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Do you want to know more about the Carbon Neutral Campus 2030 project? Or about the biodiversity in campus nature? Do you need to calm down and take a silent moment without IT devices? You are welcome to join our Sustainable Campus event on 24th March!
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Photo: Mikko Raskinen / Aalto-yliopisto

Welcome to participate to the traditional Sustainable Campus / Earth Hour event on the campus. Aalto community is once again participating the international Earth Hour on 24th March organized by WWF. Sustainable campus event earlier on the same week is also supporting this.

Event is aimed to all Aalto community.

The event starts with breakfast at 8.30 in A Grid. In the program (starting at 9.00, changes possible)

  • 9.05 Carbon neutral Aalto 2030 –update & achievements, Tuomo Uusitalo, Satu Kankaala / ACRE
  • 9.25 Keynote 1: Elisa Lähde, Assistant Professor / Aalto University:  "Dialogue with the Nature" & discussion
  • ​10.00 Keynote 2: Mika Jalava, Postdoctoral Researcher / Aalto University: “Sustainability in Food Production" & discussion
  • 10.25 Shortly about Earth Hour & how this shows up on campus & next steps, Tuomo Uusitalo / ACRE
  • 10.40 Anna Poutiainen, University Chaplain: “Towards social sustainability with a sense of community and hope", silent moment​​

The event will be held in Finnish or in English (depending on the audience).

Sign up before 20.3.2022 (sign up time extented). Welcome! 
The event is organized by Campus Sustainability team.

Sign up here

Sustainable Campus / Earth Hour event on the campus

Welcome to participate to the traditional Sustainable Campus / Earth Hour event on the campus. Aalto community is once again participating the international Earth Hour on 24th March organized by WWF. Sustainable campus event earlier on the same week is also supporting this.

Read more and sign up
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Campus Sustainability team

The main mission of the Campus Sustainability team is to promote sustainable development through the perspectives of ecological, social and economic responsibility.

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Front and back covers of book called Unfolding Public Art. Text in red, book covers in sand colour.
Awards and Recognition, Research & Art, University Published:

The Most Beautiful Books 2023 - The Finnish Book Arts Committee awarded several Aaltonians

Personnel and alumni were awarded in various categories
Ursula von der Leyen in her opening speech
Cooperation, Research & Art Published:

The New European Bauhaus festival brought together European decision-makers and experts in cross-sectoral sustainable development

Aalto University participated in the New European Bauhaus Festival with its sustainable construction exhibition, Time out! Rethinking construction.
KY United -jalkapallojoukkue, 2024. Kuva: Eemil Kari
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Football team KY United will play against Käpylän Pallo in a sensational match on Tuesday 16.4.2024

KY United will play against KäPa, a second highest tier team in Finland, in the 3rd round of the Suomen Cup.
Olli Ikkala ja Esa Saarinen
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Olli Ikkala and Esa Saarinen found a common thread in baroque music and lecturing

Olli Ikkala will continue his research on nature-inspired materials and will find himself again as an organist after his busy research career. Esa Saarinen, on the other hand, continued to lecture the Philosophy and Systems Thinking (Filosofia ja systeemiajattelu) course to packed halls this spring. When they met, they discussed the organ and the atmosphere of the lectures.
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