Bio2Future course "Novel carbohydrate-based materials from microbes"
This course will be organized for summer 2023. It is target.
ed to postgraduate students, post-doctoral researchers and participants from industry with interest in polysaccharide-based biomaterials and products.
Bio2Future course "Wood construction in climate change mitigation"
EIT Climate-KIC PhD Catapult course will be held from 26th August to 6th September, 2019 in Aalto University, Espoo (Finland) and at Chalmers University, Gothenburg (Sweden). It will comprise a series of inspiring lectures from leading academics and experts in the field of building with wood, together with workshops, technical training sessions and challenge-based group activities.
Sustainable campus
The key environmental impacts of the campus are related to energy consumption and transport. A sustainable and carbon neutral campus is at the core of the campus strategy.
Sustainability reports
Science, technology and arts play an important role in solving global sustainability problems. Aalto University’s strength is its strong multidisciplinary approach to humanity’s greatest challenges, such as environmental crises.
Collaborators
At this point potential partners for commercializing the process have been identified as lime and fertilizer producers, waste transportation and processing companies and companies that offer process solutions.
Research for sustainability
Aalto University generates knowledge, understanding and solutions that enable well-being within the limits of one planet. We combine expertise in art, technology, and business to develop solutions for some of the world's greatest challenges.
Sustainable Aalto
Understood through all its dimensions - ecological, social, economic and cultural - we are committed to carrying out our activities in a sustainable manner. For example, we work actively to develop the energy efficiency of our property portfolio and to reduce energy consumption in our campuses.
FinnCERES
FinnCERES, competence center for materials bioeconomy, is a Flagship for our sustainable future.