The Conseil Général of Haute-Savoie comes to CERN

On Tuesday, 27 May 2008, in the framework of cooperation between CERN and the French Department of Haute-Savoie, the new president of the Conseil Général of Haute-Savoie, Christian Monteil, visited CERN, accompanied by newly-elected Department representatives and officials.

The Conseil Général of Haute-Savoie visited the CLIC-CTF3 site.

The cooperation between CERN and Haute-Savoie, which dates back to 1996, concerns scientific activities and technology transfer. In his introductory remarks, CERN Director-General Robert Aymar stressed the importance that CERN attaches to good relations with the Department of Haute-Savoie. Then J.J. Blaising, Head of the PH Department and CERN’s liaison officer for Haute-Savoie, presented a short introduction to CERN, which was followed by a lively question-and-answer session underlining our guests’ interest in and curiosity about CERN.

The visitors toured ATLAS, then went on to see a small exhibition on CLIC-CTF3, Micron 2010 and TOTEM, specially organized for them. Through the cooperation agreement, the Conseil Général of Haute-Savoie provides funding for some of the activities connected to these projects and to the other LHC experiments.

In his concluding comments, Christian Monteil said that the visit had opened his eyes to the scale of CERN’s facilities and projects. He went on to say that a forthcoming session of the Conseil Général would be specially devoted to the prospects for enhancing this cooperation.