Romania becomes a candidate for accession to CERN

On Thursday 11 February Romanian Minister of Education, Research, Youth and Sport, Daniel Petru Funeriu, and CERN Director-General, Rolf Heuer, signed an agreement that formally recognises Romania as a Candidate for Accession to membership of CERN. Romania’s pre-membership will cover a five-year period during which the country’s contributions will ramp up to normal Member State levels, in parallel with Romania's participation in CERN projects. At the end of this five-year period the Council will decide on Romania's application for full membership, as the Organization's 21st Member State.

Romania entered into direct collaboration with CERN in the early 1990s. In recent years Romania has been constantly increasing its expenditure on R&D and this has been intensified since the country's accession to the EU in January 2007. Romania is involved in three LHC experiments, namely ATLAS, ALICE and LHCb . It also contributes to the DIRAC and ISOLDE programs and to GRID computing.

Further reading about the CERN-Romania collaboration: http://external-relations.web.cern.ch/External-Relations/candidate/romania.html

http://cds.cern.ch/record/1150904?ln=en

by CERN Bulletin