The Aalto Co-Educator Team

Aalto’s cross-disciplinary, sustainability-focused minor, ‘Sustainable Use of Natural Resources’ is a culmination of over a year of planning and creative collaboration among faculty.

Aalto equips faculty with strategies to integrate sustainability into programmes, courses and individual competence development.

Aalto University's Meeri Karvinen successfully defends her doctoral dissertation, February 2024.

As industries increasingly focus on sustainability, the demand for sustainability expertise is growing. But what specific skills do employers seek in sustainability experts?

Learn more about solutions for sustainability and teamwork competencies and their integration into courses and curricula. 

The Aalto Co-Educator team supports teachers to integrate solutions for sustainability into programmes and courses via a lens of radical creativity and entrepreneurial mindset.

Integrate an entrepreneurial mindset into your course and curricula with competencies drafted by the Aalto Co-Educator team.

Thinking about developing a minor? Check these key insights gathered from participants during the development of the new Aalto-wide sustainability minor, 'Luonnonvarojen kestävä käyttö/ Sustainable Use of Natural Resources.'

The Aalto Co-Educator (ACE) team happily collaborates with teachers and programme directors to integrate the cross-cutting themes into courses and curricula.

Responding to the challenges of the future, such as the sustainability crisis, requires the graduate to have knowledge of sustainability challenges, multidisciplinary problem solving skills, and the ability to apply their own in-depth knowledge of the discipline to solving these challenges.

What is co-teaching? University teacher Meri Kuikka and postdoc researcher Tuomo Eloranta have been teaching together for years at Aalto and can give us invaluable and practical insights into what co-teaching means in practice.

Riikka Evans discusses integrating sustainability into teaching with Professor Matti Kuittinen from the department of Architecture at Aalto University. Matti also develops policies at the Ministry of the Environment. 

What is inclusion in the context of higher education? What kind of feedback do we get from our students? And what is the teacher's responsibility? Why is it important to foster inclusive learning culture? It's all about interaction. Pirjo Kääriäinen works as a professor at Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (ARTS) and collaborates closely with the School of Chemical Engineering (CHEM). Since 2011 she has been facilitating interdisciplinary CHEMARTS collaboration together with professor Tapani Vuorinen.

Johannes Kaira works as a teacher at the Aalto Ventures Programme which is the entrepreneurship education program at Aalto University, where students in multidisciplinary teams work on hands-on exercises. We discussed with Johannes about teamwork and what it requires as a method from students and teachers. We talked about trust, communication skills and flexibility and how they contribute to a well-functioning team.