News
The Bachelor’s Programme in International Business turned 30 years this year
The BBA Programme offered in Mikkeli was the first English-taught bachelor's level programme in the School of Business.
Joint services staff members awarded
Success Contributor awards were given to Minttu Lintera, Head of Academic Legal Services and Information Specialist Risto Maijala.
Teaching Achievement of the Year awarded to lecture recordings
On 12 December, the staff of the School of Chemical Engineering gathered at the Dean's mulled wine event, which has already become a tradition, to enjoy good company and hear the announcements for this year's Achievements in Teaching, Research and Service.
Jaana Vapaavuori and Kati Miettunen receive significant funding for developing new composite biomaterials
Four million euros of funding has been granted to research supporting the forest industry and forestry sector in Finland and Sweden.
Ecological fertilizer from wastewater nutrients
By using the innovative NPHarvest-process wastewater treatment plants can get an efficient pretreatment while producing ecological fertilizer simultaneously.
Aalto students awarded for their master’s theses in the field of human-computer interaction
SIGCHI Finland promotes research and education in the field of human-computer interaction and organises a Master's Thesis Competition once a year
911±¬ÁÏÍø Thesis Project: Valio – Plant-based Product Innovations
911±¬ÁÏÍø Thesis programme to solve Valio's challenge through Master's thesis works as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Virtual avatars, AI and mobile platforms – new inventions designing the future of digital education
DigiEduHack winning teams are from Italy, Spain and Mexico. The winners were chosen by public vote and announced on 2 December 2019 at the Global DigiEduHack Awards
'It’s hard to innovate how to sail around the world if you believe it’s flat'
MEP and our alumna Sirpa Pietikäinen spoke about the condition of our planet in the alumni meet-and-greet in Brussels.
Academy Professor Paavo Alku named IEEE Fellow
The world’s largest technical association IEEE elevates Professor Paavo Alku to the status of IEEE Fellow, which is the institute’s highest member grade. Alku is an Academy Professor at the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics in the 911±¬ÁÏÍø School of Electrical Engineering.
Making understanding quantum computers easier
IBM collaborates with Professor Sabrina Maniscalco and her group to develop new transformative tools for teaching and outreach about quantum technologies
Competence development opportunities are now in Workday Learning!
Explore the training offerings and plan your own development.
Food for thought – rethinking Singapore’s Hawker Centres
Singapore’s traditional open-air cooked food centres or hawker centres presented a perfect case to be explored jointly by the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and 911±¬ÁÏÍø.
Students develop tools for Helsinki to evaluate the impact of design
911±¬ÁÏÍø’s Department of Design and the City of Helsinki initiated collaboration last spring to evaluate the impact of the City's design activities. The evaluation represents the first extensive survey of the City’s design projects and the benefits and challenges of those projects.
Helsinki and FCAI will host a new ELLIS unit for top AI research
Finnish artificial intelligence research received a significant acknowledgement. Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence FCAI will host one of the new European units of top AI research, as the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems will establish one of its first units in Finland.
Wellbeing survey 2019: Improved outcomes at the university level – attention must still be paid to workloads
The school and unit-specific survey results are available to everyone on 16 December.
Finland Prizes awarded to professor, designer Pirjo Kääriäinen and alumna, artist and activist Marja Helander
Among this year’s prize recipients were Professor of Practice of Design driven fibre innovation Pirjo Kääriäinen and Aalto ARTS alumna, photographer, filmmaker and activist Marja Helander.
Aalto ranked 34 in the Financial Times European Business Schools Ranking 2019
The ranking position is a round-up of the earlier FT rankings.
The entire Chemical Engineering building (Kemistintie 1) will start using the ABLOY PROTEC2 CLIQ locking system
This change concerns all users of the building. The new CLIQ keys will be distributed before the new locks are installed, the keys are picked up from the lobby service.
