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Calling Nordic Youth: Join the Arctic Encounter 2025!
The Nordic Youth Grant for the Arctic offers 12 young people a chance to attend the Arctic Encounter Symposium in Anchorage, Alaska, in April 2025.

Pectin-based composite for ‘smart’ window and energy storage applications
Novel application of pectin as photothermal material

Product Development Path Maker awards handed out for the first time
The new national Product Development Path Maker awards were handed out at Aalto University Design Factory. The grand prize was awarded to KONE Veturi, a project that develops sustainable urban housing for the future.

A breakthrough in photonic time crystals could change how we use and control light
The new discovery could dramatically enhance technologies like lasers, sensor, and optical computing in the near future.

Learn more about space with Tähtitiistai lectures
The speakers talked about the history of Finnish space research, the secrets of black holes, quasars, Earth-sized telescopes and solar research. Watch the recordings now and find out more about upcoming events at Marsio.

Rent a meeting room on the Aalto University campus with just a few clicks – organise a meeting, workshop or event in Otaniemi
Aalto University Campus & Real Estate (ACRE) has opened a new online service of rental the meeting and event facilities located on Aalto University's Otaniemi campus.

Five things everyone should know about AI in the workplace
Generative AI seems to be everywhere these days, but does it really make work easier and businesses more productive?

Summer School Alum Story: 'Creativity is a language that doesn't need words'
Driving change and new perspectives as part of the Radical Creativity course by Aalto University Summer School.
Battery demand is growing exponentially – BATCircle3.0 provides a leap in battery material and recycling research in Finland
The three-year BATCircle3.0 project, led by Aalto University, offers a strategic focus on new openings for battery materials refining and battery recycling.

Event on funding opportunities with the U.S. Department of Defense
FARIA (Finnish-American Research & Innovation Accelerator) is excited to invite you to an engaging event focused on the funding opportunities offered by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and expert guidance on developing research proposals. The event will feature international speakers with extensive experience in working with DoD funding, who will share valuable insights on the do's and don'ts of working with U.S. funding.
Artificial intelligence tools to support information retrieval
Artificial intelligence is also going to change information retrieval and many databases are developing their own AI-based add-ons.

Opportunity for service staff to participate in a research on organisational well-being climate - rewarded with a tailored well-being report and tips
Niina Nurmi would like to invite Aalto's service staff to participate in a survey.

Call for Project Funding: Applying the new language guidelines to teaching, School of Engineering
Funding call focused on promoting multilingual education at the School of Engineering. The aim is to promote multilingual and language-aware teaching.

Aalto Wiki: Workspaces that have not been edited for over 10 years to be archived
The archived workspaces will be deleted after 12 months.

Aalto computer scientists in EMNLP 2024
Department of Computer Science paper accepted to the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.

New website redesign makes it easier to find and navigate information
The website of the School of Arts and Design has been restructured. A light grey side panel has been added to the left-hand side of the website, making it much easier to navigate between pages and find information. The panel can be displayed and hidden by clicking on the box-like icon in the top left-hand corner of the page.

Physicists unlock transformative new way to transmit information over laser light
The discovery, centred around controlling tiny hurricanes of light and electromagnetic fields, could revolutionise how much information we can deliver over cables.

Dean's list scholarship awarded to outstanding business students
Dean of the School of Business awards students every autumn
Automatic alternative texts available in three languages
In order to improve accessibility on aalto.fi, editors can request alternative texts to be automatically generated by AI when uploading an image to the website.

FT50 Journals available in Aalto open access agreements
Aalto-affiliated corresponding authors can publish articles without the open access fee.
