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Career Design for Alumni
The future of work calls for experimentation and lifewide learning for designing a meaningful career path.
Lifewide learning
Welcome to the path of lifewide learning! A leap into the unforeseen takes courage, but at Aalto University, you are not alone. We will guide you and help you recognise your learning needs to ensure that you always have the skills that set you a step ahead.
Aalto University Open University
Open University courses are open to everyone regardless of background or age. Open University offers individual courses in Business, Technology, Languages, and Art and Design. Students are admitted to individual courses in the order of registration.
FITech Network University
Study courses organised by Finnish universities of technology free of charge. Courses are aimed at all Finns and permanent residents of Finland.
MOOC online courses open to everyone
Develop your future skills at Aalto University with courses and certificates. The Future of Work courses offer perspectives on the future of work, tips for shaping your own career and navigation support for Finnish working life. With the Starting up online course, you can complete the basic studies of start-up entrepreneurship.
Future of Work
Making sense of the future of work can feel tricky in the middle of a constant information overflow. In this course, we will look at how the roles of the individual, organisations and society have changed and how it affects how we work today and in the future.
Design a Meaningful Career
In this course, we will look at how you can creatively shape your career as you go in the radically changing world of work. We will focus on meaningful work as a core element of career sustainability and explore ways to design a value-driven path.
Finland works
In this course, we will look at how to navigate Finnish working life and how to build a career. We explore working life in Finland from societal, organisational and individual perspectives.
Starting Up
The open access online course covers the fundamentals of startup entrepreneurship. Learn to think like an entrepreneur and to solve real-world problems by creating something new.
Diving into radical creativity
This course offers essential skills for the modern workplace and is ideal for changemakers in all areas of life. You’ll learn why radical creativity is important and how to develop it at the individual, team, and organizational levels. The course covers radical creativity across multidisciplinary fields of innovation, including business, technology, art, and design. By the end of this course, you’ll understand what radical creativity is and know how to apply it.
Join events
Every year, Aalto University and its partners organise hundreds of events open to alumni and partners, many of them also online.
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