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Academy Programme funding for research teams
The funded projects are linked from different perspectives on climate change.

Dissertation award for bridging the gap between theory and practice through Design Science
D.Sc. Mikael Öhman’s doctoral dissertation receives award from the Finnish Production Planning and Control Society

The quietest place in Finland - Acoustics Lab renovation is complete
The laboratory and its office facilities were thoroughly refurbished.

Architecture and design for healthcare
The Health Talks @ Aalto event discusses how design and architecture can be used to benefit different patient groups.

Growing demand for climate-friendly construction: could wood architecture become one of Finland’s exports?
The Wood Wonders exhibition to be opened at Helsinki Airport on the 5th of February will show passengers the innovations related to wood construction and display the sector’s latest developments.

Huawei and F-Secure donate ɫɫÀ² information security students - attracts excellent students to Finland
These donations will contribute to HAIC's ability to offer generous scholarships to several students admitted to study information security at Aalto in 2020

Toward a team that is able to achieve its potential
We believe in the promise of teamwork and collaboration. This post provides tips and introduces tools for teachers to utilise in supporting teamwork in project-based courses.

Professor Tom Bäckström: Smart devices can eavesdrop and therefore we must study privacy
Social rules involving privacy should be considered in the design of speech interfaces.

Jaana Vapaavuori and Kati Miettunen receive significant funding for developing new composite biomaterials
Four million euros of funding has been granted to research supporting the forest industry and forestry sector in Finland and Sweden.

Ecological fertilizer from wastewater nutrients
By using the innovative NPHarvest-process wastewater treatment plants can get an efficient pretreatment while producing ecological fertilizer simultaneously.

Aalto is taking part of H2020 project TERAWAY
TERAWAY is a H2020 5GPPP Phase III project funded by the European Union coming as a technology intensive project aiming to develop a disruptive generation of THz transceivers for high-capacity BH and FH links in 5G networks.

Opportunities in Russia Seminar was held on 3 December 2019
Opportunities in Russia Seminar was held on 3 December 2019, organized by the Finnish-Russian Commission for Scientific and Technological Cooperation/Working Group for Social Sciences, in cooperation with the Aalto University School of Business/CEMAT and East Office of Finnish Industries.

EIT Climate-KIC supported Ioncell directly offers an innovation that regenerates fibres, while enabling them to be recyclable and biodegradable
Ioncell, conceptualised out of Aalto University, provides a closed-loop technology to regenerate cellulosic fibres without using harmful chemicals.

Xmas Demo Day 2019 in photos
Collection of photos from the latest Demo Day organized on the 5th of December 2019.

Finland’s exhibition in the Biennale Architettura 2020 honors the Finnish prefabricated wooden houses of the WWII era
The exhibition will be conceived and curated by three researchers and teachers at Aalto University.

Making understanding quantum computers easier
IBM collaborates with Professor Sabrina Maniscalco and her group to develop new transformative tools for teaching and outreach about quantum technologies

Food for thought – rethinking Singapore’s Hawker Centres
Singapore’s traditional open-air cooked food centres or hawker centres presented a perfect case to be explored jointly by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Aalto University.

Helsinki and FCAI will host a new ELLIS unit for top AI research
Finnish artificial intelligence research received a significant acknowledgement. Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI will host one of the new European units of top AI research, as the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems will establish one of its first units in Finland.

Finland Prizes awarded to professor, designer Pirjo Kääriäinen and alumna, artist and activist Marja Helander
Among this year’s prize recipients were Professor of Practice of Design driven fibre innovation Pirjo Kääriäinen and Aalto ARTS alumna, photographer, filmmaker and activist Marja Helander.

Plenty more indoor air research to be done – correct cleaning methods improve home air quality
We spend an average of 90% of our time indoors, so indoor air quality matters.
