Alumni encounters from Zurich to Washington D.C.

The alumni event in Munich gathered nearly 200 alumni at BMW Welt. The evening featured inspiring key notes on future mobility, material innovations and customer experience from Kari Tammi, Pirjo Kääriäinen, Ulrike v. Mirbach and Peter Mueller.

Warm thanks to Antonino Gomes de Sá from BMW and our president Ilkka Niemelä for hosting the evening, and special thanks to our alum Franca Ennerst, who guided the conversations with warmth.

The most meaningful part of alumni events is always the networking, when new connections are made, ideas shared and collaborations initiated. These encounters strengthen the sense that Aalto remains part of our lives wherever we are in the world.

Leena-Kaisa Mikkola, Finland’s Ambassador to the United States, hosted an alumni event in April in Washington, D.C., in collaboration with Finnish universities. Aalto University was represented by Provost Kristiina Mäkelä. The atmosphere among the alumni was like a reunion of old friends, where memories of their student days brought people together across generations and disciplines.

Aalto University's The Pathfinders exhibition opening at the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels brought together researchers, policymakers and Aalto alumni to explore the bottlenecks slowing the transition from a "take–make–waste" economy to a circular one.

The exhibition in June showcased research tackling the barriers to designing buildings for reuse rather than demolition, recovering critical metals from lithium-ion batteries, and scaling textile recycling across value chains.

Alumni met Aalto delegations and got together also in Barcelona, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, New Delhi and Bangalore as well as in Oulu.  

Become an alumni ambassador

We want to build an active international alumni community that consists of numerous local alumni networks around the world. 

In these networks, alumni ambassadors play a key role. Ambassadors, for example, organise alumni meetings, act as a contact point between the university and local alumni, and advise students who consider moving abroad for work or studies.

We encourage alumni to set up groups that will serve as a hub for networking, sharing opportunities, and organising future events and activities. Read more and contact us if you became interested. 

Also, we would like to invite fresh graduates to join us at local student recruitment fairs to tell potential students about studying at Aalto and living in Finland.

Coming up this autumn

We will meet alumni at least in Stockholm on September 2, in Glasgow on September 7 and in Singapore on November 28. Also, our alumni ambassadors will organise get-togethers in many cities around the world. 

If you would like to be invited to an alumni event in your area, please keep your contact information updated here.