VIS (Vacuum Insulation System) - An Aalto University commercialization project funded by Business Finland
VIS (Vacuum Insulation System) is a new technology based on the idea of creating a vacuum inside a wooden construction element with the goal of achieving superinsulation and a long life cycle while using inexpensive materials. By lowering the pressure inside the element, we are able to utilize a technique called “vacuum drying” which ensures that the element will stay dry and healthy even in warm and moist conditions. These properties make VIS a perfect construction solution for demanding environments, such as indoor farming, where many insulation materials struggle. The goal of this project is to create the most energy and cost efficient indoor farming solution in the world called VIS Plant Factory.
Sustainable Development Goals innovation challenge
Aalto University arranged a challenge to find new digital solutions to support implementing and reporting SDGs.
1.5 Degree Lifestyles
1.5 Degree Lifestyles is a case study about opportunities and suggested pathways for household level carbon footprint reductions to slow global warming to 1.5 degrees, as targeted by the Paris Agreement of the United Nations.
Circular economy
Circular economy keeps materials in use longer using strategies like reuse, remanufacture, recycling, and replacing ownership with rentals.
Accessible Aalto
Aalto University strives towards being an accessible, safe and healthy university where research, teaching and services are accessible for all.
Innovation for sustainability
Innovating new sustainable products, services, business models and forms of consumption can help tackle global challenges.
Sustainability transitions
Our research looks at several dimensions of the transition toward sustainability societies.
SDGs at Aalto University
Aalto University is the first Finnish university to sign universities' global Sustainable Development Goals Accord.
Aalto is committed to SDG´s
Aalto is the first Finnish university to sign universities´ global Sustainable Development Goals Accord. We are committed in implementing the SDGs in our activities.
Bio2Future course "Novel carbohydrate-based materials from microbes"
This course will be organized for summer 2023. It is target.
ed to postgraduate students, post-doctoral researchers and participants from industry with interest in polysaccharide-based biomaterials and products.
Bio2Future course "Wood construction in climate change mitigation"
EIT Climate-KIC PhD Catapult course will be held from 26th August to 6th September, 2019 in Aalto University, Espoo (Finland) and at Chalmers University, Gothenburg (Sweden). It will comprise a series of inspiring lectures from leading academics and experts in the field of building with wood, together with workshops, technical training sessions and challenge-based group activities.
Sustainable 鶹ý
The key environmental impacts of the 鶹ý are related to energy consumption, transport and recycling. A sustainable and carbon neutral 鶹ý is at the core of the 鶹ý strategy.
Sustainability reports
Science, technology and arts play an important role in solving global sustainability problems. Aalto University’s strength is its strong multidisciplinary approach to humanity’s greatest challenges, such as environmental crises.
