Annual Review 2025 and annual reports
On this page, we present key figures of 2025 and the Annual Board Report and Financial Statements.
Donation impact
Our researchers and students develop, among other things, a memory disorder detector and print wall panels from yeast mass. They reach out far beyond the campus by bringing together industry players to accelerate common good and providing policymakers with science-based solutions. Entrepreneurial young people harness ideas and research results into growth companies and seek solutions to bring, for example, biomaterial experiments to industrial scale.
What does your donation enable?
To create new multidisciplinary breakthroughs and achieve scientific discoveries, we need your support.
At Aalto, our community is building the world’s smallest radar satellites, driving a revolution in sustainable fashion, developing health-promoting technologies and digital games that improve public well-being, and finding ways to feed billions more people with fewer resources.
At our Bioinnovation Center, researchers are creating sustainable packaging materials from cellulose to replace plastics, while collaborations between building geology and ceramic art are exploring how clay could one day replace concrete.
Without donations, much of this work – the research, the experimentation, and the discoveries – simply would not happen.
Lera Nikitina, a student from UkraineThe support I received has stabilised my life significantly during this extremely uncertain time. I am extremely grateful to everyone who has made the distribution of grants possible. This support has had a life-changing impact.
In addition to research results and innovations, the university’s impact is embodied in our alumni. Companies founded by Aalto graduates already employ more than 30.000 people. This number is sure to grow, as more and more of our students see entrepreneurship as an attractive career path — and as a way to build a better world.
Outside Finland, our alumni live, work, and make an impact in more than a hundred countries worldwide. Aalto has quickly become Finland’s most international university.
Donations to the university help make all of this possible.
Impact in numbers and human stories
Not the first choice, but in the end, the best possible one
This is one student's story about coming to Finland and Aalto University to study after the war began in Ukraine.
Donations make a difference
Donations have a significant impact on Ukrainian students receiving scholarships at Aalto University.
Behind success there is determination
Aalto University supports Ukraine’s university students whose studies are interrupted by the war. This is one of the student's story.
More than half of the School of Business students do part of their studies abroad
Aalto University School of Business offers its students excellent opportunities for internationalisation
The latest donation news
Donations play a significant role in the development of the School of Business
Donations to the university benefit society as a whole. For students, they create learning environments, international experiences, and career opportunities.
Wärtsilä donates EUR 200,000 to Aalto University to advance world-class engine technology research and expertise
The donation will support Aalto University’s House of Energy Transition initiative, which brings together energy research and education to accelerate the energy transition.
From ideas to impact: ‘Better forecasts need a new kind of data’
Aalto’s student innovation grant gave the company’s founders resources to develop and test their concept.