Oskari Vilamo Fund awarded the best theses on building trade
In November, the Oskari Vilamo Fund, managed by the Foundation of Economic Education, awarded the best construction theses completed in 2025. In total, one dissertations and six diploma theses from Aalto University were awarded.
The doctoral dissertation prize of this year have been granted to Teemu Ojala (Department of Civil Engineering) from Aalto University. The grant for doctoral dissertation is 5 000 euros.
Four master's thesis awards were granted to Aalto University graduates: Simo Kauppila (Department of Civil Engineering), Lassi Tikkamäki (Department of Architecture), Vidanage Sandaru (Department of Civil Engineering) and Simon Örnberg (Department of Architecture). Each grant is 3 000 euros.
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Oskari Vilamo Fund – Developer of Building Trade
Oskari Vilamo Fund belongs to the Foundation of Economic Education. It is named after the Councellor Oskari Vilamo, and its purpose is to further the high-grade study on building branch. In the Anniversary of 75 years in 1985, Lemminkäinen LLC founded a Fund to credit of Councellor Oskari Vilamo, the leading person in the history of the company.
The Fund has awarded best theses already from 1993. So far, the Fund has awarded 81 PhD- 20 Licentiate- and 189 MSc-theses, including the awards of today from 2018. The Fund is a special Fund of the Foundation of Economic Education. Oskari Vilamo ja Heikki Pentti foundations have granted over 1,2 million euros as awards since 1985.
YIT has been contributing the fund since year 2018.
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