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Support for those suffering from the consequences of the earthquake in Morocco and Storm Daniel

How the university can support staff and students in dealing with the crisis, and how you can help the victims of the earthquake and storm
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Over 80 percent of the campus's energy savings goal has been achieved

During the summer, too, the campus has achieved significant energy savings.
Campus
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University’s important management actions gathered in annual clock 2024

The annual clock 2024 supports university’s management and decision-making.
For Aalto community
University
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Register for training in research data management and open science

New topics included! Registrations for autumn 2023 are open.
Research & Art
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RDM & Open Science training

Aalto University graduates valued in the job market

Nationwide career monitoring survey started on 2 October. All 2018 master's graduates and 2020 doctoral graduates are invited to participate in the survey.
Studies
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Unite! Student Festival in Lisbon was packed with learning, community-building, and fun

20 students from Aalto took part in the Unite! Student Festival.
Studies
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20 students from Aalto University at the Unite! Student Festival in Lisbon.

Does ChatGPT make us lazy?

FCAI hosted a discussion on using ChatGPT for research at Tiedekulma in August.
Research & Art
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Suggest how you would use 13,000 eur for the wellbeing of Aalto University students!

Submit your proposal by September 29, 2023, for a participatory budgeting project to improve student wellbeing on campus. A winner will be voted on from the feasible ideas within the year 2023.
Campus, University
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Language guidelines to be finalised in autumn

Thank you to everyone who commented on the drafts!
For Aalto community
University
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Schedule your autumn My Dialogues conversation

Check out these key tips for having a quality 1-1 discussion.
For Aalto community
University
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New loss mitigation technique paves the way for perfect optical resonators

Aalto researchers demonstrate how to create high-quality resonators using optically absorbing materials
Press releases
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Seed funding call for major interdisciplinary research proposal planning is open

Aalto internal seed funding is targeted for the preparation of major interdisciplinary consortia proposals seeking funding from external funding agencies or industry. The internal funding call closes 15th of October 2023.
For Aalto community
Research & Art, Studies
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Aalto community members awarded for their impressive work

The recognition awards were granted to researchers from the Department of Applied Physics, the creators of Little Finlandia, the student Wappu, the quality audit team, and projects Kielibuusti, Finland Works, and Finland Studies – watch the videos and the recordings!
Awards and Recognition, University
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Recipients of Aalto Awards on Aalto Day One 2023

New academic year kicked off

Aalto Day One highlighted the community’s diversity and internationality
University
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Akateeminen kulkue matkalla lukuvuoden avajaisseremoniaan. Edessä Ida Parkkinen ja Ilkka Niemelä

New Aalto Distinguished Professor Riitta Salmelin traces the brain’s own ‘fingerprint’

Riitta Salmelin believes that her field of brain imaging has matured to a stage where questions ignored in the early days can now be addressed
Appointments, Campus, Research & Art, University
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Ilkka Niemelä to the Finnish Government: Innovations and sustainable growth will be lost if immigration policies are implemented

Internationality has accelerated innovation and helped many Finnish companies from Aalto along their growth trajectories. Nearly half of Aalto University’s academic staff come from outside Finland, and Aalto students are from more than 100 countries.
Press releases, University
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Ilkka Niemelä in his official black ceremony clothes giving speech

Tiny organisms, big discoveries: How swarming shrimp could influence a new wave of ‘mesorobotics’

Aalto researcher aims to understand the complex movement of brine shrimp—a gateway to physics on an unfamiliar scale
Press releases
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Assistant Professor Matilda Backholm looks at shrimp via a screen connected to a microscope.

Lassi Haaranen appointed as Vice Head of Diversity at the Department of Computer Science

‘These issues are crucial for the wellbeing of our students, faculty and staff,’ says Lassi Haaranen
Appointments
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Lassi Haaranen in the office, leaning at desk

ACRE donated Lego bricks to the daycares

Aalto University and Aalto University Campus & Real Estate (ACRE) donated the university's old Lego bricks to Touhula daycares.
Campus
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Next steps for the EU’s AI Act: towards enabling regulation

The EU’s AI Act should provide technology-neutral regulation and support for R&D, say researchers at the Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Research & Art
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Illustration of a blue-and-white robotic hand holding a hologram of a scale