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Sweaty relief from acne
The Aalto-Helsinki iGEM team seeking a solution to acne won silver in Boston.

Europe’s largest hackathon Junction takes over Aalto University
Aalto’s main building Dipoli will turn into a giant hackathon community on 24–26 November. Over 1400 coders and designers from all over the world will come together to solve real-life challenges.

Almost three million euro Erasmus Mundus funding for information security master’s programme
The European Commission has granted €2.9M funding for SECCLO – Master’s Programme in Security and Cloud Computing starting in 2018.

International students’ feedback on studies and life at Aalto collected in November
Aalto is taking part in an international survey called International Student Barometer, ISB.
The future is in data science and artificial intelligence – join now
Data science is becoming an essential skill in almost every scientific discipline today, which creates a high demand for data scientists.

School of Business’ Dean awarded successful business students
Dean’s List Scholarships in Academic Year 2016–2017 were given to 24 students.

DIEM welcomes its researchers and doctoral candidates
The most recent DIEM international researchers come from Spain, Romania, South Korea and the USA. Who are they and how do they experience Finland?
2017 Best Physics Doctoral Dissertation and Teacher of the Year prizes awarded
€3,000-prizes were awarded for three Best Doctoral Dissertations in recognition of research and one for Teacher of the Year.
Three public sector organisations take part in Hackathon course
130 students will conceptualise and implement digitalisation projects.

Konecranes assignment inspired students to build smart prototypes
Students designed an assistive tool for the Konecranes' overhead crane.
Master’s student Daniel Bruzual successfully combined software containers with Internet of Things
Bruzual presented his research on the Internet of Things at the Docker conference.

Recent graduate Klaudia Krawiecka received the 2017 national information security Master thesis of the year award
Klaudia’s thesis introduced a new technique that uses widely available trusted hardware for protecting user’s passwords and other sensitive data on the web.
Students assessed the information flow on chemical safety
The European Chemicals Agency was satisfied with the results and is planning to commission a continuation for the project.

EIT Digital Master School kicks-off in Espoo
From October 19-21, approximately 300 international students will gather in Otaniemi for the yearly Kick-Off of the EIT Digital Master School.

Finnish design that conquered Burning Man can be utilised even in human settlements in Mars
The Cosmic Egg was built to the Nevada desert with the help of more than fifty volunteers.
Creative and smart digital services for public sector organisations developed at PSHACK100 course
Students are expected to bring forward innovations to support a client-centred approach.

A night at the galaxy – students of IDBM Challenge created a multisensory space journey
Have you ever dreamt about exploring space? Or simply wondered if you will be able to spend a night up there during your lifetime? These were the questions that the students of IDBM Master’s programme asked – and the end result was a space odyssey.

Students and researchers got together in Computer Science Research Day
Research Day was jointly organized by the departments of Computer Science and Communications and Networking

Aalto Bachelor's programme in Science and Technology in English to start in 2018
The graduates will be top-level experts of digital society. The first majors are Data Science and Digital Systems and Design.

Finns enjoy success at Nordic Collegiate Programming Contest (NCPC)
More than 250 teams took part in the competition, and four of the top ten teams were from Finland.
