Career Design Lab

is a learning hub for shaping sustainable and meaningful careers

Career design is a creative approach for leading your career with meaning, experimentation, and collaboration. Creating a path that is sustainable in terms of your wellbeing and impact while finding meaningfulness is at the core of what career design aims for.

At Career Design Lab, we provide research-based, creative services and collaborate with the Aalto University community and partners. We support Aalto students and alumni in career design, collaborate with alumni and organizations, connect employers with Aalto talent and help all lifewide learners prepare for the future of work. Let’s shape a sustainable future of work – together!

This blog provide insights on how work is changing and how you can design a meaningful career path.

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Close-up of rainbow-coloured oil slick swirling on dark, dirty water surface with floating specks

Cooperation, Studies, University Published: 17.4.2026

Join a summer school on environmental contaminants, held in the French Alps

Explore environmental contaminants through expert-led lectures, hands-on workshops, and international collaboration— with selected students receiving funding for travel and accommodation.

Cooperation, Research & Art Published: 15.4.2026

Mobile work machines are electrifying rapidly — a new research environment supports the industry’s product development

The LEMMI development and testing equipment for mobile work machines supports the electrification in the field and strengthens cooperation between academic research and industry.

Poster of European Energy Excursion with coastal wind farm, path on green dyke and university logos.

Cooperation, Studies, University Published: 14.4.2026

Apply now: Unite! European Energy Excursion – Visit leading energy companies and institutions across Europe

Aalto engineering students are invited to take part in a unique international study trip through Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium from 7 to 13 June 2026.

Studies Published: 14.4.2026

EIT Jumpstarter Programme 2026

The EIT Jumpstarter is an award-winning pre-acceleration programme funded by the European Union designed to help validate innovative ideas and develop business skills to create and run innovative start-ups. The programme focuses on talents coming from countries located in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, where the pace of innovation is moderate or emerging.

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