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Aalto Summer School 2020: Call for courses and programmes
Aalto Summer School offers summer courses and programmes in an international environment. Otaniemi campus is a destination, which offers all students unforgettable academic experiences. A unified curriculum for the summer period makes it easier for the student to navigate through the course and programme offering.
Skype for Business will be shut down, transition to Teams begins – join Teams Only
Skype for Business will be shut down by July 2021. The successor for the tool is Microsoft Teams and transition at Aalto will be done gradually during this year. Read more about the transition below and see how to join Teams Only mode now.
Service break on Aalto Wiki on Monday, 30 December 2019 at 12-12.30
There will be a short service break on Aalto Wiki (wiki.aalto.fi) on Monday, 30 December, from 12:00 to 12:30.
Print in City – a public print, scan and copy service replaces Magnacards / cardboard copycards by the end of this year
Customers will be able to use Print in City-service instead, where one can upload the amount of balance through online bank credentials or via credit card combined with a PayPal-account. The new service requires only a personal pin-code for usage and therefore a separate printing card is no longer necessary.
Short breaks in file services on Monday, 30 December starting at 4 pm
Service breaks last between 1-3 minutes. No need for any customer actions, services return to normal when the
breaks are over.
breaks are over.
Teaching and learning evaluation exercise, TEE2020
The target of TEE2020 is to make visible and evaluate the achievements in education during the 10 Aalto years.
Competence development opportunities are now in Workday Learning!
Explore the training offerings and plan your own development.
Independence Day awards presented
The Finnish Independence Day awards granted by the President of Finland Sauli Niinistö went to two employees of Aalto joint services.
Short breaks in file services on Monday 9 December starting at 4 pm
Aalto ITS will do updates in home.org.aalto.fi, work.org.aalto.fi and teamwork services to improve service level on Monday 9 December at
4 pm. This will cause some short breaks (approximately 1-3 minutes/service).
4 pm. This will cause some short breaks (approximately 1-3 minutes/service).
Call for letters of intent of the Strategic Research Council’s new research programmes published, call open 4.12.2019 - 15.1.2020
The application process has two stages, and deadline for the first phase (letters of intent) is January 15, 2020. Projects to be invited to the second phase are selected in March 2020.
Campus restaurants’ opening hours during the holiday season 2019
Campus restaurants have reduced opening hours during the holiday season in December and January.
Problems in automatic ordering of toner replacements for Canon devices
The automatic ordering of toner replacements and waste bottles doesn’t work at the moment. You can order materials at huoltokutsut@canon.fi.
Degree regulations revision underway
911±¬ÁÏÍø’s degree regulations for bachelor’s and for master’s degree education is scheduled for replacement by a single set of regulations covering both degrees. The change is scheduled to enter into effect on 1 August 2020.
Flow of studies – helping students hit stride
911±¬ÁÏÍø seeks to promote student mobility between its schools. A new task force consisting of the school deans and vice deans for education has been set up to tackle the challenges involved.
Diversity & equality conversations in the School of Science
Discussions about opinions and experiences in our community help inform next year’s equality action plan
Artificial Intelligence (AI) workshop for universities on 10 December 2019
The 1-day workshop includes an overview of Microsoft Azure AI platform, Machine Learning Fundamentals, an introduction to Azure Notebooks, hands-on lab with Azure Machine Learning Studio where you’ll prep data, build and train a model, evaluate, deploy and predict.
Webropol version will change 21.11.
Webropol version 2.0 will change to 3.0 at 21.11.2019. Version 2.0 is still working but you have to go there via Apps. New questionnaires are not able to create anymore to version 2.0.
A new semantic portal brings together data on Finnish civil war victims for open use
A new semantic portal and linked open data service combines information about the war victims of the Finnish Civil War (1918) and prison camps, the First World War, and Kinship Wars that took place around the same time, a century ago.
Windows 7 support ends at the end of 2019
The support of Windows 7 operating system ends 1.1.2020. After that it is not possible to log on Aalto Windows 7 computers. These computers have now a message at log on screen.
Aalto translation team expanded
The Aalto translation team has become larger with the addition of a second translator in Swedish.