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How will you get to work on 8 June 2017? Bike, tram, bus...?
Would you like to dedicate your brain to a good cause for 60 hours? Applications are now open for the 2017 THE Port Humanitarian Hackathon
As of Monday 22 May 2017, the central heating will be progressively turned off throughout CERN
The annual Bike2Work campaign will run through the month of June, sign-up your team!
CERN physicists perform music for saxophone and piano in the Main Auditorium
The crossroads in front of the main entrance of the Prévessin site will be renovated during the period between 1 May and 30 October 2017
The traffic on the Route de Meyrin will be diverted as of Monday, 8 May owing to the work on the Esplanade des Particules
Don't miss the concerts given by the CERN Choir and the Ensemble de Joux in Geneva and Ferney-Voltaire on 20 and 21 May
Opening hours of CERN restaurants and cafeterias during the weekends of May 1st, May 25th and June 5th, 2017
The CERN Relay Race 2017 will be held on Thursday 1 June
On Thursday 4 May 14:00, Fabiola Gianotti will join a panel on the theme "Breaking the cliché - Women in science"
