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Explore Aalto University’s campus from anywhere in the world! Our digital guides, an Aalto University student and an assistant professor, introduce you to our learning facilities, laboratories, workshops, service spots and outdoor spaces. The tour can be experienced on desktop, mobile or VR headset.

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Information on Otaniemi campus

How to build a sustainable campus? What's life on campus like? Swipe to get a different view on campus.

    Artistic vision image of Otaniemi in 2030

    Future campus

    Together with the City of Espoo, an environment that supports interaction is being built in Otaniemi for research, innovations, learning and the arts. The goal of campus development is to mix valuable history and new ways of planning. 

    From campus to a lively neighbourhood

     

    Aerial view, Archive photo in black and white of the Otaniemi campus in 1966

    “Ave Alma Mater, morituri te salutant”

    In 1949, Aino and Alvar Aalto's architecture firm's proposal won the Otaniemi area plan design competition. Since then, the campus has become the first hub of world class research, a pioneer of modern architecture, the stage for the CSCE and the home of Finland’s first satellite. 

    Travel back in time on campus

    A woman stands on a stage at Slush in 2019

    Startup campus

    70-100 are founded in our ecosystem every year. More than half of companies founded in Finnish universities come from Aalto. Our energetic community consists of both student-led and university-run entrepreneurial activities. 

    Read more about Aalto’s innovation ecosystem

    Aerial view in winter of Väre and School of Business buildings during contruction, solar panels in view

    2069 solar panels and 100 geothermal wells

    The key environmental impacts of the campus are related to energy consumption and transport.  We have decreased our annual carbon dioxide emission of real estates' energy use by 40% since 2012. The aim is to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030. 

    Read more about our low-carbon campus

     

    Dipoli from above in the autumn, trees with yellow leaves surround Dipoli on a sunny day

    Functional, radical and modern 

    A campus that transforms with its community, boasts a wonderful mix of new and old - Otaniemi is a treasure trove filled with Finnish architectural gems.  

    Read more about the architecture on campus

     

    In the centre of the image is LUMEN, a sculpture by Kirsi Kaulanen, in Väre building during daytime

    One percent for art 

    Aalto University applies the one per cent art principle in its building projects, where approximately one per cent of a building project's allocation is allocated to art purchases.   

    Dive into the public art on campus 

     

    Aerial view of the campus in summer, Undergraduate Centre, Learning Centre, Väre, A Bloc and School of Business in view on a sunny day. Grass and trees are vibrant and green.

    Protected linden alleys from mansion-era 

    Planted in the 19th century, the linden alleys that once guided visitors to the main buildings of the Hagalund and Otnäs manors are the most popular filming locations on the Otaniemi campus. 

    What is a green and urban campus?

     

    Services on Otaniemi campus

    A large part of Otaniemi's commercial services are located in shopping centre A Bloc and A Blanc, but there are restaurants and cafes in multiple other locations on campus as well.

    Studying at the Aalto campus

    Aalto's main campus is an ideal environment for living, studying and leisure. Find out what our beautiful Otaniemi campus has to offer to its student community.

    What's it like studying on our campus?
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    Coworking spaces – Aalto Campus Membership

    With the Aalto Campus Membership, your company can join the Aalto community through coworking spaces located on the Otaniemi campus and built around the university's interdisciplinary themes.

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    Coworking-tila Health, Otakaari 3

    Book a venue for your event at the Aalto University campus

    Aalto University offers versatile and high-quality facilities for different kinds of events. More than 100 spaces are available and they are located on the Otaniemi campus.

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    Dipoli events

    Find Aalto University Schools on campus

    Guided tour of Aalto University campus

    Book our student guide to take you around the campus and learn more about Aalto University as well as the architecture and development of the campus.

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    Aalto-yliopisto kampus campus Otaniemi Kuva: Mikko Raskinen

    News about campus

    Illustration image of an early autumn day, depicting Otakaari 2B from the opposite side of Tietotie. Some leaves are on the ground, there are people walking on campus, undistinguishable faces.
    Campus, University Published:

    Suggest a new name for Otakaari 2B building

    Send your proposal latest by 14 June!
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    Energy saved significantly - the community's actions have produced results in Aalto

    Aalto University has reached the energy efficiency goal of its facilities.
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    New rest facilities for the outdoor areas of the Undergraduate Centre

    The outdoor furniture of the campus will be supplemented later during spring and summer.
    Restaurant Kot
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    Fast food restaurant Kot. opened in the shopping centre A Bloc

    Kot.Otaniemi opened on the first floor of shopping centre A Bloc, right next to the entrance to the metro station.

    University events

     A nanostructured material changing the phase of transmitted light.
    Public defences

    Public defence in Engineering Physics, M.Sc. Somendu Maurya

    Nanostructured materials for control of optical properties
    Aalto-yliopisto / tohtoreiden hatut
    Public defences

    Public defence in Bioproduct Technology, M.Sc. (Tech.) Estefania Isaza Ferro

    The title of the doctoral thesis is: Catalyzed and non-catalyzed hypochlorous acid bleaching of kraft pulps
    Pizza Brown Bag Seminar
    Lectures and seminars

    PHYS brown bag seminar: "Physics-Informed Neural Networks with NVIDIA Modulus"

    Join us for science and pizza in the Nanotalo lobby.
    Public defences

    Public defence in Biomedical Engineering, M.Sc. Mooud Amirkavei

    Title of the doctoral thesis: Unravelling the effects of hormetic heat shock as a treatment for age-related macular degeneration
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