Current Topics for Future Needs
Aalto EE’s online courses provide an inspiring and flexible way to strengthen your business, leadership, and professional skills at every stage of your career. Learn about current topics at your own pace — with insights you can apply directly in your work.
Our courses are designed in collaboration with experts from Aalto University and are based on the latest research. The wide selection covers key areas of business management, including leadership, finance, marketing, and sales, as well as a growing range of specialized topics such as self-leadership, data and AI, project management, and risk management.
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Alex - Aalto Learning Experience
The world is evolving, ans so is the way we learn. Alex platform - The Aalto Learning Experience by Aalto EE - is built for curious minds, ambitious professionals and forward-thinking organizations who want to develop real, validated skills that have impact.
Business and Innovation
Estimated study time: 27 hours
This online course equips creative professionals from different fields with the knowledge and tools to commercialize their work. Throughout the course, you will explore the unique challenges of the creative industry, learn how to build a strong brand, and develop a sustainable business model.
Fee: € 150 (+VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 54 hours
This online course offers an easy access way to get a concise overview of Design Thinking. By taking this course, you will learn the human-centric process of Design Thinking and acquire tools for all its phases. You can choose to take the course either in English or Finnish.
Fee: € 350 (+VAT)
Recommended schedule: 4–5 hours per week, for 12–18 weeks
Schedule Recommended schedule: 4–5 hours per week, for 12–18 weeks
Location E-learning environment
This online course gives you a 360-degree view of innovation and service design. It supports developing an innovative mindset and a service design culture in your organization.
Fee: € 720 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 81 hours
This online course introduces you to the first steps of the design-driven foresight process. The course focuses on how individuals and teams can build a repository of materials, information, and findings that signal future developments in a chosen industry.
Fee: € 350 (+VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 12 hours
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 12 hours
Location E-learning environment
In this online course, you will focus on marketing strategies, segmentation, targeting, and positioning, integrated marketing communications, proactive value-based selling, structured influencing, contemporary sales approaches, and personal selling skills.
Fee: € 200 (+ VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 10 hours
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 10 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course focuses on the interphase between different organizations and ways to manage it. The course will take you through a journey that covers the understanding of what is Supply Chain Management. Course language: English
Fee: € 200 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course is designed to provide professionals with practical and theoretical knowledge in innovation management and measurement. By mastering these concepts, you will be better equipped to navigate the complexities of innovation within your organization and drive real-world impact.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course provides an overview of the changing landscape of foresight, design, and its intersection with sustainability. You will study the key characteristics of design-driven foresight, learn how to work with the key components of foresight, and anticipate future trends and developments through innovative thinking.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
Study time: 1h 15 minutes
Schedule Study time: 1h 15 minutes
Location E-learning environment
With this Master Class recording, you will explore various ways to address language-related challenges in organizations. This training will give you ready-to-use tools for implementing multilingual practices and supporting language learning within your work community.
Fee: 50 € (+ VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 54 hours
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 54 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course offers an easy access way to get a concise overview of Design Thinking. By taking this course, you will learn the human-centric process of Design Thinking and acquire tools for all its phases. You can choose to take the course either in English or Finnish.
Fee: € 350 (+VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 12 hours
The online course will help you better understand and analyse recent developments in service management. You will gain a powerful tool for generating new ideas and implementing a customer-centric business strategy, as well as a cost-effective and flexible way to build and deepen your service management knowledge and skills.
Fee: € 200 (+ VAT)
Data, Analytics, AI, and Digital Transformation
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course explores the human-centered approach in the deployment of AI, focusing on its transformative potential and the critical role of individuals and organizations in managing its impact. The course aims to equip participants with the knowledge and skills to implement AI in ways that are ethical, effective, and centered around people.
Fee: € 150 (+VAT)
Study time: 2 hours
Schedule Study time: 2 hours
Location E-learning environment
This Master Class recording will broaden your understanding of cognitive automation, its impact on your organization, and its far-reaching implications for knowledge work.
