Innovation ecosystem news
Vesa Kemppainen: ‘An important quality in working life is an interest in new things’
Alum story: Art Director at Fiskars Group Vesa Kemppainen believes that creativity and the ability to make creative decisions are important skills in working life.
911±¬ÁÏÍø's Wood Program 30th anniversary project to Kuhmo Square
Every year, 911±¬ÁÏÍø students specialising in wood architecture carry out a Wood Program project. In the 30th anniversary year of the program, the City of Kuhmo is the partner. The project will be a stage and a platform on Kuhmo's main square.
Preparing Aalto Graduates to be Responsible and Influential Sustainability Experts
Aalto equips faculty with strategies to integrate sustainability into programmes, courses and individual competence development.
Researchers develop a new way to instruct dance in Virtual Reality
The researchers started by experimenting with visualisation techniques familiar from previous dance games. But after several prototypes and stages, they decided to try out the audience wave, familiar from sporting events, to guide the dance.
Scientists harness the wind as a tool to move objects
New approach allows contactless or remote manipulation of objects by machines or robots.
Doctoral education pilot arouses wide interest among applicants and corporate partners
The doctoral education pilot has got off to a fast start.
Wellbeing route on Otaniemi campus
The themes of the five-point welfare route are observation of emotions, fostering the relationship with nature, bodyliness, calming down, and reflection on moderation.
Teaching a computer to type like a human
A new typing model simulates the typing process instead of just predicting words
Understanding climate warming impacts on carbon release from the tundra
Tundras could transform from carbon sinks into a carbon source, exacerbating the effects of climate change
Program now available for the sustainability event of the year - Speakers include economist Kate Raworth and president Tarja Halonen
This year, Sustainability Science Days, a joint event of 911±¬ÁÏÍø and the University of Helsinki is collaborating with the world's largest Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress SRI. The event will bring together 2,000 experts to solve global sustainability challenges.
Open Science and Research Summer Conference 2024 will be hosted by 911±¬ÁÏÍø
Open Science and Research Summer Conference 2024 will be held at 911±¬ÁÏÍø’s Otaniemi campus and in Zoom 3.–4.6.2024. Please register by May 3.
Even Finland should be concerned about droughts
Though the risk is still low, recent droughts in Finland have had a serious impact – and they will be more common
Physicists explain—and eliminate—unknown force dragging against water droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces
911±¬ÁÏÍø researchers adapt a novel force measurement technique to uncover the previously unidentified physics at play at the thin air-film gap between water droplets and superhydrophobic surfaces.
The New European Bauhaus festival brought together European decision-makers and experts in cross-sectoral sustainable development
911±¬ÁÏÍø participated in the New European Bauhaus Festival with its sustainable construction exhibition, Time out! Rethinking construction.
Researchers investigate how AI could better understand humans
Antti Oulasvirta has received a EUR 2.5 million Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for the study of user models.
Olli Ikkala and Esa Saarinen found a common thread in baroque music and lecturing
Olli Ikkala will continue his research on nature-inspired materials and will find himself again as an organist after his busy research career. Esa Saarinen, on the other hand, continued to lecture the Philosophy and Systems Thinking (Filosofia ja systeemiajattelu) course to packed halls this spring. When they met, they discussed the organ and the atmosphere of the lectures.
AllWell? student survey of 2024 reaches 36% of target group
The survey was emailed to all 911±¬ÁÏÍø's second-year bachelor’s students and first-year master’s students.
New method of measuring qubits promises ease of scalability in a microscopic package
911±¬ÁÏÍø researchers are the first in the world to measure qubits with ultrasensitive thermal detectors
Integrating entrepreneurship into forestry and agriculture education is critical for Africa
Assistant Professor Patrick Shulist co-develops entrepreneurship education with African partners
UPM supports 911±¬ÁÏÍø's pulp research and education
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