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Aalto University and its partners organise hundreds of events every year, open to alumni, partners and the general public. You can also find the exhibitions below, after the events.

Event highlights

Orange Aalto University poster for Next Physics Brown Bag Seminar with blurred speaker portrait and event details.
Lectures and seminars
Entrance to the rock engineering laboratory.
Lectures and seminars

GeoCorner

Featuring presentations of master's theses from the Master's Programme in Geoengineering.
Cologne winefestival
Networking

Aalto alumni get-together in Cologne

Alumni in Cologne meet in Kölner Weinwoche
Anniversary Class Reunion 21.8.2026
Networking

School of Business Anniversary Class Reunion 21.8.2026

For the first time, we invite to a joint class reunion everyone who started their studies at the School of Business 10, 20, or 30 years ago!

10.6. 13:15-14:15 Maarintie 8, Otaniemi
ELLIS Distinguished Lecture: Bernhard Schölkopf

10.6. 16:30-17:30 online & Micronova, Otaniemi
Aalto Quantum Physics seminar: Protecting and interconnecting superconducting qubits

10.6. 17:30-19 Art & History Museum, Brussels, Belgium
The Pathfinders — Overcoming Circular Economy Bottlenecks exhibition opening for alumni and friends in the New European Bauhaus Festival 9.-13.6.
Exhibition open 9. - 12.6. 10-18

10.6. 18-21 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 
"Work in Finland - Discover your future in Finland" event

11.6. 10-11 Kide, Konemiehentie 1, Otaniemi
Physics Research Seminar: Rethinking Antibiofilm Surfaces: From Nanotopography to Liquid-Like Coatings 

11.6. 13:15-16:30 online & Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
Honorary doctors' talks - Beyond borders

11. - 17.6. Otakaari 1, Otaniemi
Department of Mathematics and System Analysis Talks:
11.6. 16:15 Integrating Schrödinger Half-Bridges
15.- 17.6. 14:15 Algebra, Geometry and Combinatorics Seminars: Moduli of $P$-critical connections via moment maps and analytic GIT
30.6. 10:15 Jules Martel (Cergy Paris University)

12.6. 12-13 Nanotalo building, Otaniemi
PHYS Brown Bag Seminar: Optomechanics with polaritons in organic (inorganic) microcavities

12.6. Otaniemi
Public Defences e.g: engineering physics, electronics, chemistry and materials science, building technology, mechanical engineering, marketing, architecture, landscape and urban studies, mathematics and statistics, biotechnology, entrepreneurship, design

12.6. 14-15 Online & Rakentajanaukio 4, Otaniemi
GeoCorner - master's theses from the Master's Programme in Geoengineering

13.6. 14-17 Winery Tobia Rickes, Neumarkt, Cologne, Germany
Aalto alumni get-together in Kölner Weinwoche

13-14.6. 18-21 Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51, Helsinki
Ääniaalto X - Smooth Alienation New Media art festival

15. - 29.6. Otaniemi
Public Defences e.g: design, set and costum design, international business, electrical power and energy engineering, visual communication

15.6. - 26.6. Marsio, Otakaari 2, Otaniemi
From Fragments / Sirpaleista exhibition
15.6. 16-19 Opening ceremony 

15.6. 18-21 Sao Paulo, Brazil 
"Work in Finland - Discover your future in Finland" event
 

Exhibitions

Poster

Näyttely26

Aalto Fashion and Textile graduate exhibition at the Bio Rex Outer Foyer at Lasipalatsi

Events
YUIMA NAKAZATO, GLACIER, March 2025, photographed in Hailuoto.

Tomorrow's wardrobe & fashion futuring

We need a fashion futuring approach and a new mindset—how we design and manufacture, and how we understand fashion—and this seminar aims to offer that.

Events
Keuhkot_Lungs_installation at LUX Helsinki

Lungs of the City: an exhibition on the carbon cycles of urban green

The exhibition in Think Corner, presents the special characteristics of the carbon cycles of urban green, and also shares tips for home gardeners.

Events
Poster for “From Fragments” exhibition with broken floral plate and beaded LOVE bracelet on pastel background

From Fragments / Sirpaleista exhibition

Created in collaboration with GAYY, Aalto CHAIR and Starting Point of Wellbeing, the exhibition brings together artists, collaborators, and community to reflect on the pieces that shape who we are.

