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The flagpole car park will be inaccessible from the morning of 1 September 2016 until around 1 p.m. on 5 September 2016
CERN owns a fleet of more than 500 bikes and cars, which are available for personnel use
Network interruptions on 27-28 August may occur as the IT Department performs a major reorganisation of CERN's General Purpose Network
The service currently located on the fourth floor of Building 5 will be moving to the first floor of Building 653 from September 2016
After a summer break, the CERN Entrepreneurship Meet-Ups (EM-Us) will start again on 23 August 2016
Are you passionate about science? Do you like communicating that passion to the general public? Then come along to the CERN Summer Student Webfeet!
Pre-registration is open for the fourth annual Beamline for Schools competition
On Monday 15 and Thursday 18 August, this year’s CERN openlab summer students will present their work in dedicated public ‘lighting talk’ sessions
Up to four projects can be funded for disruptive applications outside the field of high-energy physics, from medtech to aerospace and beyond
Let us know your needs to better plan the transition to a new CERN telephony system
Fragment.In are the winning artists of COLLIDE Pro Helvetia. They came to CERN for two months in 2015, and will now continue their last month at CERN.
Find out the best photos of the 2015 CERN Photowalk competition in the Microcosm.