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57-607: Much of the university's Otaniemi campus was designed by Alvar Aalto . In 1849, TKK was established in Helsinki by the decree of the Russian Emperor Nicholas I , Grand Duke of Finland as a "manufacture and handicraft school", with the name Helsingin teknillinen reaalikoulu/Helsingfors tekniska realskola , along with two other similar schools, situated in Vaasa and Turku . The school started its function in

114-791: A bachelor's degree; a student might only be accepted to study for the Master's level degree. TKK required a bachelor's degree from foreign students studying in English, because only Master's studies were offered completely in English. Apart from numerous programs in Finnish language, various international Master's programs were offered exclusively for studies in English. The university was organized in four faculties, each consisting of departments and separate laboratories, and separate units not operating under any faculty. Additionally, TKK participated in various joint units with other Finnish universities and

171-469: A high standard in international comparison. The campus contains the former student union building and convention centre Dipoli , named as the second Poli , the second building of the polytechnic students. The original first building being located formerly in the Helsinki centre. Dipoli was designed by Reima and Raili Pietilä and was completed in 1966. However, in 1993 the building was transformed into

228-517: A host of other cutting-edge technology clusters, including mobility-based software and web-ware, as well as nanotechnology , microelectronics and quantum technology . Major companies that have sites in Otaniemi are for instance Tieto and Pöyry . The Finnish Customs laboratory is located in Otaniemi. The district of Otaniemi also includes the area of Keilaniemi , which contains the head offices of Fortum , Neste and Kone . In December 2007

285-537: A maximum of 12 living scientific and scholarly academicians and eight living artistic academicians. The number of foreign academicians is not limited. The Academicians do not have any organizational connection to the Academy of Finland, although this was the requisite for membership in 1947–1969. Personnel funded by the Research Council can use the title referring to it, e.g. distinguished professors funded by

342-524: A pile of rocks dating from the Bronze Age (also called "the grave of the primordial teekkari "), about 3000 years old. Graves of this kind have apparently also been built as memorial for the disappeared, because no bones of the dead were found from this pile. The graves were apparently built on islets, which the Jämeräntaival hill also used to be. Ancient fishermen were active in the area because

399-570: A professorship in biochemistry at TKK. More recently, the university has notably invested in the research of nanotechnology, operating the largest cleanroom facility in Northern Europe and of the largest microscopy clusters in Europe. The Nokia Research Center has operated a "lablet" on university premises since 2008, in order to establish joint research programs and daily interaction between Nokia and university researchers, who would share

456-443: A team of students smuggled a statue of Paavo Nurmi onto the 300-year-old wreck of Regalskeppet Vasa just days before its lifting from the bottom of the sea. The Student Union of Helsinki University of Technology ( TKY , Finnish : Teknillisen korkeakoulun ylioppilaskunta , Swedish : Tekniska högskolans studentkår ) was the interest group for the students of the university. In 2006 it had 11,187 members, which included all

513-463: A training centre of the university. The ownership of the property was later transferred from the student union to the university itself, due to high maintenance costs. It is regularly used for conventions, congresses and student parties. In addition to the student union TKK students have formed numerous associations for studies, cultural activity and sports. In 2007, there were some 150 associations maintained by university students. In 2006, two-thirds of

570-584: Is a district of Espoo , Finland . It is located near the border of Helsinki , the capital of Finland. Otaniemi is located on the southern shore of the Laajalahti bay, next to the district of Tapiola near the border to Helsinki . It is part of the Greater Tapiola major district. Otaniemi and Tapiola are separated by the Ring I beltway. The Aalto University metro station , located in Otaniemi,

627-547: Is a tribute to Alvar Aalto , a prominent architect known for his achievements in technology, economics, and art. Otaniemi is also the location of the Border and Coast Guard Academy. Until 2008, the officer school of the Police College of Finland was also located there. Otaniemi is home to many of Finland's research and development organizations: The most prominent institutions for science and engineering in Otaniemi are

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684-682: Is at the core of Finnish scientific and technological activities. Preparations for the move of the Helsinki University of Technology from the Hietalahdentori square in Helsinki started in the turn of the 1940s and 1950s. Construction of the Teekkarikylä student residence started in 1950. Its first houses, designed by Heikki and Kaija Siren were built in May 1952. Construction materials included bricks that had been taken from

