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The Weisell Foundation, a long-time supporter of Aalto University, is donating €70 000 to Aalto University Junior to be used for scaling up workshops in robotics. ‘Robotics-related workshops are among the most popular workshops…

By decision of the president of the university, the Aalto University Foundation will resign from the inter-university agreement on flexible study rights (JOO agreement). The agreement, signed by the founding universities of Aalto University…

The prize was awarded for the first time on 20 August 2024 to Jyri Fält, an architecture graduate from the University of Oulu. In his thesis on urban planning, Fält studied the infill development of Hakaniemenranta in Helsinki…

The 51st EATCS International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP) is held in Tallinn on 8-12 July, 2024. ICALP is the main conference and annual meeting of the European Association for Theoretical Computer…

The Dean of School of Business Timo Korkeamäki and the Dean of School of Engineering Kari Tammi have appointed Assistant Professor (1st term) Prottoy Akbar to Assistant Professor (2nd term), starting on August 1, 2024. The field of the…

Martin-Yerga received his doctorate from University of Oviedo Spain in 2016. After his defence, he has worked as a researcher at the University of Warwick UK and Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Most recently he has been…

Mäkelä received her doctorate from University of Helsinki in 2009. After her defence, she has worked as a researcher at Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute in Netherlands and at University of Helsinki. Most recently she has…

2 027 new students were admitted to Aalto’s Finnish and Swedish bachelor’s programmes. 1 489 of the new students were chosen for the field of technology, 379 for business and 159 for the arts. 'My warmest congratulations to all new…

Artificial Intelligence stormed into everyone's reach late in the year 2022, when Chat GPT was launched. In the summer of 2023, Aalto University published guidelines for teachers and students on the use of AI in teaching and…

As COVID-19 spread globally in 2020, many countries swiftly closed their borders to prevent the disease from entering. However, there was little scientific evidence to support the effectiveness of such measures. While post-COVID research…