Aalto University - India Collaboration

Meet up with Aalto Alumni and Applicants to Aalto (New Delhi)                                                                                               ​

Apurva Ganoo, Lecturer, School of Business,​

Kit Srinivasan, Senior Manager, Global Engagement​

Visit programme

• EU Study Fairs India (Delhi and Bangalore)​

• Reception for offer holders and Alumni (Delhi and Bangalore)​

• Visits to partner universities (IISc, MIT and VIT Bangalore. SRM Univ. Chennai)​

• Visit to QS office (Bangalore)

Aalto delegates:

Raili Pönni, Director, Development, ​

Eija Kujanpää, Manager, International Relations, School of Science​

Etel Niemelä, Communications Coordinator, Student Marketing​

Kit Srinivasan, Senior Manager, Global Engagement​

World Circular Economy Forum in India  WCEF (Organizer-SITRA)

Themes of interests for Aalto Academics (participation – TBC)​

- Sustainable Entrepreneurship 

- Circular Textiles/Textiles as a broader theme 

- Sustainable polymers/ chemical recycling  and ​

- Energy (Conversion and storage, other areas)

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Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design & Technology Bangalore​

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IIT Bombay​

2​

National Institute of Design NID Ahmedabad​

9​

IIT Indore​

3​

National Institute of Fashion Technology NIFT Delhi​

10​

IIT Guwahati​

4​

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad IIMA​

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IIT BHU Varanasi​

5​

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore IIMB​

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IIT Madras​

6​

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta IIMC​

13​

IIT Madras - PhD Exchange (International Immersion Experience IIE) ​

7​

Amrita University​

MoU with 23 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)​

​The MoU involves all 11 Finnish Technical Universities and applies to all Aalto Schools for general collaboration across all fields. It is not legally or financially binding, but activities involving financial or human resources, such as student exchanges, require specific agreements between institutions. The MoU serves as a 'door opener' for formalizing partnerships and participation in national funding schemes. A separate MoU with any of the IITs is not required for any activity. The MoU was signed in 2014, renewed in 2021 and expires in 2026. This will be renewed for 2027-2032. Aalto and IIT Bombay are the coordinators for the MoU and the network of IITs and Finnish Universities.​

MoU with Indian Institute of Science (IISc)​

​The MoU involves all 10 Finnish Technical Universities (excluding University of Eastern Finland) and applies to all Aalto Schools for general collaboration across all fields. It is not legally or financially binding, but activities involving financial or human resources, such as student exchanges, require specific agreements between institutions. The MoU serves as a 'door opener' for formalizing partnerships and participation in national funding schemes. The MoU was signed in 2024 valid until 2029. Aalto and IISc are the coordinators for the MoU. ​

MoU with Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) ​

​Applicable for all the four TECH schools of Aalto. This MoU will be the first step for making student exchange or other agreements with MAHE Institutions across India. The MoU was signed in 2026 and valid until 2031.​

CATEGORY​

2023​

2024​

2025​

Alumni Events​

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Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune and Delhi​

Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai & Delhi​

Bilateral/Policy level Events​

• Finland-India Road Show​

• Bangalore Tech Summit​

• Finland – India 75th Diplomatic Anniversary (Finnish Embassy, Delhi)​

• Nordic event on BEST Battery (Nordic Embassies, Delhi)​

• Women in Leadership (Helsinki Partners, AEE, Mumbai)​

• GIDS –Great International Developers Summit​

• BTS – Bengaluru Tech Summit​

EU – India Events​

EU Delegation to India RDI Days (Bangalore)​

EU Delegation to India RDI Days (Delhi)​

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Delegation Visits/​

Benchmarking​

• AVP – Entrepreneurship Eco System ​

• CHEM – Partnerships (Eero Kontturi, Marjatta Louhi Kultanen)​

• Petri Suomala​

• Kirsi Kettula ​

(Education, Design education, Radical Creativity, Exhibitions)​

• Jouko Lampinen & IR Managers​

• Tuomas Auvinen​

(Partnerships for ARTS, SCI)​

• Alumni operations (Ville Hakulinen)​

• Entrepreneurship eco system (Apurva Ganoo, BIZ)​

Scientific symposiums/Conf.​

(Co/Jointly organized with Aalto PIs)​

CHEM – IIT Kanpur (Regenerative Medicine)​

• CHEM – IIT Kanpur & IIT Guwahati (Regenerative Med.), IITB (Bio materials)​

• SCI – IITB (Neuroscience, also in 2022 )​

• AI for IoT conference (FICORE – Vellore Institute of Technology)​

• AVP – IITM – Accenture Solve the SDGs Hackathon​

• ELEC – IITs Indore, Guwahati and BHU Joint Workshop on Information, Communications & Data Processing Technologies for Response Management in Natural Disasters​

