Fibre technologies revolutionising the textile industry win the European Commission's Regiostars Awards
VTT and Aalto University’s TeKiDe project won the category Achieving sustainability through low carbon emissions.
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Current
Science, technology, art and business collide during the annual Aalto Festival
Starting on 8 May, Aalto University showcases talent in seminars, parties, lectures and exhibitions during Aalto Festival 2019.
DNA folds into a smart drug carrier
DNA nanostructures can be programmed to function as pH-responsive cargo carriers, paving the way towards functional drug-delivery vehicles.
Astronomers capture first image of a black hole
Aalto University contributed to paradigm-shifting observations of the gargantuan black hole at the heart of distant galaxy Messier 87
Valuable waste
Waste incineration by-products can contain a great deal of valuable and heavy metals. These metals should not be wasted.
Aalto Explorer wants to make everyone an ocean explorer
Originating from a course project, Aalto Explorer will continue its underwater adventure through crowdfunding. The aim is to send a remote controlled underwater vehicle to the Baltic Sea in the summer.
A culture of low hierarchies and high trust is a good platform for innovation
According to a European study, universities play a central role in the networks for generating new knowledge and skills.Explore Aalto University
Schools, departments and units
Scientific research and artistic activities are carried out at six schools and their departments and units.
Open University course list
Research and Art
At Aalto University, we create conditions for innovations, sustainable economic growth, employment and wellbeing. Our unique combinations of fields enables us to solve grand societal problems.
Events
Health & Behavior Data Symposium
From crowds back to individuals: the new era of data collection for health and human behaviorExcellence brings competitiveness – Doctoral career paths
The event will advance Finland’s long-term competitiveness by opening career paths for doctoral students, and by bringing together Aalto University’s top academic experts and companies and organizations searching for competence.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE DAYS 2019: Making Use of Sustainability Science
The thematic focus is on sustainable production and consumption, which is the SDG #12, where Finland’s performance needs to be considerably improved.
Visualizing Knowledge 2019
Visualizing Knowledge brings together a diverse group of practitioners to discuss data visualization from multiple perspectives. This year’s event is centered around the symbiosis between natural sciences, information design and visual narratives with the key concept of senses – from human senses to machine sensors.
Lively and thriving
Aalto University's main campus in Otaniemi is a renewable and living environment for research, art, learning, entrepreneurship and housing. The campus area inspires to collaborate, try out new ideas and innovate together.
Give for the future
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Wastewater nutrients converted into clean fertiliser
A promising water technology invention combats climate change and helps waterway conservation.
Forget about cords and plugs, electric cars will be charged wirelessly: energy solutions for the future are developed in Otaniemi
Smart Otaniemi tests new ideas for a better energy future.
People at Aalto University
Our community consists of exceptional individuals, here are some of their stories.
Minttumeri Hirsimaa
The topic of our course task is humanity. On this art course, I ended up making a two-metre wooden statue using a chain saw.
Mayya Vetchinnikova & Slava Vetchinnikov
Dad’s team built a battery-powered light lifter for Konecranes that can very quickly and handily be ordered to lift all kinds of heavy objects by pushing a button on your mobile. I’m really proud of what my father and his friends have accomplished.
Manuel Fonseca Martinez
A Space feels like an embassy of art & design in Otaniemi. We wanted to turn this space in an old shopping mall into a meeting point of design, business and engineering.