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The ATLAS and CMS experiments, together with the IceCube Experiment in the South Pole, hosted a virtual visit for high-school students
Some 175 pupils from the Pays de Gex and the Canton of Geneva took part in a colloquium entitled "La science en partage” (‘shared science’)
Applications to the 2015 school, which will be held in Ibarra, Ecuador, are open until 14 November
Twelve professors and students from the Constantine region of Algeria visited CERN as part of their prize for the Cirta-Science competition
The third biennial African School of Fundamental Physics and its Applications (ASP) took place in Dakar, Senegal, on 3-23 August
After a week of shifts on the T9 beamline, two teams of high-school students are ready to analyse data from their CERN experiment
From apps for terrain elevation to online privacy, participants at the CERN Webfest 2014 tackled a host of issues
Teachers from the Middle East are working together at CERN’s High School Teachers Training Programme to produce lessons about SESAME
The CERN Education group offers help and resources to prepare your students for a trip to CERN
Each year in spring the International Particle Physics Outreach Group organizes the International Masterclasses
300 pupils aged 9 to 12 organised a knowledge exchange workshop based on the “Be a Physicist” project