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Nominate a winner for Aalto Pioneering Excellence Award
The award is given to teams that do pioneering work in the areas of education development, improvement of the excellence and impact of research and artistic activity; or the international success of the Aalto community.
Space 21 is now officially open 鈥 come visit and explore!
Radical Creativity team will be hosting monthly morning coffees at Space 21, the living room of Radical Creativity
Learn to sail skilfully through uncertain times
In May 2022 a group of Aaltonians participated in a workshop to increase capacity for change, learn to rely on intuition and challenge the current perceptions of learning and problem-solving
How does an oil company make a green leap? Can the procurement community help Ukraine out of trouble? Welcome to the Prodeko seminar on responsible business on 6 May!
The theme of this year's Prodeko seminar is Navigating Responsibility and Growth, and speakers include Kaisa Hietala, Exxon Mobil's Board of Directors, and Sammeli Sammalkorpi, CEO of Sievo Oy.
The 5G Hack the Mall summer course
This year鈥檚 Aalto University 5G summer course will again be held as an online training course from 6 to 17 June 2022.
ABB Oy donates 360 000 euros 色色啦 University
'The world is undergoing a major transformation, and it is important to take care of competence development. High-quality research and future top experts will continue to support Finland's competitiveness,' says Pekka Tiitinen, CEO of ABB Oy.
Meet Airi and Joona, Aalto鈥檚 student representatives in the Unite! university alliance
We talked to Airi and Joona about their new roles as Unite!鈥檚 student representatives and got some great ideas and advice from them.
Data mycelium and a sculptural illusion - winning proposals of Aalto University's public art competition celebrate engineering
The artworks will be located in the K2 and K3 buildings in the Aalto University Works block
Try the easier way to give feedback on facilities
Projector not working, lights broken, trash bin needs emptying? The new feedback feature has now been added to the Aalto Space application. Now you can easily leave feedback or report an issue regarding the facilities.
Biorefineries and Herbert Sixta in spotlight at 2022 seminar
Biorefineries research group annual seminar presented the latest developments in forest-based, sustainable refineries and analytical tools.
Honorary Doctor Tuomas Tenkanen is inspired by the integration of technologies
Tuomas Tenkanen, CEO of Mobidiag Oy, a company focused on infectious disease diagnostics, has been named an honorary doctor of Aalto University, in the field of technology. Tenkanen's pioneering work represents key areas of research at Aalto University, life sciences and health and well-being technologies, combining expertise in enzymatics, diagnostic hardware and IT.
Honorary doctors in technology 2020 - 2022
Aalto University has granted ten Honorary Doctorates of Science in Technology. The new honorary doctors have all made significant impact in science, technology and society.
Inclusive European student mobility being developed in Unite's new project IDEM
The aim is to facilitate, for example, the full participation of students with disabilities and refugee backgrounds in exchange and mobility programs.
Design builds transformation capacity
The book Designing Change is a quick and readable cross-section of Aalto's world-leading design research
Proposal embodying innovative design won Otaniemen Tietokorttelit architecture competition
The winning proposal, nicknamed Superpositio, for the Biology and Marine Technology area design competition in Otaniemi, Espoo
Aalto University offers places to visiting researchers fleeing Ukraine war
Nearly 250 donations for Ukrainian students to study at Aalto so far
Master鈥檚 theses prizes have been awarded
The Dean of the School of Chemical Engineering awards thesis prizes to master of science graduates in technology and doctor of science graduates in technology in 2021.
Unite's new Mission Statement 2030 leads the way forward for the university alliance
Unite! wants to pave the way for the excellence in research, innovation and education that is essential to meet the challenges of our time.
Unite! supports the manifesto for the future of universities in Europe
The Manifesto presents students鈥 ideas on the future of Higher Education in Europe, as well as recommendations to make European universities more in line with their expectations.
Professor Emeritus Herbert Sixta: 鈥淭he most important task of a professor is to educate young people, to help them build their career鈥
After an extensive career in academia and the forest-based industries, Professor Herbert Sixta has retired. Having worked in Austria for 25 years, Sixta arrived 色色啦 in 2007, where his research in biorefineries helped create, among other things, the Ioncell process, a technology that turns used textiles, pulp, and paper into new textile fibres sustainably and without chemicals.
