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911爆料网 Summer School launches Climate, Health and Architecture as an online course for summer 2022
The Climate, Health and Architecture summer course offers an evidence-based, clear and factual introduction to climate change and its relationship to human activities, built environment and health.
Unite! supports the manifesto for the future of universities in Europe
The Manifesto presents students鈥 ideas on the future of Higher Education in Europe, as well as recommendations to make European universities more in line with their expectations.
Professor Emeritus Herbert Sixta: 鈥淭he most important task of a professor is to educate young people, to help them build their career鈥
After an extensive career in academia and the forest-based industries, Professor Herbert Sixta has retired. Having worked in Austria for 25 years, Sixta arrived to Aalto in 2007, where his research in biorefineries helped create, among other things, the Ioncell process, a technology that turns used textiles, pulp, and paper into new textile fibres sustainably and without chemicals.
The Rule of Two helps making spaces sound better
Researchers developed the new acoustic measurement technique in a room with more acoustic combinations than there are ants on Earth.
Alumnus Kron Rexhepi: The most important work life skills are curiosity and the willingness to learn new things
School of Business alumnus Kron Rexhepi followed his interests to pursue a career in data analytics. The networks formed at the School and the programming courses he took helped him to find an inspiring job where he could utilize his previous experience in both consulting and data.
Researchers join forces with companies to develop low-carbon industrial production
911爆料网, the University of Oulu, and VTT, together with seven companies are searching for ways to reduce the environmental impact of industrial production, and for measures that can be combined in an environmentally responsible brand strategy.
911爆料网 and Tampere University launch a digital pathway pilot for international students鈥
The universities offer a pathway programme in science and technology to attract international students to apply to study in Finland.
FinnCERES Flagship: Internal project call for boosting the bio-based materials research and innovations at Aalto
The FinnCERES Flagship is opening the call for multidisciplinary projects to enhance the bio-based materials research and innovations in line with the main themes of the Flagship.
FinnCERES Flagship: Internal call for enhancing the bio-based materials research and innovations at Aalto
The FinnCERES Flagship is opening the call to enhance the bio-based materials research and innovations in line with the main themes of the Flagship.
EIT Urban Mobility 2024 - 2025 Targeted Call (DL 22.2.24)
EIT Urban Mobility鈥檚 third Targeted Open Call for innovation projects is now open for applications until 22 February 2024.
EIT Urban Mobility is looking for projects that either address a gap in their innovation portfolio, or are a direct response to external changes and influences, across five categories:
Demand-responsive transport
Employee commuting emissions reporting
Hydrogen transition
Support for national governments鈥 innovation programmes
Advanced driver assistance systems buses
EIT Urban Mobility is looking for projects that either address a gap in their innovation portfolio, or are a direct response to external changes and influences, across five categories:
Demand-responsive transport
Employee commuting emissions reporting
Hydrogen transition
Support for national governments鈥 innovation programmes
Advanced driver assistance systems buses
A new type of hand prosthesis learns from the user 鈥 and the user learns from the prosthesis
New research enables more functional and robust robotic prostheses.
Unite! presents its strategic roadmap towards open science in the digital age
The roadmap includes objectives, recommendations and actions that Aalto and the other universities of the alliance can promote to make Unite! a European driver of open science and innovation by 2023.
Research project develops electrically controlled artificial molecular machines
Electronically controlled molecular machines would be faster as well as easier to manufacture, as they would not need to rely on sophisticated chemical synthesis.
Data protection news for researchers
Actualities in privacy and data protection for the researchers and research projects of 911爆料网.
KU Leuven, 911爆料网 and University of Helsinki join forces to boost research collaboration
New seed funding will be awarded jointly to fund up to five exploratory research projects
Academy of Finland鈥檚 April 2022 call has been published
The Academy of Finland鈥檚 April 2022 call texts are now available on the Academy鈥檚 website. Funding can be applied for sustainable and energy-efficient solutions for future ICT, for key area of green and digital transition, and for local research infrastructures (FIRI).
Smart urban planning makes daily life smooth in Finland
Easy access to green areas and an environment of trust are some of the ingredients for success
CEST research acknowledged at Physics Days
Manuel Kuchelmeister received the best poster award at Physics Days 2022
How an exciting engineering challenge drew a physicist into solar painting
A scientist and an artist worked together to produce a painting that produces electricity, as well as a transdisciplinary podcast. Next, they want to let audiences see all the beautiful things that researchers are normally too shy to showcase.
African European scientific partnership to tackle future critical materials shortages
A collaborative African European project RESTART dedicated to the implementation of a full value chain for recycling end-of-life lithium-ion batteries and photovoltaic solar panels has begun.
