Did you know that the CERN & Society Foundation is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month?
Created in June 2014 to support and promote CERN’s mission and its benefits to the wider public, the CERN & Society Foundation works nationally and internationally across three main areas: education and outreach, innovation and knowledge exchange, and culture and creativity.
- Education and outreach includes projects such as the Beamline for Schools competition, the CERN Non-Member State PhD Studentship Scheme and the Non-Member State Summer Students programme.
- Innovation and knowledge exchange encompasses several projects, including: CERN-MEDICIS, which enables researchers to develop new approaches to fight cancer; TimePix, which is a detector for monitoring radiation in the environment and has an educational component for students; and Zenodo, an open source tool, built and developed at CERN to ensure that everyone can join in with open science.
- Culture and creativity projects include the Arts at CERN programme.
A key achievement of the Foundation is of course the CERN Science Gateway: as part of the Foundation’s portfolio, the CERN Science Gateway would not have been possible without the generous support of its sponsors.
Pascale Goy, Head of the CERN & Society Foundation
You can find out more about the Foundation via its website and its latest Annual Review. To find out how you can support the Foundation, click here.
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How to enter the CERN & Society Foundation anniversary game:
- You must have a CERN email address to take part in this game.
- Watch the 10th anniversary impact video, above, and add together all of the impressive numbers that appear in the on-screen text.
- Send your total number to bulletin-editors@cern.ch by Sunday, 7 July at 11.59 p.m. CEST.
- Three winners will be drawn at random from among those who answer correctly. They will each win a CERN & Society Foundation water bottle.
- The three winners will be announced in the next CERN Bulletin.
Good luck!