Category: 2021
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Beamline for Schools 2021: Register your teams now!
After the spectacular success of Beamline for Schools 2020, the competition is back again for its eighth edition! This physics competition offers high-school students the unique opportunity to carry out an experiment at CERN or in a partner research laboratory. Beamline for Schools has become increasingly popular over the past seven years, with more than…
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Michel Spiro promoted to officer of the “Legion of Honour”
Michel Spiro promoted to officer of the “Legion of Honour” Former President of the CERN Council Michel Spiro has been promoted to the class of officer of the Legion of Honour (Officier de la Légion d’honneur), a very high French order of merit, on 14 July 2021. The announcement of the order’s recipients came in…
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Hear it from our donors: Stefan Bernegger and Paulina Barrena
Giving the opportunity to support and empower a future generation of scientists is what is most dear to Stefan and his wife Paulina. Their commitment to the CERN & Society Foundation shows exactly how true this statement is to them. “We learned about the CERN & Society Foundation when searching for opportunities to visit CERN”,…
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CERN’s newly appointed Cultural Advisory Board holds its first meeting
On Thursday, 25 November CERN will convene the first meeting of its newly appointed Cultural Advisory Board. Comprising experts and leaders from the arts and science sectors, the Board will provide advice to shape the Laboratory’s arts programme and promote CERN’s engagement with art in collaboration with leading cultural organisations. The CERN Cultural Advisory Board…
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Collide residency award launches new call for entries
Today, Arts at CERN launches a new call for Collide, its flagship residency programme, in partnership with the City of Barcelona. Artists from all around the world are invited to submit their proposals for a research-led residency. The laureate, an individual artist or artistic collective, will be invited to spend three months dedicated to artistic research and exploration…
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BL4S: the next generation of scientists
The winning teams of Beamline for Schools 2021 spent two full weeks at DESY to work on their experiments The eighth edition of Beamline for Schools ended on September 21 2021, when the two winning teams left DESY, Hamburg, Germany, with a smile on their faces and many fond memories. The team “EXTRA” from Italy and the team “Teomitzli” from…
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A launch pad for the next generation of technical entrepreneurs
On 27 August 2021, the CERN Entrepreneurship Student Programme (CESP) held its Demo Day, during which participating teams marked the completion of the intensive five-week entrepreneurial programme by delivering their final venture idea pitches. This year marked CESP’s fourth run, in which five selected teams of technical master’s students from across the globe got a chance to…
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CERN’s Science Gateway takes (tubular) shape
Two months on from the first-stone ceremony, one of Science Gateway’s tubular structures has been installed Construction of Science Gateway, CERN’s new scientific education and communication hub designed by the Renzo Piano Building Workshop in collaboration with Brodbeck-Roulet architectes associés, is proceeding apace. A new architectural feature – in the form of a tube – has been…
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KiCad – a tool for sharing, learning and developing
KiCad – a tool for sharing, learning and developing In this last edition of the Project Leadership Series, we interview Javier Serrano, the coordinator for CERN’s contribution to KiCad Development. In this series, we aim to explore the various projects supported by the CERN & Society Foundation through the lens of the managers facilitating these…
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Winners announced for the Beamline for Schools Competition!
Two teams of high-school students from the Liceo Scientifico Statale “A. Scacchi” (Bari, Italy) and from the Esculea Nacional Preparatoria “Plantel 2” (Mexico City, Mexico) have won the prestigious CERN Beamline for Schools competition. The prize this year is a trip to the DESY research centre in Hamburg, Germany, in autumn 2021, to carry out their proposed experiments with the support of scientists from CERN and DESY. Beamline for Schools (BL4S) is a global…