This week marked not only ten years since the first Associate Member State joined CERN but also a newly signed Associate Member State agreement, extending the CERN family

On 8 May 2025, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Irish Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science James Lawless signed an agreement admitting Ireland as an Associate Member State of CERN

Brazil has become the first Associate Member State of CERN in the Americas

Across the Middle East and North Africa region, CERN has set up scientific collaborations to promote access to education and innovation

The fruitful collaboration between the two laboratories and the Bahraini scientific community were in focus during the CERN & SESAME Info Days at the University of Bahrain

The sum raised by the CERN personnel, the Directorate and the Staff Association contributed to the Swiss Red Cross’s essential humanitarian response to the war in Ukraine

The International Geneva Welcome Centre (CAGI) will celebrate the inauguration of its new kiosk at CERN with events, special offers and prizes to be won

In July 2022, a whole year devoted to celebrating basic sciences for sustainable development gets under way

The special session of Switzerland’s executive body was followed by an official visit by the President of the Confederation.

On 3 March 2022, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Brazilian Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Marcos Pontes signed an agreement admitting Brazil as an Associate Member State of CERN

The International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) gets ready to mark its centenary year in 2022 and, as a long-standing partner, CERN will be part of the celebrations