalto University’s new professor
Parliament Sampo sheds light on a century’s worth of political debates
The new service will help researchers, journalists, and the public to understand and oversee democracy
Travel instructions updated - read this before you plan your trip
Aalto University's updated travel instructions entered into force on February 1, 2023. We have compiled the most important changes and links to the updated travel instructions on this page.
Knit an Aalto hat for yourself or a friend!
Follow Marja Niemi and Outi Elina Kansanen’s knitting pattern to make a lovely gift for someone special
Changes in the Alumni Network Board
Mia Sirkiä started as the chair and Ossi Leikola and Riitta Silvennoinen as members
Would you like your research featured in a video?
Apply to be featured in a video showcasing open science practices at Aalto University.
Language policy and guidelines revised during spring - Your input is welcome!
What works well, what should be changed? Tell what you think of our language policy and answer a survey by 3.3.2023.
Spring My Dialogues - the latest guides and tips
New opportunities to develop effective conversation skills and simplifications to the Workday system with new features for notes and attachments.
Remember to apply for Internal Seed Funding before February 17
Aalto Internal Seed Funding is targeted for the preparation of major interdisciplinary consortia proposals seeking funding from external funding agencies or industry. The call closes 17th of February 2023.
