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Aalto Networking Platform
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.
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Mission and vision
Our key activities focus on bringing researchers together and supporting multi- and cross-disciplinary initiatives
Aalto Networking Platform Task Force
Aalto Networking Platform Task Force is an advisory group of professors and stakeholders within Aalto that steers the Platform’s activities.
Highlights
Featured stories, events, and other content by the Aalto Networking Platform.
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.
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?
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 Digital Creatives afterwork and info session
Aalto Digital Creatives programme continues the series of open afterwork sessions and warmly welcomes creative industry students, researchers and practitioners to join the next event.
Artificial Creativity – Aalto LASER Talks
Is artificial intelligence simply a tool, or does it possess creative capabilities?
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Related news
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Bringing human touch back to industrial settings – 5 things we should know about Industry 5.0
Integrating digital twins and extended reality (XR) technologies leads to smarter, more adaptable industrial operations, says Doctoral researcher Xinyi Tu.
Sushant Passi: In the future, we will see human-to-human interaction as a luxury
'In 2050, we will be likely be promoting human to human interaction. It is now perhaps getting a bit sidelined, but it is irreplaceable.'
Finding love: Study reveals where love lives in the brain
Researchers from Aalto University utilised functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity while subjects mulled brief stories related to six different types of love.
Semi-Summer jobs introduce the semiconductor industry to students
Semiconductors play a crucial role in many parts of modern technology. So-called "Semi-Summer jobs" at Aalto University serve as a concrete example of a research and education partnership between the Aalto schools of technology and businesses in the semiconductor industry.Key research areas
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