Brain and mind
Topic: neuroscience and medical technology
Language: Finnish
In our workshop, you will get to explore Aalto University's brain research laboratories and also measure the activity of the brain, nervous system, and heart yourself.
Workshops
You will select your workshops during the second stage of the registration process, when asked to confirm your attendance.
Please note that each university offers workshops corresponding to its own studies options. Therefore, feel free to explore the workshop offerings of all campuses.
2027 Aalto University's workshops
Can a Ring Learn Your Moves? Build an AI Wearable
Topic: open-source wearable technology, miniature sensors, data and AI
Language: English
Participants will use SensWear to explore how a wearable measures movement and how a simple AI model can learn to recognize gestures.
Electric person
Topic: electrical engineering and automation
Language: bilingual (Finnish/English)
In the workshop, we will learn about measuring electrical signals from the heart and muscles, sensations caused by electrical currents, and how these phenomena can be modeled using computer simulations – all through practical demonstrations.
Everything on sound and acoustics
Topic: acoustics and audio technology
Language: bilingual (Finnish/English)
The acoustics workshop offers an introduction to Aalto's acoustics laboratory and its ongoing research.
Feel good materials
Topic: sustainable materials for buildings
Language: English
In this workshop, we work with our hands to create "feel-good materials" from natural clay and biofibers.
Light up your life with touch
Topic: basic coding for Arduino
Language: English
Attendees will work in small groups to learn the basics of how to code for Arduino to control touch-responsive lights.
Marvelous Materials
Topic: renewable materials
Language: bilingual (Finnish/English)
Participants will experiment with creating bio-based materials and designing products from them.
Offshore wind on cold seas
Topic: arctic technology and ice mechanics
Language: bilingual (Finnish/English)
In this workshop, you will conduct material tests on ice to understand how ice breaks when it impacts different structure types. You will also see how various offshore wind turbine structures break ice in model-scale tests.
What's Hiding Inside? Disassembling End-of-Life Electronics
Topic: electronic devices and their components and materials
Language: bilingual (Finnish/English)
In this fun hands-on workshop, you’ll get to take apart end-of-life electronic devices and discover the surprising components and materials inside
2027 LUT Univeristy's workshops
Circular Economy of Phones
Topic: sustainability science and solutions
Language: Finnish
In this environmental technology workshop, we will step into the shoes of a product developer.
Digital Design Meets 3D Printing
Topic: mechanical engineering
Language: English
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll design and 3D-print your own creation!
The Duck Factory
Topic: industrial engineering and management
Language: Finnish
"The Duck Factory" is a hands-on workshop that explores production planning and control by simulating industrial production with Lego brick structures.
From ideas to products
Topic: product development
Language: Finnish
At the LUT students' prototype workshop in the J. Hyneman Center, you can design and implement your own product.
Microplastics
Topic: chemical engineering
Language: Finnish
What does microplastic actually look like under a microscope? And how much of it ends up on sandy beaches? In this workshop, you’ll get to investigate environmental samples like a real scientist!
2027 Univeristy of Oulu's workshops
By-products from Green Steel Making
Topic: knowledge of material structure
Language: Finnish
On metallurgical research knowledge of structure is essential. In this workshop you can familiarize yourself with preparation of microscope samples and use of optical microscope.
Can AI See Your Heartbeat?
Topic: computer vision, signal processing, deep learning and contactless human sensing
Language: English
In this hands-on workshop, participants will build a small Python-based prototype using a laptop webcam and learn how computer vision, digital signal processing and deep learning can reveal subtle physiological information hidden in video.
Clean water through photocatalysis
Subject: good water quality and photocatalysis
Language: Finnish
In this workshop, you will learn about water quality, pollution, and treatment methods.
Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence
Subject: AI
Language: Finnish
In this workshop, you will dive into the world of data analytics and artificial intelligence, where vast amounts of data are transformed into useful information and intelligent services.
Glowstick - assemble and program your own
Topic: programming, electronics, digital manufacturing
Language: Finnish
Explore digital manufacturing at Super Fab Lab Oulu!
Human body twin laboratory and Health Kiosk: self-measurement point
Subject: Medicine
Language: Finnish
In this workshop presenting multidisciplinary research, students will have the opportunity to explore realistic human models we have developed in the laboratory. Participants will learn how the models can be used in research on current and future health monitoring and diagnostic devices.
Impact Attenuator Design and Testing – Formula Student Oulu
Subject: mechanical engineering, structural engineering, crash safety, product development
Language: Finnish
In this workshop, you get to design, build, and crash-test a race car's impact attenuator prototype under the guidance of the Formula Student Oulu team!
Learn about cybersecurity testing
Topic: cybersecutiry
Language: Finnish
The workshop goes through the basics of cybersecurity testing on the Hack the Box platform.
LEGO-car: program and solve the route to the finish
Topic: programming, automation, robotics
Language: Finnish
In this workshop, you will program a LEGO car to move on its own by following different instructions.
Low-carbon cement
Topic: fibre and particle technology
Language: English
Come and learn how circular economy and industrial by-products can offer concrete solutions to combat climate change in cement production.
Make your own polymer
Topic: polymer chemistry
Language: Finnish
In this workshop, you will get to explore polymer chemistry and make your own polymer.
Making Indoor Air Visible
Topic: explore indoor environmental measurements and discover why they matter for good indoor air quality
Language: Finnish
How can we make visible from the invisible? How do we measure indoor air quality?
Join the workshop and get hands-on experience with a surface moisture meter, a thermometer and a thermal imaging camera. You will also get to explore what indoor microbes and chemical compounds look like.
Virtual Reality On Your Own Phone (with VR Cardboards)
Topic: virtual reality, games
Language: English
Experience virtual reality (VR) using nothing more than your own smartphone!
A microscopic journey to the heart of electronics
Topic: microelectronics
Language: Finnish
Embark on a discovery expedition into the microscopic world and see what real devices and components look like on the inside!
Where should a new road or bridge be built?
Topic: road and transport planning
Language: Finnish
Why are roads and bridges built in certain locations? In this workshop, you will design a new road or bridge connection using maps and terrain data.
2027 Tampere University's workshops
Build a Berry Solar Cell and Test Its Performance
Topic: dye-sensitized solar cells, renewable energy, and photochemistry
Language: Finnish
How can berry pigments generate electricity? In this hands-on workshop, you will build your own berry-sensitized solar cell and explore how natural dyes can convert sunlight into electrical energy.
Build Your Own Electronics
Topic: electric engineering
Language: bilingual (Finnish/English)
Explore the fascinating world of electronics! In this workshop, you will build an electronic device on a prototyping board, and measure and observe it using tools such as a multimeter and an oscilloscope.
Can your business idea hold up, sustainably?
Topic: sustainability, technology, and business
Language: bilingual (Finnish/English)
In this workshop, you will develop your own business solution to a current sustainability challenge.
The construction industry changes the world
Topic: sustainable development, technology, creativity, human-centered design.
Language: Finnish
The construction industry is much more than just a worksite and a hard hat! It is an industry where sustainable development, technology, creativity, and human-centered design all come together.
Electron microscope as an extension of the eyes - How does the world on a nanoscale look like?
Topic: electron microscopy
Language: bilingual (Finnish/English)
The workshop includes demonstrations of electron microscope techniques and equipment as well as research examples.
Hydrogels and crosslinking methods
Topic: biomedical engineering, biomaterials
Language: bilingual (Finnish/English)
The woorkshop offers possibility to familiarize yourself with hydrogels and their crosslinking methods from both theoretical and experimental perspectives.