Aalto University Junior

Teachers

Aalto University Junior supports the work of teachers by offering study visits, virtual workshops, training sessions and other services to ease day-to-day work at schools. Explore our vast offering for primary and secondary schools, high schools and institutions for upper secondary vocational education and training.
Aalto-yliopisto Juniorilla viittaillaan innokkaasti vastaamaan ohjaajien kysymyksiin.
Our workshops foster curiosity and the joy of learning. Photo: Sini Kivioja

Workshops and study visits

Bring your class to visit the Otaniemi campus Junior Lab or book a virtual workshop to do in your own classroom. Junior’s workshops make use of Aalto University’s cutting-edge research as well as methods that inspire children and young people and offer a sneak peek to the world of higher education with the help of our student instructors.

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Researcher Visits

You can book an Aalto University researcher to visit your school and talk about their research in an inspiring way. The visiting researcher will organise a short science session in your class, where they introduce their research area, talk about their work as a researcher and answer the pupils’ questions.

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Kuvakollaasi kotona toteutettavista tiedetöistä, kuten muovailuvahasta, origameista, valomaalauksesta ja katapultista

Try at home

You may find try at home worksheet in Finnish and Swedish.

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Aalto-yliopisto Juniorin työpajoissa opitaan tutkimustaitoja ja innostutaan yhdessä erilaisista aiheista.
Photo: Kalle Kataila

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Olli Ikkana in Otaniemi, photo by Lasse Lecklin.
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Bioinspired colours and adaptable materials - Professor Olli Ikkala's third EU project builds on living systems

Department of Applied Physics Professor Olli Ikkala received his third Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) on 11 April 2024. The funding amounts to €2.5 million and the project will run for five years.
Olli Ikkala ja Esa Saarinen
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Olli Ikkala and Esa Saarinen found a common thread in baroque music and lecturing

Olli Ikkala will continue his research on nature-inspired materials and will find himself again as an organist after his busy research career. Esa Saarinen, on the other hand, continued to lecture the Philosophy and Systems Thinking (Filosofia ja systeemiajattelu) course to packed halls this spring. When they met, they discussed the organ and the atmosphere of the lectures.
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FITech's summer courses have been published - the application period starts now!

The application period for FITech's summer courses started today, on 4 April. There are over 100 courses available from the topics of 5G, energy storage, hydrogen economy, ICT, and wind power.
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Digivisio 2030 transforms the future of learning through opin.fi

Finnish universities have united their efforts in the Digivisio 2030 project to build the future of learning, with its first manifestation being the opin.fi website tailored to the needs of lifewide learners. The service is set to be released first as a beta version in fall 2024 and fully in spring 2025.
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