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If you are a staff member and considering retirement in the next one or two years, we encourage you to participate in two special seminars
All members and beneficiaries of the Pension Fund are invited to attend the Annual Information Meeting on Thursday 18 October 2018 - 2:30 p.m.
Many of you answered the mobility survey. Your answers will help us improve mobility at CERN
Do you work for CERN and have a project with potential positive impact on society? Apply for funding from the CERN KT Fund before 12 November
At the end of October, the last protons for Run 2 will circulate inside the LHC. The next protons will be injected only in the spring of 2021!
4,300 of you have taken part in the mobility survey. Your answers will help proposals to be developed over the coming months
On 11 September, CERN received a visit from Ana Brnabić, Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia
In July 2018, CERN took part in the WOMAD Festival near Bristol in the UK
This year, IdeaSquare will welcome LHCreate’s fourth edition on 18 and 19 October. Everyone at CERN is warmly invited to take part
Following up on some questions we received concerning our last Bulletin article, let us expand on the easiest way to lose your CERN password…
The experiment successfully accelerated electrons with plasma wakefields generated by protons, a world first
Since the recovery from the recent machine development period, the LHC has been in luminosity production mode, crawling its way up towards 60 fb-1