741-562: Is connected by a 15-minute bus ride to the center of Helsinki. TKK was known for its active student community and technology students ( teekkari s) are highly noticeable, as they wear a distinctive hat and often brightly colored overalls to many of their public events. The community has also organised important charity events ( tempaus in local language). TKK students are also famous for, and Finland's leading practitioners of, student pranks ( jäynä ), similar in principle to MIT hacks . Their most widely publicised stunt took place in 1961, when

798-738: The 2017 municipal elections , the Liberal Party won one council seat in Espoo; in there, the party's support was greatest in Otaniemi, where it received 6.6 percent of the vote. On 1 January 2010, Otaniemi became home to Aalto University , formed from the merger of the Helsinki University of Technology, the University of Art and Design Helsinki , and the Helsinki School of Economics . Art and business teaching has been gradually moved from Aalto's Helsinki locations to Otaniemi. The name

855-556: The Domus Litonii ("Litonius house") building located at Aleksanterinkatu 50, which had been designed by Gustaf Paulus Leander and completed in 1847, and remains in use and in ownership by the Litonius family to this day. In 1872, the school's name was changed to Polyteknillinen koulu/Polytekniska skolan ("Polytechnical School") and in 1878, to Polyteknillinen opisto/Polytekniska institutet ("Polytechnical Institute"), while

912-670: The Hagalund manor , which still remains at its place, near the Otaniemi water tower . In 1810 the farmstead was split in two between the grandsons of Karl von Numers. One of them received the lands of the Hagalund manor and the other received the farmstead proper with its main building. The Otaniemi manor was later sold in 1832 to banker Johan Norrman, who himself sold the entire property to beer merchant Pavel Sinebrychoff 25 years later. Sinebrychoff then expanded his property and also bought

969-537: The Police University College was located in Otaniemi until 2008. A new fire station will be constructed in Otaniemi next to the planned students' house as it is not possible to reach the area from elsewhere quickly enough. The new fire station will require a change in the zoning plan and dismantling the current Neste self-service petrol station. The projected price of the building is 5.3 million euro. The city council of Espoo still needs to accept

1026-677: The Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences in Finland ( Svenska tekniska veteskapsakademien i Finland ). The Finnish title of Academician ( akateemikko / akademiker ) is an award given by the President of Finland upon the recommendation of the Research Council to the most distinguished Finnish scientists, scholars and artists. It may also be bestowed on foreign scientists, scholars or artists who have contributed very significantly to Finnish intellectual life. At any time, there may be

1083-547: The Sámi word "outa" meaning a forested lowland. The latter might well be the correct etymology, because in late medieval sources the name Otaniemi also appears as Outnäs, Owttenes or Outenesby (later Otnäs). Because of the diphthong "ou" which is rarely used in Swedish , it can be deduced that there have been southern Sámi people or Tavastians in the ara in ancient times. There are also other place names of Sámi ancestry in Espoo,

1140-565: The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland : TKK participated in 12 Centres of Excellence ( huippuyksikkö ), selected by the Academy of Finland to represent the top research in the country and receiving separate, fixed-period funding from the Academy. Researchers at TKK have achieved notability in, among other things, low temperature physics (holding the current world record for the lowest temperature achieved ),

1197-537: The Department of Architecture of the School of Engineering, formerly of Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, was merged with Aalto University School of Art and Design into Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture . All engineering programmes offered by TKK led to the degree of diplomi-insinööri ("engineer with university diploma"), a five-year master's degree. The only exceptions to this were

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1254-963: The Finnish Innovation Center, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland , the Micronova Center of Micro and Nanotechnology, the KCL pulp and paper research center, the CSC IT Center for Scientific Computing, the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK), and the National Bureau of Measures (MIKES). Helsinki University of Technology's 10 national centers of excellence create most of Finland's hi-tech patents within this small area. Otaniemi has gained international recognition in information and communication technologies thanks largely to Nokia , but it also contains

