Corporate collaboration

Research collaboration creates a strong foundation for know-how and product development. New business ideas are created in study projects. Aalto's campus offers an inspiring environment and recruitment events bring companies and future talents together.

Welcome to build the future with us!

Students walking and working in the basement floor of the Harald Herlin Learning center / photo by Aalto University, Aino Huovio

The most significant benefit of our collaboration with Aalto University is the expertise it provides us.

Matti Kauhanen, Business Unit Technology Manager, ABB Oy Drives and Controls

Research knowledge and new innovations

The cooperation supports the company's innovation activities and business development.

Future talents

The cooperation facilitates the discovery of future experts and offers diverse opportunities for staff development.

Networks and special resources

The collaboration opens access to our research infrastructure and our extensive national and international network.

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Support for university development

The collaboration helps us at Aalto to develop research and education to meet the changing needs of business. It improves the quality and effectiveness of our operations as well as our access to finance.

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What can we do together?

We offer companies opportunities for collaboration in all areas of Aalto's operations, as well as possibilities for networking with researchers, teachers and our active student community. The collaboration can start with even a small project, and grow into a long-term strategic partnership. We encourage also the SMEs to become involved!

For a company, the research collaboration is most beneficial when it is fundamental, long-term and strategic. Usually, in this kind of projects the costs and productivity risks are high if the research is carried out by the company alone.

The possibilities for research collaboration extend from single research projects to long-term funding of strategic research and personnel, often including the utilization of the university’s extensive research infrastructure.

Explore our research collaboration options

Teaching cooperation offers a natural way for businesses to

get new insights and explore alternative perspectives
get in touch with students
gain visibility and develop their employer brand amongst students

The range of collaboration spans from guest lectures and real-life cases to multidisciplinary study projects and thesis assignments.

Explore our teaching collaboration options

Career Services help employers in recruiting and building their employer image amongst students. We'll help you to:

recruit a student
reach Aalto students for career development and open positions
participate in recruitment events
organise an event of your own at the campus

More information and contact details can be found here

Explore our in-service training options:

Aalto University Open University

provides single university courses and parts of degree programs for everybody who is interested in our branches of science

Aalto University Executive Education Oy

provides in-service education for executives (Aalto EE), professionals (Aalto PRO) and entrepreneurs or intrapreneurs (Aalto ENT).

Participating in our seminars and events is an excellent way to learn, network and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in your industry.

Browse our events here

Are you looking for an office space for your company, or would you like to organize an event at the campus? Maybe you are looking for an easy way to network with our experts and the innovative startup community.

Aalto Campus & Real Estate (ACRE) rents out facilities from the campus area.

Learn more about ACRE

Campus membership including access to our coworking spaces and possibility to participate activities at our innovation community A Grid, which has been developed in order to make collaboration projects easier and enhance networking.

Learn more about the innovation community A Grid

When future product developers solve challenges provided by companies, bold ideas and even crazy experiments can lead to genuinely new approaches. The collaboration between ABB and Aalto Design Factory bears fruit and brings genuine out-of-the-box thinking to ABB's product development.

Corporate collaboration

CBCT scan showing the location of the mandibular canals in the lower jaw

Finnish researchers developed a new automatized way to localise the mandibular canals

21.4.2020 News

Companies around the world use design to grow their business. The three-year research project looks for ways to speed up the transformation of small businesses to become more design-driven. The first year has already given great results.

29.1.2020 News

Ten-year contract enables long-term research collaboration. Ten projects are now under way.

6.9.2019 News

Costa Smeralda varustelulaiturissa (Kuva: Meyer Turku Oy)

Aalto University and Meyer Turku Oy have signed an agreement that will strengthen and develop multidisciplinary research and education collaboration as well as give a boost to expert co-operation.

5.2.2020 News

Corporate Relations team

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Cooperation, Studies Published: 15.9.2020

A student team studied young people’s consumption, Finnishness and work

The project carried out for the Association for Finnish Work provided the student team with a versatile learning experience.

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Cooperation, Studies Published: 8.9.2020

Students researched comprehensively the car wash business

Based on the project, S Group will continue to analyse its car wash markets.

Kauppakorkeakoulun opiskelija Markus Hirvola

Studies Published: 7.9.2020

Internship experience at Posti by School of Business student Markus Hirvola

An internship can help you see what kinds of useful skills you have already learned at school, and what you should continue studying further in the future.

Riia-Leena Wallin sitting on a chair and laughing while being filmed on camera.

Cooperation, Studies Published: 4.9.2020

Student team utilises participatory framework to develop sustainable renewal in cities

The City of Espoo was a partner in Aalto Thesis project. A team of two Master's students solved a challenge of a changing city in Espoo through their Master's theses.

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Lectures and seminars 28.9.2020 9:00 – 10:00 (recurring)

Machine Learning Coffee Seminar (MLCS)

Machine Learning Coffee Seminars are weekly seminars organized by Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI) and are held jointly by the Aalto University and the University of Helsinki.

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Lectures and seminars 29.9.2020 17:15 – 19:00 (recurring)

Internet Forum – Public lecture series online: The future of technology and Finland

Technology is changing the world more radically than ever before. Join Internet Forum public lectures to hear top experts discuss the topic on online lectures!

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