News from innovation ecosystem
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.
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.
Space 21 coordinator Jason Selvarajan encourages everyone to experiment
Get to know Jason Selvarajan, coordinator of Space 21, Aalto's new project space
The Annual Review provided an overview of the achievements in 2021
The virtual event presented the key results and achievements of the School.
Aalto Digital Creatives pre-incubator program announces an open call for creative industry projects
Deadline for applications is on 23 March 2022.
Convenient wireless charging for home use
A uniform charging field makes this new transmitter ideal for consumer devices.
How to lead and educate for the future?
Aalto's capacity building project experiments with methods, which may help us become more capable of implementing systemic changes
Corporate partners want more versatile collaboration with Aalto
Expanding collaboration and developing it in commissioned research, competitive research funding and education are at the top of the corporate partners' wish list.
Radio observations reveal the dance of two black holes
Radio observations made by Aalto University's Metsähovi Radio Observatory and Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory have revealed how two giant black holes located billions of light years away are locked into orbit around one another.
Unite! is committed to e-learning in international joint programmes
The project Joint Programmes: Embedding Virtual Exchange (JPROV) will create a framework for the development of innovative and efficient Joint Programmes with embedded online elements,
Alumnus Atte Hujanen: I have been an entrepreneur all my life
‘To succeed and enjoy being an entrepreneur, you need to enjoy unpredictable situations, reacting to them, and overcoming them. If the image of such an everyday life gets a smile on your face day after day, then entrepreneurship may be for you,’ thinks Atte Hujanen, the founder of the karaoke streaming service Singa.
Scientists test how wind turbines hold up to frozen flows in world’s largest indoor ice tank
Understanding the fundamentals of what happens when turbines meet ice could finally bring off-shore wind farms into chillier waters
Better Business – Better Society
The motto reflects the goal of the school: to develop a better society by developing better business
Aalto ranks 30th in Times Higher Education listing for young universities
The ranking lists the world’s best universities that are 50 years old or younger
Algorithm marks the spot: making brain stimulation more reliable
Method uses brain activity feedback to automate widely used manual technique
Caterina Foti: My dream is to expose people from 0- to 99-years old to the quantum world
Caterina Foti is involved in a quantum institute, a quantum online platform, a quantum exhibition, and a quantum startup that just received seed funding.
A new approach for detecting ultra-low-energy photons
Professor Jukka Pekola and Doctoral Candidate Bayan Karimi from Aalto University propose a new approach to measure the energy of single microwave photons. These low energy quanta are emitted by artificial quantum systems such as superconducting qubits. Detecting them continuously has been challenging but would be useful in quantum information processing and other quantum technologies.
KONE and Aalto University’s teaching collaboration approaches design as a method, way of thinking and competitive advantage
A key component of the collaboration is study projects, in which student teams work to solve companies’ real-life challenges.
Finland creates an educational package to make cybersecurity a civic skill across the European Union
Researchers at Aalto University are creating an educational package on cybersecurity, which will be shared with all EU countries. Finland has been awarded EUR 5 million for this project from the EU recovery instrument for a three-year period.
Space 21 - a project space for experimentation!
Space 21, a project space for the use of all Aalto community, opened its doors in spring 2022
