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Aalto Doctoral Education Services Receives Unite! Award

Aalto's Unite! Doctoral Education Team, led by Dr Minna Söderqvist, received an award for their long-term efforts to enhance doctoral mobility and collaboration across the Unite! Alliance. The award ceremony took place during the XII Unite! DIalogue.
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From left: Tiina Kotti, Dr. Minna Söderqvist, and Essi Viitanen accepted the award on behalf of the team. Photo: Katri Heinämäki

The Unite! Awards celebrate individuals and teams across the nine Unite! partner universities. Award recipients are those who make outstanding contributions to collaboration, education, research, and community within the alliance. 

Aalto’s Award-Winning Team

This year, Dr Minna Söderqvist and the Aalto Unite! Doctoral Education Team, composed of Katri Eeva, Tiina Kotti, Kitta Peura, Essi Viitanen, and colleagues from Aalto Doctoral Education Services, received recognition for their sustained commitment to strengthening doctoral education and mobility within Unite!.

Driving Doctoral Collaboration Across Europe

Aalto's Unite! Doctoral Education team, together with Aalto Doctoral Education Services, have made a significant, long-term impact by championing increased mobility opportunities for Aalto’s and partner universities’ doctoral students within the Unite! alliance.

Dr Söderqvist and her team have played a central role in organising the participation of Aalto’s doctoral students and lecturers in the Unite! Research School. Additionally, they have established a Unite! cotutelle framework agreement among the nine partner universities, a major step towards deepening collaboration in joint doctoral supervision and training.

Congratulations to Minna Söderqvist and the Aalto Doctoral Education Services team for this well-deserved recognition!

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XII Unite! Dialogue at Aalto University: A Week of Collaboration and Connection

Across meetings, social activities, and ceremonies, Uniters continued to strengthen the shared vision of Unite! and build sustainable collaborations.

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