1st Next Generation Triggers Hackathon: a week of innovation and collaboration
The 1st NGT Hackathon, held at CERN IdeaSquare from 7–11 April 2025, brought together more than 40 students and researchers from across the Next Generation Triggers (NGT) collaboration and 15 other institutes.
Humanitarian Designers’ community met at IdeaSquare to reflect, share and gather better practices
Nearly fifty participants of Humanitarian Designers community and beyond, came together from all around the world for a three-day meetup lab at IdeaSquare in September.
Nearly fifty participants of Humanitarian Designers community and beyond, came together from all around the world for a three-day meetup lab at IdeaSquare in September.
Celebrating 10 years of IdeaSquare: Giving you the license to dream
On the 8th of November, we invite the CERN community to celebrate IdeaSquare’s 10th anniversary with us!
On the 8th of November, we invite the CERN community to celebrate IdeaSquare’s 10th anniversary with us!
How can I use CERN IdeaSquare?
Workshops and hackathons, prototyping facilities, events and more: find out how the CERN community can benefit from IdeaSquare, the innovation space at CERN
Workshops and hackathons, prototyping facilities, events and more: find out how the CERN community can benefit from IdeaSquare, the innovation space at CERN
Scouting the flow of data for the future High Luminosity LHC
How to manage large amounts of data without losing any interesting ones? The selection of data concerning particle collisions in the LHC is critical since it will determine all the resulting analyses. This is the decisive work of a novel scouting system located at the beginning of the data chain.
How to manage large amounts of data without losing any interesting ones? The selection of data concerning particle collisions in the LHC is critical since it will determine all the resulting analyses. This is the decisive work of a novel scouting system located at the beginning of the data chain.
A hackathon to reconstruct the trajectories of particles in the CMS experiment
The 15th Patatrack Hackathon took place at IdeaSquare to focus on reconstruction algorithms for the CMS experiment.
The 15th Patatrack Hackathon took place at IdeaSquare to focus on reconstruction algorithms for the CMS experiment.
Using satellite data to understand climate change
Learning to use satellite data can help understand climate change!
Sparks! Follow-up initiative: Adopting an intersectional feminist approach in digital health for gender equality and human rights
Participants of the last Sparks! edition spontaneously gathered at IdeaSquare in a follow-up initiative with a conviction: that digital technologies for health must prioritise gender equality and human rights, and that an end-to-end intersectional feminist approach is necessary.
Offering students hands-on skills in hardware and software around the domain of health at the 4th EPS TIG Hands-on Event for Science, Technology and Interfaces
Experiments necessitate many hard skills, such as physical understanding of the process, but also a bundle of other skills like know-how in instrumentation, hard- and software and strong teamwork capabilities.
It is to give these skills to students –classically difficult to obtain during studies– that the 4th European Physical Society Technology and Innovation Group's (TIG) Maker Event for Science, Technology and Interfaces was held at IdeaSquare.
Innovation 4 Change 2023 edition
Fabiola Gianotti, Director General of CERN, together with John Elkann, CEO of Exor, and other jury members, awarded the winners of the 2023 edition of Innovation 4 Change, an educational programme developed by the Collège des Ingénieurs (CDI) & CERN's innovation space, IdeaSquare.