Esa Saarinen

F-Factor, science based program for Flourishing Urbanism

Eino Kaila award (given annually for an outstanding teacher of the University of Helsinki) 1990. This is the year the award was first introduced in connection of the 350 festivities of the University of Helsinki.

Valkoisen Ruusun Ritarikunnan ritarimerkki, 1995

Sotainvalidien Veljesliiton mitali (Medal of the League of the Wounded War Veterans) 1997

Helsingin yliopiston Pronssinen mitali (Bronze Medal of the University of Helsinki) 1998.

Keskuskauppakamarin rautainen ansiomerkki 2003 (The Medal for Extraordinary Achievement, The Central Chamber of Commerce, Finland)

Maarjamaa Risti kolmanda klassi teenetemärk (Estonia) 2014

Lifetime award for positivity, Junior Chamber of Commerce & Positiivarit, 2014.

Esa Saarinen's deeply human and memorable lectures have spoken powerfully to Aalto University students and to the whole nation for over twenty years. At the heart of his personal approach is ‘thinking about thinking’, presented with his own distinctive lecturing style. At Otaniemi in Espoo, his philosophy and system thinking lecture series grew into a community phenomenon. The lecture recordings have had more than one million viewers, and the total time spent on viewing them totals a whopping 50 years. His farewell lecture last spring was hugely popular, and it received the media's attention as well.