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Academy of Finland calls on Academy Programmes, FIRI funding and international joint calls
The Academy of Finland will open the calls on three Academy Programmes, Finnish Research Infrastructures (FIRI) and international joint projects during the springtime.
Faculty and staff, study Finnish in spring 2019!
As faculty or staff member, you have many opportunities to learn Finnish in spring term 2019.
New content in Statista database: Global Consumer Survey
Statista provides statistics, industry reports and market research among other things. Aalto University has now also access to Global Consumer Survey.
Visitor record was made at the Harald Herlin Learning Centre
Last year we had 381,710 visitors at the Learning Centre, total growth compared to 2017 was 24 % (306,870).
Research Integrity Barometer survey
Research Integrity Barometer charts experiences of research misconduct, the scope and effectivity of research-ethical guidelines and training, and values and ethics. The survey is aimed at research and teaching staff.
How to use artificial intelligence to augment multidisciplinary education
Using semantic matching to find teachers and students for the FITech Summer Boost course.
Outlook has more meeting rooms available for booking
We have added more meeting rooms into Outlook. This enables easy room booking when sending a meeting request.
Programme Forum focused on solutions to improve student wellbeing and study progress
Directors of degree programmes and their LES collaboration partners – altogether 40 professionals in teaching and learning – discussed current affairs at the Programme Forum.
AAC decides on the regulations on credit transfer
The University Academic Affairs Committee (AAC) decided on amending the rules on credit transfer at its meeting on 10 April, 2018. The aim is to enhance the equal treatment of students and to simplify the process whereby learning gained elsewhere is recognised and identified.
Charge card to ease travel expense processing
Applying for a charge card will be faster and easier from January 1, 2019 onwards. Aalto Univer-sity will start using a new Nintex/Sharepoint-based card application tool, and at the same time simplifying the charge card application and approval process.
Sustainable ideas and inspiring people presented with Aalto SCI Alumna of the Year and SCI Awards 2018
SCI Alumna 2018 Annu Nieminen is an entrepreneur with a passion to encourage companies in maximizing the positive impact on the society. SCI awardees are described as inspirational, helpful, patient, and knowledgeable persons in the community.
Digitalism Challenge course innovated solutions for practical implementation
Helsinki Family Centres, Finnish Tax Administration and Nordea were very satisfied with the applications generated during the course.
School of Business Career Services second-best in the Nordic region
Universum produces an annual careers report based on a student survey.
Lotta Timonen is the School of Electrical Engineering Service Personnel of the Year 2018
School of Electrical Engineering’s first Service Personnel of the Year 2018 award was given to Lotta Timonen.
Working at the School of Business alongside studies is independent and flexible
Initiative is needed in order to be able to succeed in the work.
Changes in accessing Ellibs e-books
Starting 3rd December, reading and downloading Ellibs e-books require Haka login with Aalto University username and password.
New Booking.aalto.fi user interface to be launched on 28 November 2018
We are publishing a new user interface for booking.aalto.fi on 28 November 2018. The user interface will be accessible from booking.aalto.fi from the launch date onwards.
Teaching Lab – A platform for designing better teaching and learning
As a part of Learning Challenge Aalto, Teaching Lab was launched at the end of November to provide Aalto teaching faculty with better resources in course and program development, and in integrating work life skills into teaching.
From GDPR compliance to accountability
Aalto’s GDPR projects have produced documentation of 205 information systems to ensure compliance with the regulation. To stay compliant, we’re extending Aalto’s Information Security Management System (ISMS) to cover whole Aalto and the information systems documented in these GDPR projects.
UNIPS - university pedagogical self-study material available
UNIPS (University pedagogical support) -project is funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture (Opetus - ja kulttuuriministeriö) and it´s one of the three divisions in the larger thematic project "Enhancing pedagogical and digital teaching and supervision skills in higher education" in Finland.