Designs for a Cooler Planet
Visit Designs for a Cooler Planet festival in Otaniemi on 6 Sep – 3 Oct 2024 to challenge your perception of the possible.
Aalto Networking Platform
The Aalto Networking Platform initiative promotes cross-disciplinary actions in Aalto University’s seven key research areas. We bring together experts in science, technology, arts and business, across departments, supporting collaboration both inside and outside of Aalto.
Highlights
Featured stories, events, and other content by the Aalto Networking Platform.
Hydrogen Research Forum Finland: Annual Seminar 2024
Welcome to Hydrogen Research Forum Finland's annual seminar hosted at Aalto University.
Artificial Creativity – Aalto LASER Talks
Is artificial intelligence simply a tool, or does it possess creative capabilities?
Aalto Networking Platform Task Force
Key research areas
Learn more about activities in the seven key research areas of Aalto University.
Key Research Area: Advanced energy solutions
The main focus in energy research and teaching are energy sciences, multidisciplinary energy technologies, and sustainable energy solutions.
Key Research Area: Arts and design knowledge-building
Art and creativity enable looking at the grand challenges of our time from a new perspective. Look past the imaginable and join us in changing the world in art and design knowledge building.
Key Research Area: ICT and digitalisation
Digital technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and communications are cut through the whole society, from education to medicine and economics.
Key Research Area: Global business dynamics
Research related to global economy dynamics is carried out in the areas of business, economics, and industrial engineering and management.
Key Research Area: Health and Wellbeing
Aalto University’s expertise in health and wellbeing is broad-based, with strong clusters of research groups such as in medical devices, health AI, neuroscience, and care-facility architecture.
Key Research Area: Human-centred living environments
Research in this area aims to understand how individuals experience their physical environment and how art, spaces, buildings and communities can enhance it.
Key Research Area: Materials and sustainable use of natural resources
Materials research ranges from physics, nanotechnology, mechanics, performance and design to biomaterials and sustainable resource use.
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Aalto x IPCC: Climate scenarios, research and solutions
Climate focused lecture and a panel discussion event open to everyone. The event will be in Finnish.
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Related news
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Bio-based opacifiers offer solutions to cleaner environment
The CELLIGHT project, backed by approx. €1.3 million in funding from Business Finland, aims to develop cellulose-based alternatives to titanium dioxide (TiO2 ), a widely used whitener in paints, cosmetics, and coatings.
Researchers develop first carbon-negative binder material - Significant impact on emissions from infra building
Researchers have developed a binder material that can replace carbon-intensive cement
Kudos asks why we fear fungi but not microplastics
The Kudos Pavilion, a so-called “library of material relations”, blurs the boundaries between buildings and living organisms
Helsinki Capital Region Research Collaboration: Research funding for Impact Assessment Research for the years 2024-2028
The City of Helsinki, the City of Espoo, the City of Vantaa and the University of Helsinki and Aalto University have agreed to implement a scientific cooperation for the development of the Helsinki Capital Region in 2024-2028. Funding is now available for the period 2025-2027.- Published:
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