Our strategy

Research and art: Driving excellence 

We create world-class clusters of excellence and bring talent together.
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Our long-term purpose: 

We excel and make breakthroughs in and across science, art, technology and business.

Our current focus of development: 

Driving excellence. We create world-class clusters of excellence and bring talent together.

The planned actions: 

We cultivate excellence in our strongest areas of research and art, both existing and emerging.

We develop and support selected physical and digital infrastructures.

We collaborate to amplify our impact in a changing global landscape.
 

Our current key research areas

Our strength is excellence and increasing impact on our chosen key areas in research, art and education and a unique combination of collaborating disciplines.

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Research & Art

Our research focuses on seven key areas combining four core competences in the fields of digitalisation, materials, arts and design, and business together with three grand challenges related to energy, living environments, and health.

News related to research and art

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Research & Art Published:

BioSusTex Advances Sustainable Textile Research and Industry Collaboration

The BioSusTex consortium meeting held on 29–30 September.
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Research & Art Published:

BioProTex Targets Greener Medical Textiles

BioProTex Wins Best Pitch Award.
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Awards and Recognition, Research & Art Published:

Tuulia Nikula is the Young Landscape Architect of the Year

Nikula is being honored as an open-minded trailblazer who is taking landscape architecture into areas where the field is still limited but the need is great.
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Cooperation, Research & Art Published:

The Centre for Radical Creativity is launching a new corporate collaboration pilot with support from the TT Foundation

In the pilot, companies will have the opportunity to explore and test new ways to address the challenges of transformation in collaboration with Aalto University.
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