Protocamp
Protocamp is a summer course of the School of Electrical Engineering where students of Technology and Arts build prototypes in teams.
Study Projects
In study projects, students work on real-life cases in collaboration with companies and other organisations. For companies, the projects offer a way to connect with the experts of the future and get fresh ideas and new insights.
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With know-how gained during studies, supported by teacher supervision and guidance, student groups take on challenges varying from market research and strategic planning to product design and development. Aalto University students have a way of challenging conventional ideas and coming up with new, innovative ways of doing things.
Study projects also provide a chance to get in touch with future experts, as well as gain visibility among the soon-to-be graduates, from the fields of science, art, technology and business.
The most feasible study project topics are typically smaller and well-defined tasks, such as various analyzes and surveys, as well as smaller brainstorming and development tasks.
Summer courses
Information Technology Program (ITP) for Partners
ITP collaborates with companies and organizations with digital business challenges solved by student teams.
Digital Business Master Class
This intensive master’s-level course focuses on digital technologies as tools for building businesses.
Radical Creativity
During the business projects at the Radical Creativity summer course, students reimagine the future of their partner organisation's industry.
Study project courses beginning in the autumn term
AEP - Advanced Energy Project
In the Advanced Energy Project course, students carry out energy related projects for external companies to solve an identified business problem through the development of services, business models, technical solutions or prototypes.
Capstone: Accounting (autumn)
Capstone in Accounting is a compulsory, advanced M.Sc. degree course in Accounting that Business School students typically take on the 5th academic year. In this management consultancy course, students apply in a comprehensive manner analytical skills and accounting knowledge acquired during their studies to solve real-life assignments in their case companies.
Capstone: Business Development Project
Capstone Business Development Project is the final course for Master’s students at the Aalto University School of Business.
IDBM Industry Project - Global Team Track
Master’s students from fields of design, engineering & business form interdisciplinary teams to work on real-life product and service innovation challenges proposed by partner companies.
IDBM Capstone: Industry Project
The 'IDBM Capstone: Industry Project' programme is a joint teaching and research platform of all schools of Aalto University.
Pack-Age
Pack-Age is an innovative packaging design course uniting visual communication, design, business and engineering thinking to sustainability and project-based learning.
PDP - Product Development Project
In PDP, a multidisciplinary group of Master’s students mainly from fields of engineering, industrial design and business tackle challenges aiming to a functioning prototype.
Software Project
On the Software Project course, students develop a software system for real clients using the Scrum process framework.
Study project courses beginning in the spring term
Capstone: Accounting (spring)
In this management consultancy course, students apply in a comprehensive manner analytical skills and accounting knowledge acquired during their studies to solve real-life assignments in their case companies.
Capstone in Creative Sustainability
In this course students work in multidisciplinary teams towards finding creative solutions to real-life social and environmental challenges brought by partner companies.
Design Project in Chemical Engineering
In this course, senior master students create a preliminary plant design on a real-life topic provided by a course partner.
Designing Adaptive and Creative Organizations
If your company is interested in exploring how to redesign its processes, systems and structures to be more adaptive to changes, more innovative, and/or more entrepreneurial, and then these student projects may be of interest to you.
Digital Business Master Class (spring)
This intensive master’s-level course focuses on digital technologies as tools for building businesses.
SGT - Sustainable Global Technologies Studio Course
SGT – Sustainable Global Technologies Studio is a project-based course for Master’s and Doctoral students at Aalto University.
Strategies for Growth and Renewal
If you represent a medium or large size company (>100 employees and operating for more than 5 years) interested to get a better understanding of how your company or one of its business units can improve its innovation or renewal processes to achieve better growth, 'Strategies for Growth and Renewal' student projects might be appropriate for you.
Design for Government (external link)
Design for Government (DfG) is a practice-based course within the Aalto University’s multi-school Creative Sustainability master’s program. Its mission is to develop and demonstrate design competences in Finnish government.
On-demand courses
Art & Design Study Projects
Collaborative study project is perfect way to generate innovative and creative solutions to your organisation and business development, to get insights or create new knowledge and seek talent.
Aalto Student Satellite Program
The Aalto student satellite project brings together students to learn and collaborate on a real space project.
Customized Student Business Projects
Contact us when you need bright minds to analyse and solve your challenges. We will tailor a student project according to your needs.
Projects with NGOs (pilot)
A new project course for School of Business students in collaboration with NGOs.
Did not find a suitable course?
If you did not find a suitable study project course from the list above, please contact Aalto corporate relations team or see what the customized business project from Aalto School of Business could provide.
Corporate Relations
The corporate relations team promotes cooperation between business and Aalto University. We help companies find the right contacts in Aalto and support the development of strategic partnerships.
Examples of recent project course outcomes
Project team identified business opportunities for Finnish companies in the energy sector in Portugal
The Portuguese energy market presents both short-term and long-term opportunities across various sectors
Students explored how Deloitte could attract more female applicants to their M&A unit
Deloitte aims to develop gender balance
Aalto University students combine an open microprocessor with an AI accelerator
In the recent past, Aalto students implemented a simple processor. Now, they have further refined its structure and combined it with an AI accelerator.
Student team participated in development of Hilti’s reward and benefit system
Corporate customer liked concrete recommendations
Students helped Finavia to analyze the terminal logistics at Helsinki Airport
The unexpectedly rapid recovery of air travel has caused capacity issues
Back to the future products
The 25th anniversary gala of the PDP course took place on the 13th of May at Design Factory. Many interesting future products such as electric wooden boat, extremely precise factory crane and edible packing material were presented at the Gala.
Students investigated importance of recurring revenue streams in Alma Media's financial reporting
As a result, they produced a report on Recurring Revenue and Company Valuation
KONE and Aalto University’s teaching collaboration approaches design as a method, way of thinking and competitive advantage
A key component of the collaboration is study projects, in which student teams work to solve companies’ real-life challenges.
A group developing Ponsse’s CSR reporting excelled in the Accounting Capstone course
Various inspiring and challenging business projects were solved in the autumn 2021 course.
Want to read more about earlier study projects?
Here you can find more news about various real-life challenges Aalto students have worked on with companies and other organisations.
Corporate Relations