We might feel love in our fingertips 鈥撯 but did the Ancient Mesopotamians?
A multidisciplinary team of researchers studied a large body of texts to find out how people in the ancient Mesopotamian region (within modern day Iraq) experienced emotions in their bodies thousands of years ago, analysing one million words of the ancient Akkadian language from 934-612 BC in the form of cuneiform scripts on clay tablets.
The AllWell? student survey is open 30.1.-13.2.2025
Hello, second-year bachelor鈥檚 student or first-year master鈥檚 student, how are you?
Respond to the AllWell? student survey!
Respond to the AllWell? student survey!
Supporting your study ability and wellbeing, December 2024
Dear student! Aalto offers services, guidance and self-study materials that support your study ability and wellbeing.
Invitation to answer survey: Students, housing, and social spaces: where do you live, why, & what do you think of it?
The purpose of this voluntary survey is to understand the students' housing situation in Finland.
New guideline: Aalto University Code of Academic Integrity in Studies
A new guideline, the Aalto University Code of Academic Integrity in Studies will enter into force on 1 January 2025. The code, approved by the University Academic Affairs Committee in September 2024, will replace the previous similar guideline approved in 2011, the Aalto University Code of Academic Integrity and Handling Violations thereof.
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Register for courses in Sisu during the registration period.
CoDaS Master鈥檚 Programme in Communications and Data Science (Erasmus Mundus) 鈥 Application period open!
CoDaS is an international joint master鈥檚 degree programme offered by five European universities.
Fees put on all applications for return of study right; handling fee to rise in 2025
As of 1 January 2025, the fee for application handling will be 50 euros. A service break lasting about a week will occur in early January while the system is being upgraded.
Professor Risto Ilmoniemi Awarded as Espoo Ambassador 2024
This recognition highlights Professor Ilmoniemi's significant contributions to bringing and organising international scientific congresses and summer schools in Finland, Espoo, and abroad
New origami packaging technology creates sustainable and eye-catching alternatives to conventional packing materials
Origami packaging enables completely new properties for cartonboard, making it an excellent alternative to, for example, plastic and expanded polystyrene in packaging. The aesthetics of the material have also garnered interest from designers.
Quantum physics professor searches for exotic qubit alternatives with new European funding
Aalto University physics professor Jose Lado will use this funding to engineer a new type of topological quantum material that could have applications for quantum bit, or 鈥渜ubit,鈥 development for noise-resilient topological quantum computation.
Talvikki Hovatta wants to solve a mystery that has plagued astronomers for decades
A new receiver at the Mets盲hovi Radio Observatory and ERC funding from the European Research Council will enable research into the composition of relativistic jets launched by supermassive black holes
Bachelor's theses in technology will be possible to publish at Aaltodoc from the beginning of year 2025
From the beginning of year 2025, the publication of all bachelor's theses in the field of technology in the Aalto university鈥檚 Aaltodoc publication archive will become possible. This change now also offers technology students the same opportunity to publish their thesis as ARTS and BIZ students already have.
Independence Day decorations for Aalto personnel
The President of Finland awards decorations 色色啦 University employees on the Finnish Independence Day. Congratulations!
Educational Opportunities Across Europe 鈥 check the Unite! Student Catalogue
Academic and extracurricular offerings from nine universities in the Unite! alliance.
Aalto computer scientists in NeurIPS 2024
Department of Computer Science papers accepted to the conference on Neural Information Processing Systems.
Aalto computer scientists in Asiacrypt 2024
Department of Computer Science papers accepted to the Asiacrypt 2024 conference.
Aalto to start e-diploma system in autumn 2025
The electronic degree certificate is an official original document bearing the digital signature of the school dean.聽
Aalto's satellite team and research funding specialists awarded for their outstanding work
The Aalto Pioneering Excellence Award is given annually to selected teams for their work in advancing quality and excellence. In addition to main prizes, Closing Loops research pilot received an honourable mention.
EIBA 2024 鈥 鈥淭hat鈥檚 interesting! Rethinking IB research for the next 50 years鈥
It鈥檚 time to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of EIBA (European International Business Academy) and the future of research in the field of IB (International Business)
