The Future Internet Graduate School (FIGS) is a joint venture of Aalto University, University of Helsinki, and Tampere University of Technology. It is coordinated at Aalto University, Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. FIGS started in the beginning of 2010. Due to the change in the funding system of the Finnish doctoral programmes at the end of 2013, the FIGS programme finished at the end of 2013.

FIGS educated scientists who can contribute to Future Internet research based on deep technical competence combined with equally deep understanding of the socio-economical issues. Thus, they aimed to recruit not only engineers, but also economists, social scientists, behavioural scientists, and designers. An essential goal of the programme was for all students to be able to understand each other’s work and comment critically on it, despite their basic education. During 2013 FIGS had 31 doctoral students, of which 16 (51.6%) were foreign and 5 (16.1%) women. During 2013, there were 10 students from the Department of Computer Science in FIGS. Three of those students defended their theses in 2013.