Events Library
Events Library compiles all information you need for creating an event.
Events and campus experience
The Events and Campus Experience Unit is responsible for the production of strategic events and for developing the campus attractiveness. The unit also manages Marsio’s public events, exhibitions, the student ambassador programme, Aalto art collection, some of the campus visits, and the Aalto University Shop.
Instructions for organising events and exhibitions
Events Library has instructions, tips and tricks for anyone arranging events in Aalto community.
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.
You can find the Events team’s contact details here.
Event Management Tool (Blackthorn/Salesforce)
Allows users to create event webpages, collect registrations, and send marketing and transactional emails.
Liveto – for virtual events
The virtual event platform Liveto supports presenting and hosting academic meetings and conferences online, offering Aalto faculty the possibility to keep up with academic networks and offer high-standard collaboration tools for our new way of working.
Developing our campus experience
Our campus experience services aim to attract visitors to the campus—especially first-time visitors—and to give them a memorable impression of Aalto University through a campus tour, visit, exhibition or event. Visitors may include prospective students or employees, study councillors, donors, alumni, diplomats, corporate partners or investors.
You can find the Campus Experience team’s contact details here.
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 tours and visits
We host campus visits for VIP guests, high school students, study counsellors, or anyone interested in our campus and studying at Aalto University.
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 University Shop
Aalto University Shop sells unique products and artwork designed by our students and alumni, as well as Aalto University-branded products.
You can also order products as business gifts or for internal use (e.g. the Aalto Kit for new employees), either in store or online. Sign in with HAKA login and select the ‘Internal order’ option in the shopping basket. Aalto students and staff receive a 10% discount on full‑price items (excluding student and alumni works and gift cards).
The Shop staff can also help with designing and ordering branded products for a conference or special occasions.
Student ambassadors and campus guides
Student ambassadors are Aalto students, who visit high schools and fairs to talk about Aalto and university studies through their own personal experiences. Campus guides lead visiting school groups to the most interesting places of the campus while sharing information about the campus and their studies at Otaniemi.
Events, fairs, and webinars for potential students
We organise events, fairs, and webinars that give potential students the chance to meet Aalto University students and staff in Finland and around the world, year-round, online and offline.
Aalto University Art Collection
Aalto University uses one percent of building costs to fund art. The purpose of public art is to embrace the connections between art and science, to create imaginative surroundings for study and work and to make you simply wonder. The art works is to encourage each viewer to investigate, to stop for a moment to experience art in busy everyday life. Art Collection is managed and curated by Communications Services.
Communications to Finnish study counsellor
We organise high school visits, campus tours and webinars for Finnish study counsellor.
We also publish a newsletter in Finnish 5-6 times a year.
Additional information
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.
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.
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.
Marsio
The 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.
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.
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.
Aalto Founder Sprint (Applications for Fall 2026)
Aalto Founder Sprint (Fall 2026) applications are open. This is a highly selective, highly rated 3-month sandbox where Aalto students learn to build like true founders - trusted by students, founders, and VCs.
Book a visit to Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition
Experience Helsinki Design Week at Aalto University and reserve your place on a guided exhibition tour. The tours are free of charge and take place on Tuesdays. Tours are offered in Finnish and English on alternating weeks.Exhibitions
Book a visit to Designs for a Cooler Planet exhibition
Experience Helsinki Design Week at Aalto University and reserve your place on a guided exhibition tour. The tours are free of charge and take place on Tuesdays. Tours are offered in Finnish and English on alternating weeks.
Cooler Planet: Guided public art tour 9.9.
Join the tour with Outi Turpeinen (manager, Public art) and get to know Aalto University's public art collections in the Marsio, Kide, and Viima buildings in more detail.
The Nordic Tipping Point
How will the climate tipping points change the Nordics, and can we still stop them?
Cooler Planet: Guided public art tour 7.10.
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.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