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AI in knowledge work: five tips to multiply your productivity

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Autumn semester begins: over 2 500 new students will roam the campuses

LUT University's new academic year begins on Monday 1 September 2025. LUT is launching four new master’s programmes in Lappeenranta and Lahti. The programmes support the university’s revised strategy, which focuses on balance between humankind and the environment.

Tiina Tuomela, Tuomas Syrjänen, and Ulla Heinonen to join LUT University's board

Bio-based carbon dioxide utilisation needs to be fast-tracked

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Mika Ruokonen to start as AI-focused industry professor in Lahti

Mika Ruokonen

LUT University excels in top global university rankings

LUT made the world's top 30 for climate action in the THE Impact Rankings 2025. The university is also 63rd globally in citations per faculty member in the QS World University Rankings 2026.

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Less waste, more clean water

LUT University in Finland is stydying how to give membranes a new life, solving a huge waste problem related to water treatment.

Water treatment

How to balance electricity generation and consumption

LUT-yliopisto: sähkön tuotannon ja kulutuksen tasapaino

AI in sales: Assistant Professor Pia Hautamäki challenges traditional thinking

LUT Business School's Assistant Professor Pia Hautamäki says that a sales leader must build a culture where effective AI practices are shared.

Studying sustainable business: insights from future changemakers

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Three ways physics helps solve the world's problems

LUT University’s professors of physics explain how this fundamental science is connected to electrification, resource wisdom and technological innovations.

The water cluster in Mikkeli brings together expertise in the water sector and creates export opportunities

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