Professor Thomson’s five-year mandate will begin on 1 January 2026

A special high-level ceremony held at CERN crowned a year-long celebration taking place across Europe and beyond

The CERN Council has announced that Professor Costas Fountas will become its 25th President beginning on 1 January 2025

Estonia becomes the first Baltic country to join CERN as a full Member State

Three teams of secondary school pupils from Estonia, Japan and the United States have been selected to carry out their own experiments using accelerator beams at CERN and DESY

CERN will turn 70 on 29 September 2024. A rich celebration programme will enable the public to celebrate CERN’s illustrious past and engage with its bright future

CERN has inaugurated its new emblematic centre for science education and outreach targeting a public of all ages. The building was designed by world-renowned architect Renzo Piano and funded by external donations.

Three teams of high-school students from the Club de Física Enrico Fermi (Vigo, Spain), the Elsewedy Technical Academy (STA) (Cairo, Egypt), and the École du Sacré-Coeur (Reims, France) have won the 2022 edition of the Beamline for Schools competition

On 3 March 2022, CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti and Brazilian Minister for Science, Technology and Innovation Marcos Pontes signed an agreement admitting Brazil as an Associate Member State of CERN