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The research group coordinated by Ali Tehrani aims to provide sustainable solutions in the textile industry. Riku Jäntti’s group is developing sensor network technologies to help monitoring wood-based composites used for built environment. Jaana Vapaavuori leads the research group that seeks to enhance circular economy and utilise carbon-negative materials.

Kari Halonen’s research group develops new diagnostic tools to support clinicians in their work with elderly, paediatric and disabled care. The research group led by Laura Arpiainen provides practical solutions to enable more inclusive, creative, and sustainable urban planning. Monika Österberg leads the group that will improve materials research by providing an online interactive data library.

Mahdi Pourakbari Kasmaei’s research group will harness AI in the fight for carbon neutrality of energy ecosystem. The research groups led by Anton Kuzyk and Juho Pokki-Riikonen combine microscopy integrable devices, recent cell-culturing techniques in 3D, and nanotechnology, with the goal of providing enhanced solutions for cancer treatments. The idea of Ä°dil Gaziulusoy’s research group challenges incremental approaches to sustainability innovation and aims to push innovation agendas of businesses to become transformative.

The topics of the projects support at least one of the cross-cutting areas of the Aalto strategy: Solutions for Sustainability, Radical Creativity, and Entrepreneurial Mindset. They demonstrate a systematic approach to solving a significant problem requiring expertise from several fields. Research aims for societal impact through innovation, experimentation, and new knowledge, making it relevant for both Aalto University and Finnish society.

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New seed funding calls for cross-cutting areas will be opened annually (2022, 2023, 2024). The next call will launch in August 2022. For more information, turn to Krisztina Cziner, Head of Platform Services. 

In research, Radical Creativity refers to new and set-breaking frameworks and processes, paradigm-challenging approaches, or even paradigm shifts. Funded projects reflect that idea well, as they present radically creative, risk-taking, and new ambitious research openings within and across disciplines, and test ideas for future elaborations.

A research group led by Antti Ahlava will be researching transdisciplinary strategy tools and experimental and speculative collaboration methods. The research will contribute to societally transformative creativity.

The cross-school research group led by Tua Björklund creates new knowledge of radical creativity in emergent transdisciplinary networks. It will challenge monodisciplinary notions of creativity, contributing to supporting and leveraging diverse approaches to radical creativity.

Maarit Mäkelä leads the research group which will re-think ceramics and geopolymers. The use of geopolymers would offer sustainable solutions for the construction sector and concrete production, but also transform the way traditional ceramics is made and seen by envisioning the potential of unfired clay.

The research group led by Laura Beloff and Ilkka Tittonen will explore the possibilities of optics and nanosciences promoting new paradigms in arts and design. The research has the potential to change the way we look and see – especially colours and how we will use them.

This research call sought emerging groups exploring novel ideas for a radically new future and high breakthrough potential. The key criterion was that radical creativity must be somehow involved – be it as a research topic, in the methods and the courage to use them, or in the ways of collecting data or reporting research. While the research could be in early stages, there has to be a few prior studies or results from the research scope. Funding aims to support transdisciplinary research in any field and through any method done and used at Aalto.

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The 2022 calls’ evaluation process was handled by the Aalto Networking Platform Task Force. Proposals were finally approved by Vice President of Research Ossi Naukkarinen and the Research Steering Group (ReSG) in March 2022.

Summary slide-set of the evaluation process and one sliders of the funded proposals