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Towards social sustainability at Aalto
The concept of social sustainability was discussed by Aalto community in the Wellbeing on a Sustainable Campus event of the Earth Hour Week 2023.
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.
Professor İdil Gaziulusoy: ‘Our future visions are not ambitious enough’
Presenting the new professors: Professor in sustainable design Ä°dil Gaziulusoy
Finnish academia and companies lead the way towards sustainable nonwoven products in SUSTAFIT research project
Sustainable fit-for-purpose nonwovens project boosts the competitiveness and broadens the export potential of the Finnish nonwovens sector in the growing markets. The 2,6 MEUR project is conducted by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) and Aalto University and supported by 17 industry partners.
Big savings in campus' energy consumption
Aalto community took up energy conservation measures covering the entire Otaniemi campus on 10 October 2022.
Alumnus Michael Hanf: Finland provides a great place to live and work
‘Helsinki caught my attention as it was different from the typical locations my fellow students selected.’ says Michael Hanf who came to do exchange studies at the then Helsinki School of Economics in the end of 1990s. After that he has been working in Finland and Germany and currently is the co-founder of Taival Advisory, helping clients to consider sustainability and circularity in their strategic decision making.
An Entrepreneurial Mindset: What Does it Mean in Teaching?
Integrate an entrepreneurial mindset into your course and curricula with competencies drafted by the Aalto Co-Educator team.
Finland’s top sustainability reports are of high quality
Stora Enso won the overall competition for the third time
Good variety of ideas and questions about energy saving from the Aalto community
Our experts answer questions from the Aalto community
Inkjet printers and hydrogen dreams: Millennium Graduate Student winner Sanaz Zarabi Golkhatmi
Sanaz Zarabi employed a fabrication technique that promises to wildly increase the effectiveness of our renewable energy solutions. With it, she won first place in the Millennium Graduate Student Contest 2022.
Alfred Kordelin prize of 50 000 euros to Professor Minna Halme
According to the Prize Committee, Halme’s work has directly contributed towards a more sustainable society
Closing the university campus would be the most effective energy action? True or false: eight claims about saving energy
We found out answers to eight claims about saving energy
Over 300 species identified in a citizen science event, the Otaniemi Campus Bioblitz
Bioblitz at Aalto University was organised in Otaniemi on 8 September by Aalto University, AYY student union and Symbioosi ry, the student association of biology students in the University of Helsinki
Master's studies in Biotechnology provide a strong theoretical basis for Dinara's research
Dinara Bozzhigitova works at VTT, in an enzyme and material biotechnology research team. In autumn 2022, she started her Master's studies in Biotechnology at the School of Chemical Engineering. Dinara's goal is to gain a more thorough understanding of the theory behind her work, and to help develop new, sustainable technologies.
Aalto University aims at a 15 per cent annual energy saving
The impacts of the measures, targeted at the university buildings, will be monitored for a period of 12 months, after which the next steps will be agreed upon
Submit your nomination for the Campus Sustainability Champion 2022!
Enter your suggestion for a campus sustainability champion by 23 September
Collaboration between Wärtsilä and Aalto University is expanding - aiming for sustainable future solutions
One key driver of the partnership is the energy transition and the need to develop new zero-emission fuel solutions.
The participatory budgeting project culminated in a happy planting workshop
One Euro for Every Student project culminated in a planting workshop in mid-May on the new garden benches
Growth and responsibility in business discussed at the Prodeko seminar
Can business growth be responsible? How did corona change the operations of a software company? Responsibility and growth were discussed at the 2022 Prodeko seminar on 6 May.
