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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
Five technical apprentices left CERN in 2016 after obtaining their "certificat fédéral de capacité"
Technical students developed ambitious probe project at CERN Idea Square to take part in NASA competition
Almost ten years after the start of the programme in 2007, the hundredth Gentner Doctoral Student started his PhD at CERN
From 11 to 17 June, CERN hosted the 10 young students who won the CERN Special Award at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair