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This year's school will be held in Norway from 15-28 June. Register by 19 February 2016
In this week's Bulletin find out about the important changes for CERN personnel following the five-year review of employment conditions
Representatives of CERN’s local communities and international Geneva came together in Microcosm on Thursday evening for a traditional annual event
Hundreds of people were hard at work during the year-end technical stop as all the accelerators underwent maintenance and upgrade operations
Professor Carlo Rubbia, former CERN Director-General, awarded highest scientific prize for foreign individuals by the People’s Republic of China
New International Cooperation Agreements with Lebanon and Palestine pave the way to enhanced collaboration between CERN and the Middle East
As the New Year begins, CERN’s new Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti looks to the goals and challenges for 2016 and beyond
The students on the third Challenge Based Innovation (CBI) @CERN course presented all their proofs-of-concept and prototypes in December
18 teachers attended a three-day training course organised by the LAMAP Foundation (Fondation La main à la pâte set up by Georges Charpak in 1995)
CERN took part in "Élargis tes horizons" a conference to encourage girls to take up studies in the scientific and technical domains
Fabiola Gianotti greets CERN personnel and invites them to a general meeting on Monday 18 January
2015: the year that saw the restart of collisions at the world’s largest particle accelerator and the return of the particle hunters to their lookouts
