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Four technical apprentices and one library apprentice received their diplomas in 2021
From energy storage solutions to optimised car trailers, students pitched their start-up ideas on a wide range of fascinating topics during the 2021 edition of the CERN Entrepreneurship Student Programme
LHCb has awarded its annual prizes for best PhD thesis and for outstanding contributions made by early-career scientists
Accessibility and reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities is a key facet of the CERN Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) policy
This year, four CERN technical apprentices were awarded their "certificat fédéral de capacité"
This year, IdeaSquare will welcome LHCreate’s fourth edition on 18 and 19 October. Everyone at CERN is warmly invited to take part
CERN’s challenge based innovation (CBI) course is now being adopted by the University of Tampere in Finland
Five out of 1000 plus PhD students were rewarded for having the best theses on ATLAS physics
Female scientists visited 108 local classrooms to mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
32 women working at CERN contributed to the fifth bi-annual "Expanding your Horizons (EYH) - Geneva" event at the University of Geneve
Five high-school students from Germany conducted their own research at CERN as part of the Netzwerk Teilchenwelt programme
The first High-School Students Internship Programme at CERN was launched in May 2017