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The Aalto Pioneering Excellence Award builds upon the Matti Sundberg Quality Foundation grants, awarded since 2002. The new award further emphasises the importance of quality.
“While many organisations reward recipients for excellent individual achievements or results, the new award is about developing capabilities. The award-winning activities must help Aalto improve in some new way, both permanently and over the long term. The new award seeks longer term impact, not just one off achievement,” says Veli-Matti Mattila, Elisa’s CEO and Chairman of the Award Committee.
The Award is given to a team that carries out pioneering work to develop education, improve the excellence and impact of research and artistic activities, or enable the international success of the Aalto University community. The team’s activities should be cross-border in nature, bringing on the succes of others and preparing them for such success. It promotes creativity and develops an ethically sustainable and responsible culture and way of working. For more details about the award, see the award webpage.