Fee: € 50 (+ VAT)
Study time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Schedule Study time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Location E-learning environment
This Master Class recording will demystify the Industrial Metaverse and demonstrate its transformative potential within the context of Industry 5.0 - a vision for a human-centered, sustainable, and resilient industrial landscape.
Fee: 50 € (+VAT)
Study time: 2 hours
Schedule Study time: 2 hours
Location E-learning environment
This two-hour recording will dive deep into digital twins, the ongoing revolution in asset-centric information management. In this Master Class, you will understand what digital twins are, where they are going, and why they are essential for your organization.
Fee: € 50 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 12 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 12 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course assists the user in understanding the fundamentals of data and analytics and how to use this tool in decision-making.
Fee: € 350 (+VAT)
Lessons running time approx. 100 minutes.
Schedule Lessons running time approx. 100 minutes.
Location E-learning environment
The course gives you a concise understanding of information visualization, why it is needed, and how to get started. It helps you to initiate your visualization and prompts you to pursue your task with adept advice. Course language: English
Fee: € 350 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 12 hours
This course offers you a clear and science-based look into how AI works and how it is used in various contexts, focusing on the principles behind it and its practical uses. You will gain a solid understanding of the core concepts of AI to comprehend its mechanisms and potential. Course language: English
Fee: € 350 (+VAT)
Engineering and Industrial Systems
Estimated study time: 54 hours
This online course concentrates mainly on three-phase converters used in power electronics. It covers various converter types, including ac-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac converters, and emphasizes the underlying principles that distinguish them.
Fee: € 800 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 54 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 54 hours
Location E-learning environment
This program is designed for professionals, engineers, and students who want to strengthen their knowledge of electricity distribution systems and how they are planned, operated, and optimized. The course introduces the essential concepts and tools used in electricity distribution planning, with a focus on medium- and low-voltage networks, substations, and the operational devices that keep the grid reliable.
Fee: € 300 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
Learn how to make better decisions with mathematical modelling. This self-paced online course introduces the principles of optimisation and their practical applications in real-world contexts such as transport, health, and energy. You will explore linear, integer, and nonlinear optimisation, develop skills to model complex problems, and understand what “optimal” truly means in decision-making.
Fee: € 150 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 54 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 54 hours
Location E-learning environment
This program is a set of two online courses, the first focusing on wood structure and anatomy, and the second focusing on wood properties.
Fee: € 250 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
This course presents the structure of wood material, including macroscopic features such as earlywood, latewood, heartwood, sapwood, and knots. Additionally, wood formation and the basic cell types are presented, as well as the main structural constituents of wood: lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
This course links the basic anatomical features of wood, such as grain orientation and knots, to its properties relevant in the built environment.
Fee: €150 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 54 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 54 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course will equip you with the latest insights and practical tools to enhance project efficiency, improve construction quality, and gain a competitive edge. You will explore strategies for addressing productivity challenges in the construction sector, including lean principles and digital solutions that streamline project management, improve quality, and reduce project timelines.
Fee: € 300 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 10 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 10 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course presents you with the different approaches to, cases, and applications of communicative urban mobility planning. The course is built for urban mobility and transportation professionals, urban planners, and other professionals in public and private sectors working in urban mobility and transportation planning at any stage of their career.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 54 hours
This online course explores the fundamentals of power electronics, providing you with the groundwork to comprehend the essential principles driving modern technology. You will gain the necessary knowledge to effectively shape and utilize electronic systems for the future.
Fee: € 800 (+ VAT)
Study time: 2 hours
Schedule Study time: 2 hours
Location Online
This two-hour Aalto EE Master Class delves into the principles and applications of System Dynamics as a modelling tool. After this Master Class, you will have a basic understanding of how to model dynamic systems and how they can be applied in the engineering and manufacturing space.
Fee: € 50 (+ VAT)
Finance and Compliance
Estimated Study Time: 30 minutes
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 30 minutes
Location E-learning environment: License for three (3) months starting from the order date.
