Summer programmes for high-school students and teachers
(Image: Julien Ordan/CERN)In summer 2018, CERN will offer several residential programmes for high-school students and their teachers. These summer programmes offer the unique chance to explore the...
View ArticleInside Story: Behind the scenes of the high-school programme
High-school students from France participating in one of the internship programmes (Image: Sophia Bennett/CERN)Have you ever wanted to know what happens when high-school students visit CERN? Are you...
View ArticleHappy International Cosmic Day
Kate KahleThis map shows the worldwide participants of International Cosmic Day 2017, more detail here: https://icd.desy.de/e25775/ (Image: DESY)Today, International Cosmic Day takes place for the...
View ArticleApplications open for 2018 CERN openlab Summer Students
The group of 2017 CERN openlab summer students in front of the Globe of Science and Innovation (Image: Andrew Purcell/CERN)Are you a bachelor's or master's student in computer science, mathematics,...
View ArticleCERN women expand horizons for future female scientists
Nicoletta GarelliThe girls learnt about many aspects of science, including superconductivity (Image: Guillaume Megévand / EYH, 2013) Last month, 32 women working at CERN contributed to the fifth...
View ArticleHigh-school internship programme opens next phase
Ines KnapperA student from Norway working with her CERN supervisor as part of the High-School Student Internship Programme (Image: CERN)2017 marked a success for the newly adopted High-School Student...
View ArticleBeamline for Schools 2016 winners publish scientific papers
The two winning teams of BL4S edition 2016 finalized scientific papers about their conducted experiments. In September 2016 the teams “Pyramid Hunters” from Poland and “Relatively Special” from the UK...
View ArticleThird Innovation for Change project kicks off today
In the previous editions of the "Innovation for Change" project, young talents tackled some of the global social challenges. Following the success from last years, the project “Innovation for Change”...
View ArticleNew winners of the ATLAS Thesis Awards
Recipients of the 2017 ATLAS Thesis Awards (L-R): Katsuo Tokushuku (ATLAS Deputy Board Chair), Pierfrancesco Butti, Oleh Kivernyk, Karl Jakobs (ATLAS Spokesperson), Johanna Lena Gramling, Markus...
View ArticleCERN & Society Launches Programme for Future Entrepreneurs
Building bridges: students will work closely with experts on knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship (Image: Jeff Wiener/CERN)CERN has a history of building bridges between scientists, nations and...
View ArticleIntroducing gender-inclusive teaching
Ioanna Koutava and Kate KahleFrancesca Borgonovi, Senior Analyst from OECD presenting the results of the OECD report “The ABC of Gender Equality in Education” (Image: J. Ordan/CERN)Back in 2015, CERN’s...
View ArticleApply for the Beamline for Schools Competition 2019
Thanks to five successful editions, the Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition that offers high-school students the chance to conduct a real experiment at a real research laboratory has become a very...
View Article2018 CERN openlab summer-student programme comes to a close
Ioanna Katsina DimoulaSince its launch in 2002, more than 370 students have come to CERN through the CERN openlab summer-student programme. (Image: CERN)CERN openlab summer students recently presented...
View ArticleCBI is getting cloned in Finland
Cristina AgrigoroaeIndustrial engineering and management student Laura Valtonen (on the right) with the CBI@TUT team (Iikka Luosa, Anne Haapala, Jani Hilliaho, Mikko Hongisto) at the University of...
View ArticleSummer school for secondary students in Spain
Students from the Sagrada Familia school in Gava presenting their activities with CERN developed Timepix detectors at the Summer School (Image: Rafael Ballabriga)The first summer school organised...
View ArticleOpen Data: pushing back the frontiers together
Peitsa VeteliEvery year, students and teachers who participate in CERN’s summer programmes, get the chance to explore different learning resources in particle physics. (Image: CERN)These days we are...
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