• SCI – IITB (NBE visits, lectures and tutoring at IITB)​

Student Recruitment Fairs​

Bangalore and Delhi​

Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad & Mumbai ​

Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad & Mumbai​

Paavo Alku​

APOS - Aalto speech technology post doc programme for doctoral graduates of IIIT/IIT​

Bayya Yegnanarayana - IIIT Hyderabad​

 Anil Kumar Vuppala - IIIT Hyderabad ​

Sreenivasa Rao - IIT Kharagpur ​

Juho Rousu​

AI Technologies for Computational Systems Biomedicine​

Sahely Badra - IIT Palakkad ​

Karthik Raman - IITM ​

Riku Jäntti​

Ultra-low power and sustainable wireless communications​

Swades De - IIT Delhi ​

Visa Koivunen​

Learning and Online Optimization Techniques for Large Scale Multiantenna System and RIS enabled Integrated Sensing and Communications​

Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri - Indian Institute of Science IISc ​

Olav Tirkkonen   ​

Environment Optimization for 6G by Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces​

Manav R. Bhatnagar - IIT Delhi ​

Sandip Bankar/ ​Eero Kontturi​

Using microbial intracellular machineries to construct novel biomaterials (MicroMachine)​

Vikas Kumar Dubey &  Prodyut Dhar - IIT BHU ​

Vibhore K. Rastogi - IIT Roorkee ​

Rintu Banergee and  Ramkrishna Sen - IIT Kharagpur​

Jukka Seppälä​

Complementary biomaterials research approach- Towards high value-added biomaterials​

Ashok Kumar - IIT Kanpur ​

Risto Ilmoniemi​

Characterizing the variability in the output of the human motor cortex​

Nivethida Thirugnanasambandam - IIT Bombay​

Manohar Kumar​

Quantum Lego for Topological Computing​

Sudhansu S. Mandal - IIT Kharagpur ​

Mikko Möttönen​

Speedup of quantum computations by many-qubit logic​

Rajamani Vijayaraghavan - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)​

Teemu Leinonen/ ​

Nitin Sawhney​

Promoting Critical, Playful and Inclusive Algorithmic Literacy and Digital Citizenship among Young Learners/Living Labs to foster Inclusive Design of Equitable Technological Futures​

Vijay Chandru - Indian Institute of Science IISc ​

Umakant Soini - Artpark, India ​

Christian Flindt​

Quantum Thermodynamics for Quantum Engineering​

Archak Purkayastha -IIIT Hyderabad Sumit Kumar Jana - IIIT Hyderabad, Dr. Madhumita Saha, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences​

Petri Mähönen/​

Tanesh Kumar​

Sustainable Security Solutions for 6G Communication Networks​

Abhishek Gupta - IIT Kanpur​

Nitin Auluck – IIT Ropar​

Caterina Soldano​

Towards low-cost and flexible organic electrochromic devices​

Prakash Chandra Mondal, IIT Kanpur​

Hossain Baniasadi/​

Jukka Niskanen​

Elevating Biomaterials Research: A Synergistic Approach for High-Impact Biomedical Applications​

Ashok Kumar - IIT Kanpur​

S.No        ​

PI​

Funding /Country​

Title of project​

Indian Partner​

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Jukka Seppälä​

Hossain Baniasadi            
Jukka Niskanen​

SPARC/India                                    

Development of 3D printable bone and nerve guiding drug-eluting composite implants for vertebral/spine trauma in infection/tuberculosis and cancer” (Close to 100K Euros, 2019-21)​

Ashok Kumar - IIT Kanpur ​

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Risto Ilmoniemi​

SPARC/India​

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Concurrent Brain Stimulation and Imaging to Unravel Functional Brain Networks in Parkinson’s Disease (86K Euros, 2024-26)​

Nivethida Thirugnanasambandam,  IIT Bombay   ​

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3​

Riku Jäntti ​

Alexis Dowhuszko​

TFK Mobility/Finland                                 

Information, communications and data processing technologies for response management in case of natural disasters (72k EUR,2024-26 )​

IITs Indore, Guwahati and BHU Varanasi​

4​

Apurva Ganoo​

TFK Mobility/Finland​

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Educational Development on Cultural Entrepreneurship through Collaboration between Aalto and IIMB (38K Euros, 2024-26)​

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Indian Institute of Management Bangalore IIMB​

5*​

Ilkka Keppo​

Horizon EU​

I AM COMPACT​

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad IIMA​

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6*​

Marko Keskinen​

Horizon EU​

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CroWD​

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South Asian University​

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Teemu Leinonen​

ARTPARK​

Contract funding for 1 PhD student for 1 year research (82K Euros, 2022-23)​

Umakant Soini - Artpark, India ​