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Professor Tuuli Mattelm盲ki: 鈥淚nsight often comes through surprise鈥
Professor of Design is researching how creative and empathetic working methods can promote social change and eco-social sustainability.
ACM transitioning to fully open access in 2026
ACM publications will be 100 % open access 1.1.2026 onwards
Is academic freedom being respected? Respond to a survey by 10 November
The Committee for Public Information (TJNK) asks responses from researchers and experts working with research.
Grants from the Wihuri Foundation
Thirty-seven individuals or working groups from Aalto University received grants from the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation 鈥 a total of nearly 1.3 million euros in funding
Run for academic committees and make an impact
Members will be elected for the committees for the new term starting in 2026
Board invites Aaltonians to participate in the University Preview
The Aalto University Board convened on 25 September 2025
Student artwork symbolises the Unite! Alliance
Master of Arts student, Suthasinee Naktnasukanjn (Sine), has won the Unite! artefact competition with her artwork 鈥楤looming Beyond Borders鈥. The piece now hangs permanently in the Undergraduate Centre.
Connecting the creative community 鈥 Aalto ARTS launches newsletter and LinkedIn page
The School of Arts, Design and Architecture has launched a new Friends of Aalto ARTS newsletter and opened its own LinkedIn page.
Information is our valuable asset 鈥 Let鈥檚 work together to ensure cybersecurity
All university employees must complete a course on cybersecurity by the end of the year, as well as courses on data protection and ethical principles
Trainings for OneDrive, Teams and Outlook this autumn 2025
Topics include OneDrive document management, Teams meetings' best practices, Collaboration best practices with Teams and Outlook tips and tricks. All trainings are in English and in Finnish.
Aalto developing a multidisciplinary Bachelor's programme 鈥 students to choose their major during their studies
Launching in autumn 2027, the new multidisciplinary Bachelor鈥檚 programme will combine science and technology, business, and arts and design
Aalto University strengthens significantly Finnish film education and research
The teaching and research of film directing at Aalto University is being strengthened with two new professor appointments. Hanna Maylett has been appointed Assistant Professor of Film Directing and Juho Kuosmanen has been appointed Professor of Practice of Film Directing. Furthermore, the teaching and research of film production have also been strengthened with recent new appointments.
Young Designer of the Year 2025 is Enni L盲hderinne
L盲hderinne challenges the way fashion maintains certain body images and builds more acceptance towards all kinds of human bodies.
ELO films were triumphant at the Love & Anarchy Film Festival
ELO students' films won a total of three prize, including the main prize.
New members to be elected for the academic committees
You can check your right to vote and consider standing as a candidate
Heikki Mannila appointed as Aalto University鈥檚 Associate Vice President, AI Strategy and Adoption
Mannila will begin in this position on 1 October 2025 and will also continue in his previous roles as a professor at the Department of Computer Science and as director of the multidisciplinary centre House of AI
Harri Paananen, triple alum of Aalto University, moves to NATO from the City of Espoo
鈥業n doctoral studies, you need to be able to define the problem yourself and solve it,鈥 says Aalto University鈥檚 triple alum Harri Paananen. He first applied that mindset in the City of Espoo and now in his new role at NATO.