Every private person, civil servant, politician and business employee can promote anti-corruption activities and fair competition through their own activities. Responsible business is expected from companies, both on the part of employees and stakeholders. This online course will help you understand what corruption, bribery and fair competition mean and what their harmful effects are in society. You will get extensive information about the different forms of corruption and get to know illustrative examples.
Fee: € 100 (+ VAT)
Study time apprx. 25 min.
Schedule Study time apprx. 25 min.
Location E-learning environment. License for three (3) months starting from the order date.
This online course on information security data protection will present the events that took place in the Nordic countries at the end of 2023 and offer practical tips on how to operate in the online world. The course covers topics such as what to do in the event of a cyber-attack, how a large-scale phishing attack unfolds, and who in the company is ultimately responsible for cybersecurity issues.
Fee: € 100 (+ VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 12 hours
A cost-effective and flexible online course on basic financial and management accounting. The course introduces basic financial and management accounting. During the course, you will learn everything experts and management need to know about financial matters.
Fee: € 200 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 81 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 81 hours
Location E-learning environment
This course provides a multi-disciplinary and holistic overview of information security management. It is designed based on scientific and practical evidence, and the topic areas are approached from technical, social, organizational, and ethical perspectives.
Fee: € 300 (+VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 30 minutes
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 30 minutes
Location E-learning environment
This online course introduces you to the fundamental concepts of risk management practice. By taking this course, you will quickly get an idea of risk management and its practical key concepts.
Fee: € 80 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 54 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 54 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course offers a structured introduction to buy-side due diligence, covering the main perspectives - commercial, financial, ESG, tax, and legal. Each type of due diligence sheds light on a different dimension of company value, and together they form a holistic view that is essential for sound investment decisions. By understanding how these perspectives fit together, learners will gain an integrated picture of how due diligence informs strategy and deal-making.
Fee: € 300 (+VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 25 minutes
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 25 minutes
Location E-learning environment
This online course will help you understand what corruption, bribery and fair competition are and their harmful effects on society. You will gain a broad understanding of the different forms of corruption and be introduced to illustrative examples.
Estimated Study Time: 1 hour
This online course introduces you to risk management from a management perspective. During the course, you will learn the risk management process, concepts, and best practices in a compact package. Course language: English
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 12 hours
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 12 hours
Location E-learning environment
A cost-effective and flexible online course on basic financial and management accounting. The course introduces basic financial and management accounting. During the course, you will learn everything experts and management need to know about financial matters.
Fee: € 200 (+ VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 25 minutes
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 25 minutes
Location E-learning environment: License for three (3) months starting from the order date.
This online course is tailored for professionals in the insurance and financial sectors who aim to deepen their knowledge of statutory social security for individual and corporate clients, enhance their ability to discuss social security matters and offer complementary service solutions alongside statutory coverage.
Fee: € 100 (+ VAT) / € 900 (+ VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 30 minutes
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 30 minutes
Location E-learning environment: License for three (3) months starting from the order date.
This online course is a practical presentation on whistleblowing and the basics of the Whistleblower Protection Act. The course helps you understand which violations are involved in reporting abuses, which are internal, and which are centralized reporting channels. The course explains the prerequisites for whistleblower protection and the sanctions that may result from violating the regulations.
Fee: € 100 (+ VAT) / € 900 (+ VAT)
Leadership, Organizations, and Change
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course explores the core principles of creative teamwork and provides practical tools to enhance collaboration in your organization. Through research-based insights and real-world examples, you’ll learn how team dynamics, diverse group compositions, and supportive environments drive creativity and innovation.
Fee: € 150 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course explores the complexities of diversity management and inclusion, helping you understand their vital role in creating a positive workplace culture. Throughout the course, you will gain insights into how to effectively implement inclusive practices in your organization.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
This practical, research-based online course helps you lead and support organizational change in uncertain and complex environments. It equips you with the tools, mindsets, and frameworks to navigate transformation from multiple perspectives.