1311-662: The Government of Finland purchased the lands of Hagalund Manor for use as the campus of the Helsinki University of Technology and the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. First to be built was the student campus of the Helsinki University of Technology, which also served as one of the Olympic Villages in the 1952 Summer Olympics . Several thousand students currently live in Otaniemi. The region has since been built up around TKK and VTT, and

1368-470: The Hagalund manor in 1859. After the death of Pavel Sinebrychoff in 1883 the entire area was transferred to his older son Nikolai, who travelled abroad three years later to take care of his health. Control of the area was taken by Nikolai's younger brother Paul, who had married actress Fanny Grahn. The couple moved to the Otaniemi manor in 1904. Their marriage did not result in children. Paul died in 1917 and Fanny died four years later. According to their will,

1425-441: The Helsinki University of Technology (TKK), one of the three merger schools that later formed Aalto University, and the designer of both the city plan for the Otaniemi area and the main building of TKK. Otaniemi hosts a student community especially concentrated in the several blocks of student housing called Teekkarikylä ( Swedish : Teknologbyn , literally technology students' village ). Some buildings of Teekkarikylä are owned by

1482-554: The architecture programmes that lead to the master's degrees of architecture and landscape architecture. From 2005, according to the Bologna process , all students might also complete an intermediate degree ( tekniikan kandidaatti , TkK ) before the DI or architect's degree. This degree is considered a bachelor's degree and enables enrollment in foreign universities where a bachelor's degree is required. TKK did not offer programs terminating in

1539-412: The area by the business incubator Technopolis . In 2010, Otaniemi became home to Aalto University , formed from the merger of the Helsinki University of Technology, the University of Art and Design Helsinki , and the Helsinki School of Economics . The oldest signs of human activity in the Otaniemi area can be found in front of the courtyard of what is now Jämeräntaival 1 (the so-called summer hotel):

1596-524: The area was split in 1922. The smaller part (consisting of the current university campus and the Teekkarikylä student residence) was given to director Carl af Forselles, the husband of Fanny's niece, and the larger part, including the Hagalund manor, was given to Fanny's nephew, doctor and tennis player Arne Grahn , also known as the "father" of the district of Westend . In 1927 the Af Forselles family sold Otaniemi to three private persons, who founded

1653-466: The autumn semester 2019 the Otaniemi gymnasium with 800 students also started operating in Otaniemi, transferred over from the Pohjois-Tapiola and Olari gymnasiums, which were discontinued. The area is architecturally unique, boasting buildings designed by leading Finnish architects including Alvar Aalto , Heikki and Kaija Siren , and Reima and Raili Pietilä. Alvar Aalto was an alumnus of

1710-432: The building material originally used for the campus was acquired from the former Soviet Union embassy, which had been destroyed during World War II , as a result of bombings by Soviet Union itself. Later the student housing has been used for housing athletes again in a number of athletics events, sometimes to the dismay of the students that have to move out during the events. The quality of the Otaniemi student housing holds

1767-497: The company Ab Otnäs Gård in the area. In the 1930s ownership of the company was transferred to Kansallis-Osake-Pankki and it was renamed Otaniemi Oy. In 1949 the state of Finland bought an area of about 107 hectares north of Lehtisaarentie from the company, on the initiative of the Helsinki University of Technology . At the same time, the student body of the university acquired about two hectares of land at Otaniemi for

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1824-504: The construction of the Teekkarikylä student residence. The Otaniemi manor and its surroundings make an appearance in Nyrki Tapiovaara 's film The Stolen Death (1938), which contains a scene where the cossacks pursue activists and ride right into the courtyard of the manor. As late as the 1940s, Otaniemi was part of the Hagalund manor and used as a park and farmland, from where an old linden allée survives. In 1949,

1881-494: The council are called Academy Professors . The funding period for Academy professors is 5 years. The Academy of Finland appoints Academy Professors . The term is five years. There are 32 serving currently, with two carrying specific name and branch. Minna Canth Academy Professor focuses on Social equality and Women's studies . Martti Ahtisaari Academy Professor focuses on International Conflict management . Academy Professors in spring 2018: This article about

