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News regarding Mobility at CERN

CERN Bikes CERN owns a fleet of more than 500 bikes, managed by the Mobility Centre (bdg. 6167). Members of CERN personnel (MPE and MPA) can use these free of charge during work-related activities at CERN (a security deposit is requested). >>

New location of the Learning and Development group

The HR-LD group would like to inform you that, owing to renovations, the service currently located on the fourth floor of Building 5 will be moving to the first floor of Building 653 for around eight months from September 2016. >>

Bike to work safely

As the fine weather appears and CERN fills up with summer visitors, the number of people cycling to and from CERN and around the CERN campus rises dramatically – and so does the number of accidents involving bicycles. So far this summer, there have been 10 reported accidents, all of which could have been avoided. There are many things that road users of all kinds can do to make cycling safer and stop that number rising any further. >>

New AIDA-2020 call for breakthrough detector technologies

Physicists, engineers, and industry will be interested in a new proof-of-concept fund for breakthrough projects from the general field of detector development and testing. >>

CERN announces the fourth annual Beamline for Schools competition

CERN is pleased to announce the fourth annual Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition. Once again, in 2017, a fully equipped beamline will be made available at CERN for students. As in previous years, two teams will be invited to the Laboratory to execute the experiments they proposed in their applications. The 2017 competition is being made possible thanks to support from the Alcoa Foundation for the second consecutive year. >>

CERN restaurants: opening hours during summer

In the summer, the three CERN restaurants remain open during their usual hours. On Monday 1st August and Thursday 8 September, the Restaurant 1 will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. >>

News Articles

New open source medical imaging tools released by CERN and University of Bath collaboration  
Making CERN a modern and attractive employer  
A professional culture at CERN  
LHC Report: LHC hit the target!  
Romania's flag raised at CERN  
CERN featured as leader in Global Innovation Index  
White hats for CERN  
Ombud’s Corner: the gift of feedback  
Erwin Gabathuler (1933 - 2016)  

Official News

Individual breakdown of pension rights  
Annual Information Meeting of the Pension Fund | 26 October  
Elections to the Senior Staff Advisory Committee (“The Nine”) 2016  
113th ACCU Meeting  
Staff Rules and Regulations - Modification No. 11 to the 11th edition  
Administrative Circular No. 13 (Rev. 4) - Guarantees for representatives of the personnel  
Administrative Circular No. 22B (Rev. 2) - Compensation for hours of long-term shift work  
Administrative Circular No. 23 (Rev. 4) - Special working hours  
Administrative Cicular No. 31 (Rev. 2) - International indemnity and non-resident allowance  
Procedure for the delivering of personal short-term visitor dosimeters  

Training and Development

Safety Training: "Habilitation électrique - Electrician Low Voltage - Initial" course in October  
Upcoming training sessions (up to end October) - Places available  

Events

UNIGE in space... hunting astroparticles  
Geneva Mix & Mash | 13 September | Brasserie des Halles de l'Île  
ICE-DIP closing workshop - Public session | 14 September  
CERN Library | Pauline Gagnon presents the book "Who cares about particle physics? : making sense of the Higgs boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN" | 15 September  
CMS Create #2 | 3-4 October | Register now!  
Conference: Probing the warped side of our Universe with gravitational waves and computer simulations | 16 September | Uni Dufour  
Conference: Seeing two black holes merge (with gravitational waves!) | 14 September | Uni Dufour  

Staff Association

Five-Yearly Review: the Staff Association keeps you informed!  
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Orienteering club  
Petanque club  
GAC-EPA  
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