Training at CERN successfully completed!

Last week we provided a PRINCE2 training for 13 young scientists at no less than CERN! CERN stands for Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (European Council for Nuclear Research). Today, CERN is referred to as: Laboratoire européen pour la physique des particules (European Laboratory of Particle Physics). The name CERN has been retained as a proper name for the institute all these years and is therefore no longer an abbreviation. About 2500 people work full-time at CERN. About 6500 scientists (from 500 universities from 70 countries) are working on experiments being conducted at CERN. The experiments are performed in one of the 6 particle accelerators (see photo). The aim of these experiments is to gain insight into how matter is constructed: which particles make up matter and what are the forces that hold the particles together. With a Success Rate of no less than 85%(!), we assume that we can provide more training courses at this organization. How cool is that? Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory would be proud of us.