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KY Alumni association welcomes all former students of Aalto University School of Business to join their activities
Through KY Alumni association alumni can meet with each other and current students, hear about latest happenings at KY, and participate in selected KY events.
Finland will benefit from energy transition by participating actively in technology and market development
In the Smart Energy Transition project, energy transition gradually changed from being a gradually increasing signal of change into a part of everyday public debate. A discussion on the results of the project, which is open to the public, will be held on 1 December.
A six-meter wide seaweed installation takes over Finnish shopping centre
Julia Lohmann's globally acknowledged seaweed pavilion is on display around the clock at A Bloc in Otaniemi, Finland.
Photography & VCD Master's Thesis Presentations Autumn 2020
Welcome to the MA thesis presentations of the Photography & Visual Communication Design programmes.
A Choreography of Violence
Photographer Harri Pälviranta collected pictures of violence for two decades and didn't know what to do with them. Get to know how he chose to dissect violence and combine old pictures with new ones.
Scientists use bacteria as micro-3D printers
Technique creates highly customised structures that could be used in regenerative medicine
Moving to Finland to make solar panels from trees
Maryam Esmaeilzadeh tells us about her AScI Internship and how it’s led to a PhD place in Finland
China’s new five-year plan to focus on technological development and carbon neutrality – as well as serving the country’s rapidly growing middle class
The plan has global significance because China usually achieves the goals it sets out
Strategic Research Council (SRC) asks for proposals for the next research themes – have your say!
The online survey is open until 12.11.2020.
Satellite laboratory hosted a remote lecture with a 360 camera
Upper secondary school students watched the lecture from an 8K screen. The experiment was carried out in collaboration with telecommunications company Elisa.
How a foreign market entry fails: the case of Guggenheim Helsinki
Both local and overseas resistance proved too difficult to overcome, highlighting need to study culture, decision-making and political power relations before moving into new market
Start preparing for Horizon Europe now!
The new research and innovation framework programme Horizon Europe is due to start next year. The goal at the moment is that the first calls would open in April, 2021.
AVP explores new ways for true multidisciplinarity in education
By combining two existing courses, Aalto Ventures Program created a multidisciplinary experience in cosmetic product design.
Artificial intelligence helps to identify correct atomic structures
Detecting adsorbate configurations with Bayesian inference.
Drive faster, or get fired
New book by Professor Henri Schildt explains how AI is changing management mindsets and the future of work
Alumnus Ville Vahteri: The opportunity cost of becoming an entrepreneur as a student is often at its lowest level
Our alumnus Ville Vahteri, who studied marketing at the School of Business, was actively involved in organizing the startup event Slush throughout his studies. Emboldened by the experience, he co-founded Bou, a brand company, together with his Slush colleagues.
Distribution rights system will raise fuel prices - compensation for people with low income will only require a fraction of the revenue from system
Economists developed possible compensation models based on extensive person and vehicle data. The report was published at a Ministry of Transport and Communications webinar on 27 October.
Public private partnership in industrial service research boosted scientific publication in Finland
Service Solutions for Fleet Management program was designed to support industrial firms’ digital transformation toward advanced fleet-level service systems.
Gesture recognition technology shrinks to micro size
New resource-efficient gesture recognition technology developed together with company HitSeed can be embedded into smart clothing.
