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.
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
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
Aalto University Junior brings lessons on saving and investing to schools with the support of OP Uusimaa
With the support of donations from OP Uusimaa, Aalto University Junior has developed the Juniorpörssi learning platform, which is used in Invest in Your Future workshops delivered to lower secondary and upper secondary schools. The activities have now also been expanded to include Money Moments workshops organised in primary schools.
Significant donation to boost pavement engineering research and education
Companies and associations in the field have donated €400,000 to the School of Engineering.
‘Our careers have been rewarding, and we want to help young people move forward’
After long careers abroad, Erkki and Kaija Rautiainen wanted to support the teaching and research in textile design and industrial engineering and management with a new fund.