Fee: € 150 (+VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 15 hours
A cost-effective and flexible online course offers you a unique insight into the innovation leadership mindset and concepts.
Fee: € 350 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course provides tools to critically assess your role in shaping organizational culture and understanding its impact on company success.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course equips you with the skills to set, track, and achieve measurable objectives, ensuring operational excellence.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
Personal Development
Estimated study time: 27 hours
The course is crafted to help you navigate the complexities of modern career dynamics. Through a blend of creative thinking and practical strategies, you’ll learn how to build a career path that resonates with your personal values and goals. Explore the power of narrative, the pursuit of meaningful work, and the role of creativity in career design, all presented in an engaging and accessible format.
Fee: 0 €
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course creates a framework for personal growth by providing practical tools for improving self-leadership and an entrepreneurial mindset.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 54 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 54 hours
Location Self-paced online studies combined with team meetings (live online or as agreed)
During this online course, you will be provided with practical tools that help improve your resilience and help you succeed in your personal and professional life. You will get a chance to progress through the learning journey together with your team members and our educator.
Fee: € 990 (+ VAT) per person
Estimated Study Time: 12 hours
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 12 hours
Location E-learning environment
In the online course, you will learn about emotional intelligence and why it is generally considered a predictor of potential and performance. You will learn how emotional intelligence affects individual performance, team performance, and organisational climate. You will also learn about concepts and get tools to help you improve your emotional intelligence.
Fee: € 350 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
The landscape of work has been evolving for years, with the pandemic accelerating these changes. Navigating the future of work can be overwhelming, but this course, backed by academic research, helps make sense of it all. It offers curated insights in an accessible format, exploring how individuals, organizations, and society are adapting—and what it means for work today and in the future.
Fee: 0 €
Estimated Study Time: 12 hours
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 12 hours
Location E-learning environment
The online course is designed for people who want to develop their presentation skills and learn how to design and deliver effective presentations in their professional life.
Fee: € 350 (+ VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 8 hours
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 8 hours
Location E-learning environment
Projektinhallinnan verkkokurssi is an online course that gives you basic information on understanding projects, project management, and methods for implementing a successful project. Course language: Finnish
Fee: € 350 (+ VAT)
Estimated Study Time: 30 minutes
Schedule Estimated Study Time: 30 minutes
Location E-learning environment: License for three (3) months starting from the order date.
This online course equips you and your company’s staff with the skills to handle potential violence and threat situations during customer interactions, whether in person, over the phone, or online. After completing the course, you will understand how to prepare for threats, respond effectively during such situations, and take appropriate actions afterward. Course language: Finnish
Fee: € 100 (+ VAT) / € 900 (+ VAT)
Sustainability and Green Transition
Estimated study time: 54 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 54 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course offers a comprehensive overview of battery technology, equipping you with the knowledge to contribute to sustainable energy solutions. By exploring various aspects of batteries, including raw materials and recycling technologies, you’ll gain valuable insights into the processes that power our world.
Fee: € 300 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 54 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 54 hours
Location E-learning environment
This self-paced online course covers basic concepts of sustainability, sustainable development, bioeconomy, and circular economy. Considering a value chain perspective, from the source of material all the way to the end-of-life management of the final product.
Fee: € 300 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
During this self-paced online course, participants will learn about climate change and its impact on the built environment and human health. This forward-thinking course encourages learners to not only understand the challenges we are facing but also to reflect on how we can reduce negative climate impacts and support the well-being of all life on this planet.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 81 hours
This online course is designed for professionals, and anyone interested in understanding the role of hydrogen in the global shift toward sustainable energy. It offers a comprehensive introduction to hydrogen technologies, applications, business opportunities, and policy frameworks shaping the future of the energy sector.