1938-565: The council. The Academy of Finland should not be confused with The Finnish Academy of Science and Letters ( Suomalainen tiedeakatemia ) and the Finnish Society of Science and Letters ( Finska Vetenskaps-Societeten ) which are the two Finnish learned societies for scientists and scholars. For engineers, there are two language-based honorary academies, the Finnish Academy of Technology ( Teknillisten Tieteiden Akatemia ) and

1995-487: The development of devices and methods for magnetoencephalography , mobile communications, wood processing , and neural networks, with professor Teuvo Kohonen initiating research in self-organizing maps . Additionally, the first commercialised total synthesis , the synthesis of camphor , was invented by Gustaf Komppa , the first professor of chemistry at TKK and the Nobel laureate (chemistry, 1945) Artturi Virtanen held

2052-522: The eastern shore of the Otsolahti bay and Lakör at the point of the Otaniemi peninsula. When the immense construction work of Sveaborg started, the farmstead of Otaniemi was transferred to the ownership of Karl von Numers in 1746. The construction workers and garrison men of Sveaborg required large amounts of accommodation space, and new residential buildings were built also in the Otaniemi area. One of these so-called military crofts later developed into

2109-529: The entire village of Otaniemi to the ground. In 1602 the lands were given to the experienced war hero, ensign Daniel Golovachev. The lord of the Turku Castle , Anders Nilsson (Hyttner) received control of the houses in Otaniemi in the 1630s and at that time they formed a unified farmstead for the first time in their history, a manor exempt from equipping cavalry. The mayor of Helsinki Gabriel Tavast bought Otaniemi in 1653 and almost ten years later in 1662 it

2166-511: The fifth building of Swing life Center was built in Keilaniemi, making the construction of the centre complete. The Swing Life Center complex currently houses about thirty companies in four interconnected buildings. Otaniemi was home to the Border and Coast Guard Academy, Finland , which was discontinued in Otaniemi in 2014 when its activity was concentrated to Imatra . The officer school of

2223-549: The main building of the university. Academy of Finland The Research Council of Finland ( Finnish : Suomen Akatemia , Swedish : Finlands Akademi ) is a governmental funding body for scientific research in Finland . Until August 2023, its official English-language name was Academy of Finland . It is based in Helsinki . Yearly, the council administers over 260 million euros to Finnish research activities. Over 5000 researchers are working on projects supported by

2280-548: The main course of the Vantaa river used to flow into the Iso Huopalahti bay at the bottom of Laajalahti at the time. The etymology of the name "Otaniemi" is not certain. It is thought to have come from the Finnish word "oka" meaning the point of a spear, because of the sharp shape of the peninsula, or from "ohto" meaning a bear, which is also supported by the names of nearby places such as Otsolahti and Karhusaari, or from

2337-570: The most notable of which is probably Nuuksio . The village of Otaniemi, which according to tax documents from 1540 included three houses, originally belonged to Helsingin pitäjä , where the masters of the village often served as jurors in court sessions. During the Russo-Swedish War , on the icy cold winter of 1577 the Tatars attacked the coast of Espoo over the Gulf of Finland and burned

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2394-491: The plan. Otaniemi has three daycares, a stadium, an indoor arena, and a small shopping mall called A Bloc. The Fat Lizard Brewing Company has had its brewery in Otaniemi since 2017. The Ring I beltway goes past Otaniemi, and the area is located at its end near the Länsiväylä highway. The most direct car connection from the Helsinki city centre to Otaniemi goes via Länsiväylä and the western end of Ring I. Additionally,

2451-481: The ruins of the embassy of the Soviet Union, which had been destroyed in the bombing of Helsinki during World War II. The Otaniemi Chapel , designed by the same architects, was built 1957. As soon as the houses in Teekkarikylä were completed, they served to accommodate athletes in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Construction of Teekkarikylä and the prominent actions of the teekkari students in 1956 sped up

2508-399: The same facilities. TKK was located in Otaniemi , Espoo. Several high-tech companies, the Finnish forest industry's joint experimental laboratory KCL, and business incubators Innopoli and Technopolis are also situated there. It is also directly adjacent to Keilaniemi , with Life Science Center and the headquarters of several notable Finnish companies, such as Nokia and Fortum . The area

