Lifewide Learning

What is Aalto Lifewide Learning?

Learning can happen regardless of time or place. We want to provide learning content that inspires, challenges and encourages you to take a step towards something new. Read more about our thoughts about lifewide learning!

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Aalto University Summer School

Aalto University Winter School

Join the Aalto University Winter School in January 2025. The application period is open from 1 October to 15 November 2024.
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The application period for FITech's autumn courses is open

The application period for FITech Network University's autumn courses is open! The selection includes over 100 free courses in the themes of digitalisation and renewable energy.
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Aalto University Junior reached a record 31,000 children and young people last year

Aalto University Junior had another record year. Read more about the activitiies in 2023.
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South Korea Lifelong Education Development Foundation and Aalto University Lifewide Learning exchange experiences on lifelong education

The Aalto University Lifewide Learning team were honoured to host the South Korea Lifelong Education Development Foundation on Aalto University campus in May 2024.
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Aalto is developing its lifewide learning offering – microcredentials can now be used to build on existing competence

Microcredentials are particularly useful for meeting rapidly emerging competence needs.
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Offering to answer all learning needs

If you are as curious as we are about the world around us and its changes, you have come to the right place – Aalto University's Lifewide Learning offers you the tools to develop your skills in an ever-changing environment. Based on your own needs and goals, you can study either online or on campus, self-paced or intensively with a group. The individual courses, modules, lectures and micro credentials serve an acute need for information whereas more extensive continuous professional development and degrees are suitable for updating knowledge in the long term.

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Lifewide learning for organisations

Engage and upskill your employees in the rapid changing environment with easily accessible academic learning.

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Learn online

Open online courses in Aalto's key areas of expertise are available to you free of charge, and you can start learning right away.

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Lifewide learning courses and programmes

Aalto University’s extensive lifewide learning portfolio ranges from individual courses to full degree programmes.

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Boost your skills: learn the basics of radical creativity

Creative thinking and related capacity to change are core competencies of the future in all fields. Aalto University will launch a free online introductory course on radical creativity in Finnish and English on November 14, 2024.
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Aalto University Winter School teacher interview: "Great branding comes from solid substance"

We spoke with the teachers of the Winter School course Designing Brand Strategy to get a closer look at how students will learn to develop a successful and distinctive brand strategy through design thinking. This project-based course allows students to work in small teams to redesign the brand of an established Finnish company.
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Open university courses for spring 2025 have been published!

The open university courses for autumn semester have been added to our course selection.
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Reflections, Connections, and the Broadening of Perspectives Through the Finnish Global Engagement Programme

Cheryl Peck and Fardeen Ikram from Temasek Polytechnic share their experiences and the personal impact during the two-week customised course at Aalto University Summer School.
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