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PORT_2025 brings Aalto students together to tackle sustainability and AI challenges
PORT_2025 brought Aalto University students together to tackle sustainability & AI challenges, fostering innovation and collaboration with mentorship from industry leaders.
Study: World鈥檚 critical food crops at imminent risk from rising temperatures
Warming will severely decrease the amount of global cropland available for staple crops of rice, maize, potato and soybean.
Antti Oulasvirta as a member of the CHI Academy
Professor Antti Oulasvirta is the first Finnish to be elected to the International Academy of Human-Computer Interaction.
Radical creativity online course reached 10,000 registrants
By practicing creativity, you develop the skills and mindset needed to overcome obstacles and solve various challenges.
Students developed the store-picking process in Prisma stores
A total of five groups of students wanted to solve a challenge by the S Group
Student Anusha Porwal: Studies build a strong foundation for understanding speech and language technologies
Anusha Porwal is studying Signal, Speech and Language Processing as a master's student. The field of speech and language technology is developing rapidly, and her studies at Aalto have provided her with a good foundation for understanding the real challenges and future development of the field.
New business & management e-books
Aalto University has acquired new Edward Elgar e-books in the field of business and management.
Scientific and Artistic Advisory Boards offer praise and proposals for development
The visits of the advisory boards focused particularly on discussing with the schools and departments 鈥 explore the report
Aalto Internal Funding Call 2025 - For Cooperation Initiatives with the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Aalto is offering financial support for cooperation initiatives with TUM for the year 2025.
Aalto University and Saab sign a new ten-year collaboration agreement
The second ten-year collaboration agreement strengthens and deepens research cooperation
Alum Philipp Hummel: 鈥楳eaningful work revolves around three key aspects鈥
Our Global Management alum Philipp Hummel works as a Consultant at Bain & Company. For him, meaningful work revolves around three key aspects: broader positive impact, personal growth, and flexibility.
Automated transfer of travel agency receipts to the Neo system using robotics
The development of travel service technologies continues with improvements designed to facilitate processes for end users. As of Wednesday, February 26, 2025, receipts from the travel agency CWT will be automatically transferred to the travel and expense management system Neo using robotic automation.
Overview of Aalto's open access publications 2024
91 % of Aalto's scientific journal articles published in 2024 are available open access.
Aalto University updates its Open Science and Research Policy
Aalto鈥檚 open science and research policy has been renewed. The policy gives guidance to all researchers.
Second National Open Science and Research Monitoring Conducted in Autumn 2024
Results of the second national open science and research monitoring.
A language-supported study path enhances technology students' employability
Higher education institutions in the Helsinki metropolitan area are working together to develop language-aware teaching. The Aalto sub-project focuses on the technology sector. It integrates Finnish as a second language studies into an English-language bachelor's degree. Students will receive language-related counseling. Content studies will be integrated in collaboration with technology teachers.
Make the most out of your summer in Finland with Aalto University Summer School
Why visit Finland in the summer? Everyone should experience the never-setting Nordic summer sun, the clean air, the hundreds of thousands of lakes and islands, and the slower way of life at least once.
Design Factory Unveils New Publication on Creative Practices
The visual documentary Designing Culture - Perspectives on Creative Practices from Aalto Design Factory Designers explores the essence of what makes Design Factory a unique, design-driven organization and offers insights into the creative practices that drive innovation and learning. 鈥淢y goal was to shine a light on the often-unseen yet deeply impactful work of the design professionals who help shape the culture and identity of Aalto Design Factory鈥, states the editor, Design Coordinator Anna Kuukka.
Olli-Pekka Pentj盲rvi develops biorefining technologies: 鈥淲ith chemical engineering skills, I can influence industrial environmental issues.鈥
Studies in chemical engineering led Olli-Pekka Pentj盲rvi to launch a new biorefinery plant that produces bioethanol from bamboo to reduce transport emissions. Olli-Pekka's work is to scale biorefining technologies to an industrial scale. Chemical engineering provided Olli-Pekka with extensive tools and networks for solving industrial environmental issues.
Doubling-down on an almost one-hundred-year old math formula unlocks more controllable qubits
Physicists found a simple and effective way to skip over an energy level in a three-state system, potentially leading to increased quantum computational power with fewer qubits.
