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 for Particle Physics). The name CERN has been retained as a proper name for the institute all these years and is no longer an abbreviation today. About 2500 people work full-time at CERN. About 6500 scientists (from 500 universities in 70 countries) work on experiments conducted at CERN. The experiments are carried out in one of the 6 particle accelerators (see photo). The purpose of these experiments is to gain insight into how matter is built up: what particles does matter consist of 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.