2565-473: The same time as the university. The Teekkarikylä residence in Otaniemi also served as accommodation in the 1983 and 2005 World Championships in Athletics . Because of the 2005 championships, construction of new student apartments sped up and right before the event, six new buildings were built into Teekkarikylä at Jämeränaukio and Otaranta. The Haukilahti gymnasium moved to Otaniemi in autumn 2016. During

2622-448: The second university to be founded in Finland. In 1955, building of the new campus area started with the housing village. In 1966, TKK moved from Helsinki to the new campus in Otaniemi, Espoo. In the past, the university was also known by the abbreviations HUT and TH , from its English language and Swedish language names, but in 2005 a decision was made to officially solely use the abbreviation TKK for branding reasons. In 2010, TKK

2679-534: The street Kuusisaarentie leads from Munkkiniemi in Helsinki to Otaniemi via a chain of islands. Many Espoo internal bus lines have their terminus stops at Teekkarikylä in Otaniemi, and many regional bus lines also travel past the area. Otaniemi has been connected to the Helsinki Metro since 2017. The Aalto University metro station of the Länsimetro line is located in Otaniemi to the southwest of

2736-467: The student association of Aalto University AYY ; others are owned by HOAS . There are very few non-student apartments in Otaniemi, as almost all inhabitants are students. Due to the nature of its demographic, Otaniemi is also the poorest ZIP code area in Finland: according to an investigation made by Statistics Finland in 2015, the median income per resident was reported to be only 11 062 euros. In

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2850-559: The students of the university, as is stipulated by Finnish law. It was founded in 1872. TKK was also one of the two universities in Finland to host one or more nations , a Finnish type of student corporation . The only nation at TKK was Teknologföreningen (TF) and its goal was to unite Swedish-speaking students at TKK. Teknologföreningen was founded in 1872, prior to the student union. Teknologföreningen also has its own building opposite to Dipoli called Urdsgjallar , completed in 1966. The Finnish-speaking student nation Tekniikan Ylioppilaat

2907-422: The two other manufacture and handiwork schools were demoted to institutions of lower level. In 1877 the school moved to larger premises to a new building near the Hietalahdentori market square. As the proportion of matriculation diploma holders in the student intake gradually increased, the school gained more social respectability. In 1908, TKK was given university status along with its present name, thus becoming

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2964-431: The university's move to Otaniemi from its old, cramped premises in the Helsinki city centre. Construction of the main building of the university started in 1961, when the old manor located at the same time, dating from the late 18th or early 19th century, was dismantled. The main building was completed in 1964 and officially inaugurated in 1966. The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland moved from Helsinki to Otaniemi at

3021-410: Was disbanded in 1972 and its functions given to the university student union, since a separate Finnish-speaking nation in a university with an overwhelming Finnish-speaking majority was considered unnecessary. The regional Finnish-speaking nations at the University of Helsinki also accepted TKK students as members. The housing area of Otaniemi campus, known as Teekkarikylä (technology student village),

3078-446: Was merged with Helsinki School of Economics and University of Art and Design Helsinki into Aalto University . After brief existence in the new university as own institution, Aalto University School of Science and Technology , it was split into four schools, corresponding to four old faculties, School of Engineering , School of Science , School of Electrical Engineering , and Aalto University School of Chemical Technology . In 2012,

3135-416: Was owned mostly by the student union and partly by HOAS (Helsinki Student Housing Fund). The housing was characterised by the presence of foreign students of many nationalities. As of 2005, the village offered housing for approximately 2,600 students. Construction of the Otaniemi campus was started in 1950, in order for the first buildings to host the athletes of the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Some of

3192-479: Was taken into use in 2017. Otaniemi is the home of Aalto University 's campus, thus "Otaniemi" is often used as a synonym for Aalto. However, several research and business facilities are also located in Otaniemi. The most prominent institutions for science and engineering in Otaniemi are the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK). Business is represented in

3249-471: Was transferred to the state as a manor of the crown. Otaniemi was accepted as a farmstead required to equip cavalry in 1695. The area had already become part of Espoo before this. After the Great Wrath , the lands of Otaniemi were bought by colonel Henrik Wright who had served in the army of King Charles XII of Sweden . This took place in 1734, and thus two new crofts were formed, Björnholm (Karhusaari) at

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