Fee: € 900 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 54 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 54 hours
Location E-learning environment
Material Engineering for a Circular Future is an online course that equips professionals with the tools to assess and improve material circularity. Across six modules, learners explore recycling, repurposing, cascading, biodegradability, and alternative material design, while understanding the environmental and societal impacts of material choices. The course is ideal for engineers, designers, sustainability specialists, and educators advancing circular economy practices.
Fee: € 300 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 10 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 10 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course provides different approaches to Carbon Smart Urban Green Infrastructure. During the course, you will reflect on Urban Mobility Challenges and grasp the context and bigger picture of Urban Mobility, the built environment, and green infrastructure.
Fee: € 150 (+ VAT)
Estimated study time: 81-135 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 81-135 hours
Location E-learning environment
This online course equips you with the tools needed to analyze and reduce the carbon footprint throughout a building’s lifecycle. It helps you lead the change towards carbon-neutral construction and navigate the changing regulatory requirements in the European Union.
Fee: € 500-800 (+VAT)
Estimated study time: 27 hours
Schedule Estimated study time: 27 hours
Location E-learning environment
This course offers a comprehensive overview of how the seas are used across different domains. It is open to anyone interested in maritime operations and their broader significance, regardless of background. Core topics include maritime economics, sustainability, safety, and selected technical areas. The course highlights how responsible and innovative use of the seas can support societal needs and global development, with a focus on marine technology and regulation in promoting sustainable blue growth.
Fee: € 150 (+VAT)
Customized Online Programs
Our online courses can also be used to build study units that support the strategic goals of an organization or team. We co-design impactful, fully online programs with our customers. The virtual programs utilize Aalto EE’s existing/topical online courses. The program outcome and the impact of the participant’s learning experience will be enhanced by tailoring various learning elements around the online courses, e.g., live webinars, assignments between the online modules, online check-ups with the program director and the program director faculty, and small group discussions.
For
Our online courses are designed for executives, managers, and professionals who value flexibility in learning and completing their studies. They provide development opportunities for individuals, teams, and organizations alike. They correspond in a variety of ways with the development of new knowledge and skills, for example, in the following situations:
For individuals
- applying for a new job and wanting to update their knowledge on the basics of leadership.
- tasked with developing new services or innovations and needing the tools to do so.
- having responsibilities for strategic change projects and wanting a comprehensive package to help them succeed.
For teams
- where each member must update their skills to leverage the customer and user-driven design process in developing new services.
- with members unfamiliar with the definition of data and the principles of its analysis, wanting to stay up to date on this topic and complete the course together in preparation for future challenges.
For organizations
- where a successful strategy requires the development of value-based thinking in marketing and sales. Completing the online course prepares executives to create marketing and sales projects supporting the strategy.
- scarcing financial resources challenge the profitability of an organization, and knowledge of the basics of economics requires reinforcement.
- where executives and unit managers need to be coached now, at the very latest, to lead change through operations globally. A need has been identified, and a change management course supporting self-development is being sought, which can be included as a part of a broader coaching program, if necessary.
Benefits
Individual
- Gain an understanding of the key themes that every leader must master in a rapidly changing business environment
- Learn basic concepts and tools on each topic and will be able to lead people and projects better
- Gain ideas and different perspectives that directly affect your work and organization
Organization
- Get the means to promote the independent study and development of your employees
- Implement the diversity of training packages through independently taken online courses
- Support your employees' means of influencing job success through easily applicable frameworks, skills, and workbooks
Participating
Online courses can be completed one at a time according to your needs. An online course helps you learn the methods and frameworks you can use in your work immediately. All our online courses include videos, reading, and exercises. You can track your development through tests and reflection exercises. Some courses include a workbook to help you practice and apply what you have learned to real business challenges and projects.
Successful completion of the course leads to a certificate that works as evidence of your skills and knowledge. You can complete the course at your own pace; the license is valid for eight (8) weeks to three (3) months from the order date, depending on the course scope. Our courses are implemented through the Aalto EE e-learning environment. You will get the link to the online course right after registration.
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