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Tutkain 2020-2022 project provides Finnish digital newspapers and magazines for research use
Researchers will be able to use Finnish newspapers and magazines from 1930鈥2018 digitised by the National Library.
Three fascinating facts about space 鈥 which mystery would space researcher Joni Tammi like to understand?
When Joni Tammi was on the first grade, he gave his first school presentation about stars. It started a journey that led to a career in space research. But what was the brainwave he got during his studies on a course taught by astronomer Esko Valtaoja?
Nominees for the Metex Awards announced
The four Metex Prize nominees are graduates at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture. Technology Industries of Finland's Centennial Foundation awards the Metex Prize 23 January.
Aalto nuclear fusion expert becomes ITER Scientist Fellow
Dr Antti Snicker becomes the first Finnish Scientist Fellow at ITER, modelling transport of fast particles in tokamak plasmas
Revival of garment mending: communal reskilling addresses global issues of textile waste
Dissertation of the month: Mending clothes, one of the oldest practices known to humankind, nowadays stands for global awareness of the textile waste problem.
脛脛NIAALTO V OPEN CALL
脛脛NIAALTO is an annual festival of audio-visual oddity. It aims to nurture and expand the sound/new media scene in Helsinki, and provide an open culture that is accessible to anybody interested.
The temporary facilities of Finlandia Hall, 鈥淟ittle Finlandia鈥 has been developed with Wood Program and Building Design Studio
Little Finlandia will bring a comfortable living room open to all in the T枚枚l枚nlahti Bay area.
Visual design enables communication between cultures
Award-winning designer Chao Yang sees visual communication design as a means to communicate across borders.
鈥業f you study data science, you won鈥檛 limit your choice of career in the future鈥
Before starting her Data Science studies at Aalto, Angeline Jayanegara obtained a diploma in fashion design. In the future, she would like to work as a Data Scientist in the fashion industry.
Alumna G枚ksu Sarig枚l: My internship prepared me for the next chapter of my professional life
Our alumna G枚ksu Sarig枚l did an internship during her studies through the School of Business Internship Programme for foreign students. 鈥業 was lucky that the School of Business Career Services helped me in this part of my career.鈥
Concrete is聽cast stone moulded by humans
The聽Betoni鈥揅oncrete exhibition presents聽concrete and its use聽from the point of view of聽engineers, architects, designers and聽artists.聽The exhibition opens up on the 23 January in Dipoli.
Pattern Lab 20 designers present new collection in Heimtextil Messe Frankfurt 7鈥10 January
Pattern Lab has an impressive history of more than twenty years of selling successful designs to Scandinavian and international markets. A number of today鈥檚 top textile designers in Finland are Pattern Lab alumni.
Ambiguous problems require new types of leadership
In the future, automation will handle routine tasks, so even newcomers to the workforce will be required to work on complex problems. What should be considered when leading multidisciplinary teams that solve these kinds of challenging problems?
Anna Valtonen's portrait was revealed
The portrait of Anna Valtonen, former Dean of the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at Aalto University, was unveiled at Aalto University's 10th anniversary on 8 January. The portrait was created by the artist, Doctor of Art Maija Tammi.
Machine learning in chemistry - algorithms help finding minimum energy paths and saddle points more effectively
Machine learning brings new possibilities to many areas of research - also chemical research, which is shown in a recent dissertation written at the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence.
Rewriting quantum mechanics in their spare time
A pair of civil servants solve a quantum mechanics problem that had bothered them since they were students
Academy Programme funding for research teams
The funded projects are linked from different perspectives on climate change.
The quietest place in Finland - Acoustics Lab renovation is complete
The laboratory and its office facilities were thoroughly refurbished.
Exploring the nanoscale world
This fall we followed students getting hands on experience in the most common methods used in micro and nanotechnology on the Micronova Laboratory course
Growing demand for climate-friendly construction: could wood architecture become one of Finland鈥檚 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鈥檚 latest developments.
