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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.
Humanitarian Designers NGO met at IdeaSquare to discuss and develop new approaches 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!
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!

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
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

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.



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