I would like to bring you the main news from the last Council week of 2016, which concluded today.

The CERN Procurement and Industrial Services group has been awarded the EIPM - Peter Kraljic Award for Innovation and Process Excellence

The award was presented for an Open Compute Project investigation into whether or not it could be sent out for public procurement

A tripartite agreement between CERN, France and Switzerland reinforces cooperation between their respective emergency services

The International Gender Initiative acknowledges CERN ’s efforts to improve gender equality

As the 2016 LHC run ends, the machine has transcended the dreams of its designers

Don’t let CERN’s memory be erased! Bring us your magnetic tapes on the life of the Laboratory to have them digitised

Rolf Heuer has been appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour)

Crystal Clear was founded in 1991 to provide crystal detectors for particle physics – it has since had a wider impact on society

The IT department put under the Christmas tree a wide range of tools which likely improve the security of your data