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Metsä Group donates 160 000 euros to Aalto University
The donation has been allocated to the field of technology within the framework of the Finnish government’s match funding campaign.
A new type of hand prosthesis learns from the user — and the user learns from the prosthesis
New research enables more functional and robust robotic prostheses.
School of Business donor stories: Kirsti Tamminen
I am interested in current phenomena, and I want to learn new things. It’s also fun to meet other alumni.
Teacher - sign your course into Personal Impact entity
Personal Impact brings together the credit-based courses taught at Aalto, for example on self-management, values, relevance and wellbeing. The courses provide an opportunity to reflect on one’s own values, beliefs, and goals, either in internal dialogue or in conversations with others. Sounds familiar? Your course could be one of the courses.
Aalto University endowment provided EUR 31 million in 2021 to fund education and research
Progress towards carbon neutral endowment portfolio continued in 2021
Aalto University has set its sights firmly on building a sustainable future
Board approved the Annual Board Report and Financial Statements for 2021
Unite! presents its strategic roadmap towards open science in the digital age
The roadmap includes objectives, recommendations and actions that Aalto and the other universities of the alliance can promote to make Unite! a European driver of open science and innovation by 2023.
Research project develops electrically controlled artificial molecular machines
Electronically controlled molecular machines would be faster as well as easier to manufacture, as they would not need to rely on sophisticated chemical synthesis.
A warm thank you to all our Kauppis 110 donors!
‘It is rewarding to work in an institution with such strong and extensive support of its community,’ says Dean Timo Korkeamäki.
Students developed a strategy implementation tool for NGO Startup Refugees
School of Business students also perform project work for non-commercial organisations
Medals of Honour of the President of the Republic of Finland to Reetta Karinen and Annika Tuomola
Two Presidential Medals of Honour have been awarded to the School of Chemical Engineering.
Aalto Startup Center’s alumni companies increased their turnover in 2020 despite COVID-19
The turnover of Aalto University's alumni companies has developed in the opposite direction from that of Finnish companies on average.
Data protection news for researchers
Actualities in privacy and data protection for the researchers and research projects of Aalto University.
KU Leuven, Aalto University and University of Helsinki join forces to boost research collaboration
New seed funding will be awarded jointly to fund up to five exploratory research projects
New horizons for Unite!
The two new partners Graz University of Technology and Wroclaw University of Science and Technology presented themselves to the Unite! community during the 5th Dialogue.
Academy of Finland’s April 2022 call has been published
The Academy of Finland’s April 2022 call texts are now available on the Academy’s website. Funding can be applied for sustainable and energy-efficient solutions for future ICT, for key area of green and digital transition, and for local research infrastructures (FIRI).
Suggest a name for Otakaari 2A building
The competition is open to all for the first time. Competition time is 10 March - 10 May 2022
CEST research acknowledged at Physics Days
Manuel Kuchelmeister received the best poster award at Physics Days 2022
How an exciting engineering challenge drew a physicist into solar painting
A scientist and an artist worked together to produce a painting that produces electricity, as well as a transdisciplinary podcast. Next, they want to let audiences see all the beautiful things that researchers are normally too shy to showcase.
African European scientific partnership to tackle future critical materials shortages
A collaborative African European project RESTART dedicated to the implementation of a full value chain for recycling end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and photovoltaic solar panels has begun.
