Transforming Education to Reach Global Impact

The ‘Transforming Education to Reach Global Impact’ exhibition showcases strategic university initiatives where project courses from various Aalto schools have been the channel to reform education for global sustainability across continents and to launch a new form of field-based co-teaching between Aalto University and universities in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America from 2017 to 2024.

Higher education plays a pivotal role in addressing global challenges, advancing social justice, fostering international relations and driving economic development. The exhibition illustrates interdisciplinary student projects, which have served not only as a means of delivering education but also as the platform to initiate transformative changes, reaching today tens of thousands of beneficiaries in the Global South every year.

+ Book launch event in September 2024:
"Aalto Global Impact – a cross-continental journey in sustainability education". Aalto University publication series - CROSSOVER 6/2024

This book tells the story of Aalto University’s Global PBL projects: education partnerships in Africa and South Asia, where peer collaboration has taken universities from co-teaching sustainability projects to intercultural curriculum and pedagogical reforms, renewed education strategies and an entirely new vision of forging future talent together with students, educators and communities of the Global South.

Visit the exhibition, located in Väre LQ Lobby in conjunction with the ARTS Student Show.