Thank you for your continuous support to Aalto University!

I bid you great thanks for all that you have made possible at Aalto University and beyond. I warmly invite you to peruse the following pages and enjoy the content. You will find student growth stories, greetings from your fellow donors, reports on large-scale projects, and more. As an Aalto University donor, you have made things like this happen. I am very grateful to you.

To support our fundraising efforts, we have established a Fundraising Advisory Board. I am happy to announce that Risto Siilasmaa (Chair), Nathalie Ahlström, Sari Baldauf, Kyunghyun Cho, Antti Herlin and Miki Kuusi have each accepted the invitation to join the board.

Government funding for universities in Finland is less secure and more volatile than it used to be. At the same time, Finland needs more educated workforce as well as high-quality research and innovation capacity to stay competitive. Aalto University has the necessary capabilities and will to tackle this challenge. However, implementing the required longer-term initiatives is difficult given the uncertain future outlook of public funding.

This makes your financial support so incredibly important. It ensures that Finland can remain competitive and that our students receive top-quality multidisciplinary education and strengthen Finland’s future workforce. It ensures the ability of world-class researchers to continue discovering and innovating toward a better world.

You, as our donor, are part of solving grand global challenges and shaping a sustainable future.

Thank you!

Ilkka Niemelä
President of Aalto University

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