On 26 February, CERN welcomed His Excellency Mr Luc Frieden, Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The Prime Minister and his delegation were received at Point 1 of the LHC by CERN’s Director-General, Fabiola Gianotti, the Director for Research and Computing, Joachim Mnich, the Director for International Relations, Charlotte Warakaulle, the Head of the Information Technology department, Enrica Porcari, the Head of Relations with Associate and non-Member States, Emmanuel Tsesmelis, and the Senior Advisor on Relations with Luxembourg, Christoph Schäfer.

Accompanied by the spokesperson-elect of the ATLAS collaboration, Stéphane Willocq, the delegation then visited the ATLAS control room and experiment cavern.

CERN’s formal collaboration with Luxembourg began in October 2024, with the signature of an agreement for a new partnership funded by the Government of Luxembourg, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) and CERN. The aim of this collaboration is to use expertise in AI technology to address the issue of global hunger.