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Virtual visits give CMS collaborators in Seoul chance to introduce students to particle physics
Ten students of entrepreneurship will spend five-week residency at CERN this summer
Five out of 1000 plus PhD students were rewarded for having the best theses on ATLAS physics
Fifty young talents will apply advanced technologies to create innovative startups that can help tackle global social problems
The two winning teams of BL4S edition 2016 finalized scientific papers about their conducted experiments
After passing the pilot phase, the new programme will now open up to five more countries
32 women working at CERN contributed to the fifth bi-annual "Expanding your Horizons (EYH) - Geneva" event at the University of Geneve
Would you be interested in working on an advanced IT project for two months during the summer? Apply to the CERN openlab Summer Student Programme
International Cosmic Day takes place for the sixth time on 30 November with high-school students from around the world investigating cosmic rays
Heather Wark, University of Liverpool, joined the High-School Students and Teachers Programme when she was 17, now she returns the opportunity
Applications are now open for CERN’s international summer programmes for high-school students and high-school teachers
