Aalto University Summer School

Aalto University Summer School

Experience arts, business and technology all at one campus. Come learn with us.

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Course highlights summer 2022

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Digital Business Master Class (Spring 2022)

DBMC is a challenge-based course with a focus on digital technologies as tools for building businesses. During the intensive course, students work in international teams to plan digital solutions for real business cases from partnering companies.

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Scale-Up Leadership

Scale-Up Leadership is a master's level challenge-based course with a focus on leadership challenges and cultural change. During the course students and practitioners from the industry work together in international teams to solve challenges that come with the growth stage of an organisation.

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Nordic Biomaterials with CHEMARTS

The use of materials today is not sustainable for the environment. Learn how to create new concepts for sustainable material development by combining design, technology and natural materials science

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Future of Work (open online)

We are amid a revolution of work, which started already long before the pandemic. Making sense of the future of work can feel tricky in the middle of a constant information overflow. This course is supported with academic research and references packaged in a way that is easy to access. In this course, we will look at how the roles of the individual, organisations and society have changed and how it affects how we work today and in the future.

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The best way to spend a summer

Aalto University Summer School offers high-quality multidisciplinary academic courses and programs for the summer teaching period. We focus on challenge-based learning and want our students to experience the Finnish summer and gain international networks while studying topics such as digital business, sustainability, entrepreneurship, leadership or biomaterial science. 

The courses and programs are organised at Aalto University's Otaniemi campus, located within a 10-minute metro ride from Helsinki. Aalto University Summer School and the Otaniemi campus have something for everyone.

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Chisako Ogiwara Digital Business Master Class alumna from Aalto University Summer School standing outside a restaurant at a street with some lush and green mountains in the background. She is wearing a short-sleeved white blouse and is smiling towards the camera.

'The Digital Business Master Class helped my business to take the leap into digital'

Chisako Ogiwara from Tokyo attended the Digital Business Master Class by Aalto University Summer School this summer.

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Open online course Finland Works alumnus: ‘The course is a great way to show initiative for future employers’

Matthew Clarkson wanted to learn more about working life in Finland through the open online course Finland Works.

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Student in a white lab coat and blue plastic gloves photographed from the back while experimenting in the CHEMARTS lab smashing green pine needles into a white mortar while looking at recipes from the CHEMARTS cookbook.

Nordic Biomaterials with CHEMARTS – a crucial course for future-changers

The Aalto University Summer School course Nordic Biomaterials in collaboration with CHEMARTS gathered students from Sweden, the USA, Germany, Norway and Belgium for a summer course on campus for the first time since the pandemic.

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Finland Works open online course introduces Finnish working life and career building

Aalto University launches a new open online course on Finnish working life.

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Future of Work open online course launches

Aalto University launches new open online course on the changing landscape of work.

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Digital Business Master Class – exactly the course that is needed to keep up with today's business landscape

Shane McMahon attended the DBMC in the summer of 2021 and was particularly happy about working with environmental solutions during the course company project.

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Collaboration

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Custom programs and study visits

Aalto University Summer School helps you build custom programs for your students visiting Aalto University. Together we can design courses and programs that best fit your students' needs. Aalto University has a lot to offer during the summer semester.

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Meet the team

The Aalto University Summer School team is here to help both students and faculty in building memorable academic experiences on Otaniemi campus.

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Learn more about the Otaniemi campus and Finland

Experience the Finnish summer with Aalto University Summer School

Fun social program is a key part of the Aalto University Summer School experience.

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Campus

Aalto University's campus in Otaniemi is the home of an innovative community. Explore the campus virtually at virtualtour.aalto.fi.

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Students discussing around a laptop on an outside terrace during a summer course at Aalto University Summer School.
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Why is human interaction and lifewide learning so important in the changing working landscape?

To keep up with the fast-changing working landscape we need to constantly develop ourselves and learn new things.
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‘The work-life balance in Finland is amazing’

Bhavya Omkarappa shared her story of Finnish work-life balance as part of the Finland Works open online course.
Chisako Ogiwara Digital Business Master Class alumna from Aalto University Summer School standing outside a restaurant at a street with some lush and green mountains in the background. She is wearing a short-sleeved white blouse and is smiling towards the camera.
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'The Digital Business Master Class helped my business to take the leap into digital'

Chisako Ogiwara from Tokyo attended the Digital Business Master Class by Aalto University Summer School this summer.
ITP brings together students from various fields of study to solve digital business challenges of ITP business partners. Photo: Petri Anttila
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ITP 2021 was successfully completed with 17 projects and creative solutions to business challenges

Information Technology Program (ITP) was organized for the 26th time this year. Multidisciplinary and international student teams successfully completed altogether 17 business projects.
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