Events Library
Events Library compiles all information you need for creating an event.
Events and campus experience
Communications services offer variety of support for organising events and event marketing. Large community events like Day One and academic traditions are organized by communications team as well as developing the campus experience in the long term.
Instructions for organising events and exhibitions
Events Library collects a wide set of instructions, tips and tricks for anyone arranging events in Aalto.
Tools for organising events
Registrations can be collected in many different services. Webropol is simple and among the most common ones. Blackthorn (a Salesforce tool) can do much more than that. Read more on the page below.
Event Management Tool (Blackthorn/Salesforce)
Allows users to create event webpages, collect registrations, and send marketing and transactional emails.
Developing our campus experience
Exhibitions
We arrange two major exhibitions per year. One in the spring with varying themes, and Designs for a Cooler Planet in the fall.
Campus visits
We host campus visits for VIP guests, high school students, OPOs etc.
Marsio
Marsio is an open meeting space, event and exhibition venue, enabler of interdisciplinary research and art. Marsio events are facilitated by Communications services.
Aalto art collection
Aalto University uses one percent of building costs to fund art. Art collection is curated by communications services.
Prominent art at Aalto University
Aalto University promotes visibility and impact of art and creativity both in society and at our own campus. Aalto University uses one percent of building costs to fund art.
See also
Academic events and traditions
Academic events cover the entire academic year from Aalto Day One all the way to the Ceremony Week with ceremonial conferments. Tenured professors' Installation Talks and public defences spread throughout the academic year.
Designs for a Cooler Planet
Discover tomorrow at Aalto University's biggest exhibition! Open 1 September – 30 October 2026.
Designs for a Cooler Planet awarded with a prestigious Helsinki Design Award
Designs for a Cooler Planet, Aalto University’s biggest annual exhibition showcasing the latest experiments, innovations, and prototypes by students and researchers, has received the prestigious Helsinki Design Award. The nearly two-month-long exhibition is now open on Aalto University’s campus, Espoo.
Marsio
The new meeting place on Aalto University campus. Experience tomorrow!
Aalto University Shop
Aalto University Shop brings together a selection of Aalto ARTS Books publications, student and alumni works and sustainably-minded Aalto University products.
Public events
A! Walk
A! Walks is a summer course centered around walking-based learning, exploring Otaniemi campus and its surrounding urban–natural spaces. Rather than standalone lectures or experiments, the program is designed as a curated sequence of sensory, interdisciplinary walks, guiding participants toward experiences in coexistence, awareness, action, and futures. If successful, A! Walks may be continued during the regular semester.
Coaching in Action! - coaching group for programme directors
Stay ahead of the curve and attend to a coaching group with other programme directors.
A! Walk
A! Walks is a summer course centered around walking-based learning, exploring Otaniemi campus and its surrounding urban–natural spaces. Rather than standalone lectures or experiments, the program is designed as a curated sequence of sensory, interdisciplinary walks, guiding participants toward experiences in coexistence, awareness, action, and futures. If successful, A! Walks may be continued during the regular semester.
A! Walk
A! Walks is a summer course centered around walking-based learning, exploring Otaniemi campus and its surrounding urban–natural spaces. Rather than standalone lectures or experiments, the program is designed as a curated sequence of sensory, interdisciplinary walks, guiding participants toward experiences in coexistence, awareness, action, and futures. If successful, A! Walks may be continued during the regular semester.Exhibitions
Designs for a Cooler Planet 2026 exhibition
Curious to catch a glimpse of tomorrow? Welcome to experience our largest exhibition of the year!
Aalto ARTS Grad Show 2026 exhibition grand opening
Join us in celebrating our graduates from the School of Arts, Design and Architecture! Let's meet in Kipsari on 3 September 2026 at 3 p.m.
Cooler Planet: Guided public art tour 8.9.
Join the tour with Outi Turpeinen (manager, Public art) and get to know Aalto University's public art collections in the Marsio, Kide, School of Business, and Väre buildings in more detail.
The Nordic Tipping Point
How will the climate tipping points change the Nordics, and can we still stop them?Campus and buildings
Campus
Aalto University's campus in Otaniemi is the home of an innovative community.
Explore the campus virtually at virtualtour.aalto.fi.
Visiting Aalto University
Every year Aalto University welcomes thousands of visitors from all over the world. This page gives an overview on how visitors can experience Aalto University campus. You can also browse our virtual campus tour.
Opening hours of campus buildings and lobby services
Otaniemi campus and Töölö