Events
Designs for a Cooler Planet

Research becomes real-world solutions in autumn exhibition – Designs for a Cooler Planet showcases work by researchers and students

Aalto University’s largest annual exhibition, Designs for a Cooler Planet, will point the way to the future this autumn. It will feature more than 20 practical solutions, experiments and ideas from researchers and students.

News
Renata Jakowleff «Blue» 2017, 190 x 160 x 40 cm, glass and steel, assembled Photo: Mikko Raskinen

Public art collections at Aalto University

The aim of public art across Aalto is to create a vibrant environment for experiencing the world through various perspectives and for embracing imagination, intuition, and exploration.

Research & Art
Aalto betaspace, an exhibition venue for students at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture / photo by Julia Weckman.

Aalto galleries and exhibition venues

How can we make space for unexpected ways of looking at the world? Galleries and exhibition venues are co-produced spaces for action, bringing together the knowledge, content, vision, and passion of different agents.

Research & Art
Wood and Clay course exhibition organised by Nathalie Lautenbacher, Väre Main Lobby, March 2019

Väre Exhibitions

Väre Exhibitions, School of Art, Architecture and Design

Research & Art

See more exhibitions online

Visitors at an exhibition exploring sustainable materials. Displays include furniture, small plants, and design elements.

Designs for a Cooler Planet 2025 exhibition

Aalto University’s biggest annual exhibition presents visionary cross-disciplinary work. Come explore prototypes, experiments and solutions.

Events
Colourful abstract graphics for Designs for a Cooler Planet 2023 visual identity.

Designs for a Cooler Planet 2023 – Exhibitions

What don't we see even though we should – or could? Explore the exhibitions of Designs for a Cooler Planet 2023 to discover what Aalto students and researchers should be made visible.

Designs for a Cooler Planet
Image from remote site: virtualexhibitions.aalto.fi

DIALOGUES Creating New Textile Futures | Aalto Virtual Exhibitions (external link)

DIALOGUES – Creating New Textile Futures by AaltoTEXTILES

Life 1.5 in black font and Designs for a Cooler Planet logo on a white, fragmented background.

Life 1.5 – an exhibition of planet-friendly materials, fashion and food

Designs for a Cooler Planet is a five-week-long festival celebrating experiments in planet-friendly materials, fashion, and food.

Events
Near futures, exhibition tribute to the academic year 2019–2020 graduates

Near futures – online exhibition

Near futures, exhibition tribute to the academic year 2019–2020 graduates

Events
Tienraivaaja Breaking Ground näyttelyn mainos

Breaking ground – 8 ways research shaped our world

Breaking Ground is an exhibition which highlight the interconnected histories of long term and fundamental research and their impact on society

Events
Creativity in Action exhibition graphics by Emery Norton

Exhibition in honour of Aalto's 10-year anniversary highlights student impact over the decades

‘Creativity in Action: The Spirit of Student Life’ exhibition opens at the Dipoli Gallery and online on 27 August.

News
Re-imagining the Past Vol. 2. Photos: Kitty Norros

Re-imagining the Past exhibition Vol. 2 online

The stories and images from the exhibition celebrating Aalto 10 are now available for online exploration.

Events

Väitöksiä

Students walking on the Aalto campus in the spring. Photo by Aalto University
Other

A! Walk

A! Walks is a summer course centered around walking-based learning, exploring Otaniemi campus and its surrounding urban–natural spaces. Rather than standalone lectures or experiments, the program is designed as a curated sequence of sensory, interdisciplinary walks, guiding participants toward experiences in coexistence, awareness, action, and futures. If successful, A! Walks may be continued during the regular semester.
Students walking on the Aalto campus in the spring. Photo by Aalto University
Other

A! Walk

A! Walks is a summer course centered around walking-based learning, exploring Otaniemi campus and its surrounding urban–natural spaces. Rather than standalone lectures or experiments, the program is designed as a curated sequence of sensory, interdisciplinary walks, guiding participants toward experiences in coexistence, awareness, action, and futures. If successful, A! Walks may be continued during the regular semester.
Mobile blue cart with tilted solar panel outside a glass-walled building on a brick courtyard
Public defences

Public defence, Design, MA Goeun Park

Materialising Energy Transition through Participatory Design Interventions in Schools
Orange Aalto University poster for Next Physics Brown Bag Seminar with blurred speaker portrait and event details.
Lectures and seminars
Campus maps, addresses and opening hours in Otaniemi
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