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Aalto community members awarded for their impressive work
The recognition awards were granted to researchers from the Department of Applied Physics, the creators of Little Finlandia, the student Wappu, the quality audit team, and projects Kielibuusti, Finland Works, and Finland Studies – watch the videos and the recordings!
New academic year kicked off
Aalto Day One highlighted the community’s diversity and internationality
New Aalto Distinguished Professor Riitta Salmelin traces the brain’s own ‘fingerprint’
Riitta Salmelin believes that her field of brain imaging has matured to a stage where questions ignored in the early days can now be addressed
Ilkka Niemelä to the Finnish Government: Innovations and sustainable growth will be lost if immigration policies are implemented
Internationality has accelerated innovation and helped many Finnish companies from Aalto along their growth trajectories. Nearly half of Aalto University’s academic staff come from outside Finland, and Aalto students are from more than 100 countries.
Annukka Svanda: It's important to challenge yourself to do hard things
'I believe that those of us who can and are capable have a duty to work to make the world a little better place all the time. For example, we can try to improve the situation of those who are not so well off.'
The School of Chemical Engineering celebrated the annual Elojuhlat party
This year, we celebrated our new academic personnel as well as the remarkable career of Aalto Distinguished Professor, Jukka Seppälä. He will be getting a new title soon, which is Professor Emeritus.
Aalto personnel can participate in FIBS events free of charge
Aalto University is a member of the FIBS corporate responsibility network, so we can all take advantage of the membership fee paid by the university
Aalto IT Thursday News 7 September 2023 at 10 to 11
Join us to hear the latest on current topics of general interest for all Aaltonians, presented by Aalto IT.
Department of Civil Engineering seeks new head of department
The term of the head of department is 1.1.2024–31.12.2026.
Summer School alum story: Pursuing digital business excellence in a diverse learning environment
Summer school’s Digital Business course concludes, enriching participants with digital business skills and cultural experiences.
Aalto Social creates communities across boundaries
Get to know the communities of our own internal social media and visit to have a chat - and please do attend the opening ceremony of the academic year at Aalto Social as well!
Visual identity tweaked for better accessibility, new platform brand.aalto.fi
Colours are brighter to work better in digital channels. New open-source fonts Inter and Besley replace the licensed ones. Brand.aalto.fi comprises brand-related info and assets.
Education collaboration generates new ideas for using design
The School of Arts, Design and Architecture has a long tradition of working together with companies to solve challenges of many kind. Last spring, design students designed concrete speaker models for audio equipment manufacturer Genelec.
Streamlined process for fee payments and guest travel reimbursements to be implemented across Aalto University
The Salesforce form, built in collaboration between HR, IT, and Finance, brings relief to the processing of non-recurring fee payments and guest travel expenses at Aalto University. The new form enhances data security in terms of collecting personal information and streamlines the process by reducing duplicate work and enabling more comprehensive data integration across different systems.
Professor Agatino Rizzo: ‘I believe that interdisciplinary collaboration is a potent catalyst for innovation’
Presenting our new professors: Professor in urban planning Agatino Rizzo
Study offering of programmes and departments for coming academic years is planned by the end of November
Planning the offering of teaching in the coming academic years is topical in departments and in programmes. This means updating the selection of courses as well as selection of majors and minors. Also the significant changes both in courses and in majors and minors are reported during autumn. In almost all Schools this portfoliowork is done somewhat earlier than previously. It is important that all teachers responsible for courses, majors and minors participate in the planning.
Faculty and staff got together at Eloseminaari in Little Finlandia 21 August
Eloseminaari, the annual kick-off event for the new academic year for the School of Arts, Design and Architecture took place in the Little Finlandia building at Töölönlahti Bay this year.
New Course Feedback tool taken into use in Period II
During the autumn term the course feedback tool will be replaced. From 23 October onwards, you will find course feedback on MyCourses.
Professor emeritus Veikko Jääskeläinen In Memoriam
Professor emeritus Veikko Jääskeläinen (1931–2023) served as rector of the Helsinki School of Economics 1992–96
What can you already see of the future?
At the start of the academic year, the Aalto University campus welcomes everyone with open doors. Through the month-long Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition and events, you will discover fascinating research projects.
