Aalto University was founded in 2010 as Helsinki University of Technology, the Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki were merged. The university is a multidisciplinary community where science and art meet technology and business, committed to identifying and solving major societal challenges and building an innovative future.
We are building competitive edge by combining knowledge from different disciplines to identify and solve complex challenges, and to educate future visionaries and experts.
Organisation
We educate game-changers to solve grand challenges and to create well-being in society. This requires disciplinary excellence combining creativity, collaboration, and entrepreneurship.
Aalto University is an internationally unique combination of fields where science and art meet business and technology. The university has seven key research areas which relate to promoting and maintaining Finnish competitiveness and welfare through renewal and entrepreneurship:
ICT and digitalisation
Materials and sustainable use of natural resources
Art and design knowledge building
Global business dynamics.
Advanced energy solutions
Human-centred living environments
Health and wellbeing
Aalto as an Employer
Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet technology and business. People are the ones who create Aalto: they enable world class research, provide pioneering education, create trend-setting art and empower society-renewing collaboration. Join our international community!