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Mimi Tran used the open university path in technology to transfer from beauty and cosmetics to engineering
Second-year chemical engineering student Mimi Tran graduated in 2019 as a beauty care professional, but wanted to continue studying and developing her skills. Currently, Mimi is pursuing a major in bioproducts with a minor in industrial engineering and management.

Multifunctional Materials Design: highlights of 2021 and aspirations for 2022
Overview of research group achievements and future plans

We strive to provide support to those affected by the war in Ukraine
Updates to the actions Aalto University is taking in response to the war

How to lead and educate for the future?
Aalto's capacity building project experiments with methods, which may help us become more capable of implementing systemic changes

Empower your international career - online sessions with Unite!
Unite! partner universities offer online sessions that will help students further their knowledge on the labor market, with particular focus on international careers.

The organisers of Laskiaisrieha expect a relaxed student vibe and encounters across university boundaries
The history of Laskiaisrieha spans over decades. Nowadays, it is organised by Vapaateekkarit in cooperation with Aalto University Student Union (AYY). However, the event did not take place in 2021, so on Tuesday 1 March 2022 it will be organised for the first time in two years.

For students: Learn languages and intercultural competencies online with Unite!
Unite! partner universities offer online courses in language, communication and global competence that are open to all Aalto University students.

More than half a million euros for science and art grants
At Aalto University, 31 researchers or working groups receive a grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation

From a cabin crew member to a chemical engineer
Mariina Tikka, who is completing a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, started her studies in autumn 2020. For her major, Mariina chose bioproducts (biotuotteet in Finnish), which is one of the three options in the School of Chemical Engineering Finnish Bachelor's programme. Interested in natural sciences, especially biology, Mariina feels that she has found her place in the field of chemical engineering.

Otakaari 2A and 2B construction will start 21 February
Otakaari 2A and 2B construction will start during February.

Student, are you Aalto University’s next campus guide?
As a campus guide, you provide the personnel, visitors and other members of our community with memorable campus experience

Paula Jouhten seeks to replace oil-based chemistry by controlling the physiology of microbial cells
Paula Jouhten, D.Sc., started her five-year fixed-term professorship at the Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems at the beginning of 2022. Jouhten leads the Microbial Physiology research group at Aalto University.

Space 21 - a project space for experimentation!
Space 21, a project space for the use of all Aalto community, opened its doors in spring 2022

Summer Job Day 2022 fluently turned into a virtual event
Summer Job Day 2022 recruitment fair was organized virtually on 19-20 January 2022 on JobTeaser.

EUR 11 million for research infrastructures
The Academy of Finland funding strengthens, among other things, fabrication of micro and nanostructures, quantum and high-performance computing, biomedical imaging, future wireless networks, and arctic research

Wood products Online course starts 3.3.2022
You may follow the course independently whenever it is suitable for you during periods IV-V.

MMD pre-Xmas event 2021
Multifunctional Materials Design research group's end-of-the-year celebration

Where would you like to sit down, which part of the campus needs garden benches? Leave your proposal!
Propose where new garden benches and different kinds of plants will be set up to the campus in spring 2022.