Join the Startup Experience course and build an idea that could change the world. Learn to take responsibility in a safe environment and become one with your team. Experience what it’s like to found a startup and find the first customers, without actually having to set up a company.
With the help of teachers, mentors, peers, and guest lecturers, each Startup Experience student team will create and test a business concept and a minimum viable product that meets a real customer need while working towards a more sustainable future.
Learn how to think and build like an entrepreneur to face the uncertainty of the world, and discover your own entrepreneurial style. If you’re looking for textbook education, try Google — here you’ll get your hands dirty.
Read more here: And register by 1.1.2024 (late registration until 8.1.2024) on Sisu!
Aalto Ventures Program is the entrepreneurship education program at Aalto University. We strive for sustainability through entrepreneurship. Get to know us more at and follow us on social media @aaltoventuresprogram.
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The survey is open until Sunday 24 May 2026.Students’ opportunities for language learning to expand from autumn 2026
Founded in 2025, KiePe – Network for Language Centre Pedagogy, Teaching and Research – will broaden the range of language courses available to students at universities in the Helsinki metropolitan area. The KiePe network, composed of the University of Helsinki, Aalto University, the University of the Arts Helsinki, and Hanken School of Economics, will offer their students the chance to take elective language courses at any of the network universities in the future.Students will be able register for courses via the cross-institutional studies service (RIPA) from autumn 2026. By autumn 2028, the study paths of the network universities will be harmonised to some extent, which will make cross-institutional studies even easier.
Students wishing to take language courses outside their home university can register for language courses offered by the network universities through the cross-institutional studies service and view the course offerings on the universities’ websites. More detailed information about the course offering and registration practices will be provided in August 2026.
Campus restaurants’ opening hours during summer 2026
Campus restaurants have reduced opening hours during the summer holiday season.