The two student teams – from Greece and the Netherlands – will carry out experiments at CERN in September. Watch videos from their winning proposals

Education is a recurring theme of our 60th anniversary year, says CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer

With nearly 300 teams submitting proposals for the CERN “Beamline for Schools” competition, which one will win?

Over 1400 students in Spain have entered a CERN contest to explain how science and technology can make the world better. Vote for your favourites

With registration closed, the 455 teams must now make their case for why they should win the Beamline for Schools competition

With registration closing on 31 January, what would you do if you could conduct a real experiment on a CERN proton beamline?

For CERN’s 60th anniversary in 2014, the laboratory is offering a chance to high-school students worldwide to carry out an experiment at CERN