CERN Accelerating science

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.
From top to bottom: ATLAS, CERN Data Centre and CMS 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.
Cutaway diagrams of CMS detector The 15th Patatrack Hackathon took place at IdeaSquare to focus on reconstruction algorithms for the CMS experiment.

Using satellite data to understand climate change

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

Sparks! Follow-up initiative

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

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

Amelie Schoenenwald (ESA Astronaut Reserve Group) with Fabiola Gianotti and John Elkann

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. 



An introduction into the world of sketchnoting with Jennifer Cham

Sketchnoting posters by Jennifer Cham

Jennifer Cham is a senior user experience designer in the Business Computing Group of the Finance and Administrative Processes Department.



IdeaSquare opened its doors for the CERN Community: the start of a new network of people prototyping at CERN?

Last February, IdeaSquare, the innovation space at CERN, opened its doors for a two days event for the internal community. The event offered visitors a unique opportunity to discover our rapid prototyping and multipurpose facilities and to learn how they could get involved.
IdeaSquare Open Doors 2023 Last February, IdeaSquare, the innovation space at CERN, opened its doors for a two days event for the internal community. The event offered visitors a unique opportunity to discover our rapid prototyping and multipurpose facilities and to learn how they could get involved.

Demonstrating the potential of citizen science for monitoring the SDGs at the Crowd4SDG Final Conference

The culmination of three years of Crowd4SDG was showcased during the Final Conference on 17 March, which delivered the results of Crowd4SDG and demonstrated the potential of citizen science for monitoring the SDGs.
Crowd4SDG Final Conference: demonstrating the potential of citizen science for monitoring the SDGs The culmination of three years of Crowd4SDG was showcased during the Final Conference on 17 March, which delivered the results of Crowd4SDG and demonstrated the potential of citizen science for monitoring the SDGs.

IdeaSquare Open Doors | 15 and 16 February

Discover what the Innovation Space at CERN offers and how you can get involved
IdeaSquare Open Doors Discover what the Innovation Space at CERN offers and how you can get involved

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