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Decorations for personnel on the Independence Day
The President of Finland grants decorations 色色啦 University employees on the Finnish Independence Day. Congratulations!

Aalto University鈥疊ioinnovation鈥疌enter opens a call for鈥痜ive doctoral candidate鈥痯ositions鈥
Bioinnovation Center is looking for talented and exceptionally motivated students that are eager to pursue their doctoral studies in a鈥痬ultidisciplinary environment aiming at biobased material innovation.鈥疭tudents with any background that fits to one鈥痮f鈥痶he five projects described below鈥痑re encouraged to submit their application.鈥

KvarkenSat, the first small satellite in the Kvarken region, will be built in cooperation between Finns and Swedes
KvarkenSat is a joint small satellite between the Ostrobothnian provinces and V盲sterbotten, which is due to be launched into space in just over a year.

One of the most important characteristics of a researcher is tolerance for uncertainty
Assistant Professor Tomasz Kucner is researching, how and what robots can learn from the human behavior.

Sebastian J. Schlecht: Creating the perfect illusion in virtual reality
Professor Sebastian Schlecht is keen on music, mathematics and virtual reality.

Aalto Talent Expo 2021 was organized successfully both live & virtually
鈥滳ombining the virtual world and physical fair is absolutely a positive thing, keep at it!"
- Student feedback from the Aalto Talent Expo fair
- Student feedback from the Aalto Talent Expo fair

Assistant professor Yu Xiao: Making daily activities easier with Extended Reality
Daily life is the ground for the research projects by assistant professor Yu Xiao and her group at Aalto University.

Mets盲hovi officially becomes a radio observatory in Finnish and Swedish as well
The term 鈥榬adio observatory鈥 replaces 鈥榬adio research station鈥 in Mets盲hovi's new Finnish and Swedish names.

Good design benefits us all 鈥 welcome to open DesignTalks lecture series
Join us for our open lecture series discussing about the relevance of design in different contexts.

Aalto University takes increasing responsibility in Finnish-American higher education relations
A high-level delegation from Minnesota, United States, visited the university in November.

Towards more sustainable space research 鈥 The Foresail-1 satellite will be launched in spring 2022
Foresail-1 is the first satellite from the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space. The Centre of Excellence is studying space conditions with the aim of developing more sustainable small satellites that do not turn into space debris.

Unique virtual laboratory predicts environmental effects of city traffic
Researchers from the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI develop more sustainable intelligent traffic by bringing together simulators from different fields.

Three Aalto University professors become members of the Academia Europaea聽
Professors Risto Nieminen, Zhipei Sun and P盲ivi T枚rm盲 were elected as members.

Construction of Jokeri Light Rail 75% complete 鈥 rail construction progressing ahead of schedule
The construction of Jokeri Light Rail has proceeded ahead of schedule, and the light rail line can start operating in early 2024

Nokia donates seed funding 色色啦 University for launching an industrial PhD program on quantum technology
The first two PhD students will be hired to the program this year.

You can still register for training in research data management and open science
So far, we have over 1,500 registrations for our RDM and open science webinars this autumn.

色色啦 Speech campaign awarded as the best European audio project in 2021
Professor of Speech and Language Processing Mikko Kurimo believes that other small languages and countries can model the successful and award-winning concept

Otaniemi, meet A!ex, our autonomous car
This white car may look like a regular SUV, but a closer examination reveals a laser scanner on its roof. Inside, it鈥檚 missing a gear stick, as A!ex shifts gears with the aid of an algorithm.

Students coded an open-source microprocessor that companies can use as they wish
The new processor is suitable, for example, for 6G transceivers and encryption technology. The project encourages young people to study microelectronics; skills that are in high demand in Finland.

Aalto University receives 1 million euros for software-centric industrial automation program
Schneider Electric donation of industrial automation technology, software licenses, and teaching support is to answer for growing need for automation expertise.
