News from CERN Ana Godinho Head of Education












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News from CERN Ana Godinho Head of Education, Communications and Outreach 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 23. 04. 2018 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 2
September Oct/Nov May/June October September http: //hssip. web. cern. ch/ 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 3
2018 Czech Republic Israel Netherlands* Poland Sweden 2019 Austria Finland Germany Slovakia Spain 2020 Belgium Denmark Greece Italy Romania Switzerland 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 4
Global Physics Photowalk Australia: Stawell Underground Lab Switzerland/France: CERN Italy: INFN – Frascati, Southern, Legnano, Gran Sasso National Laboratories UK: STFC - Daresbury Laboratory, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilbolton Observatory, UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Boulby Underground Laboratory China: Institute of High Energy Physics Canada: TRIUMF, SNOLAB USA: Brookhaven National Laboratory, SURF, Fermilab, Lawrence Berkeley National Applications for Photowalk@CERN: 102 (Europe, USA, India, Thailand, Mexico, Sri Lanka… Lab, SLAC, National Accelerator Laboratory 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 5
ECSITE – European Network of science centres and museums • Annual meeting – 2018 @ Natural History Museum, Geneva • 1 100 science communication professionals expected • CERN is member of local organising committee and will be involved in: • Visits to CERN for participants • Speakers’ reception in the Globe + visit to exhibitions and Idea. Square • Stand in exhibition hall (with UNIGE and Campus Biotech) • CERN sessions: • Developing enquiry-based workshops (education) • Virtual reality visits • Hacking the hackathon (participatory design) • Art and science 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 6
High Luminosity LHC Ceremony and communication campaign for 15 th June • Start of civil engineering work at P 1 and P 5 • Ground-breaking ceremony officially marks starts of major work for HL-LHC • Ceremony • Integrated event that highlights close involvement of both host states • Start at P 1 and end at P 5 • Guests include Council delegates, permanent representatives of MS, AMS, Observers, international partners, contractors, CERN people 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 7
High Luminosity LHC Ceremony and communication campaign for 15 th June • Communications campaign (to be prolonged into LS 2) • Press briefing before the ceremony • Save-the-Date has been sent to media • Update for the public on home. cern, social media & voisin. cern • Briefing/media pack for the day • Overview of HL-LHC, key challenges, innovations, potential for discovery • Civil engineering – key facts & figures (for local media and audience) 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 8
The first international day of LGBT+ people in STEM 5 July 2018 #LGBTSTEMDAY • • Goal: to raise awareness and increase support for LGBT+ people in STEM to openly be themselves Organisers: Pride in STEM, House of STEM, Inter. Engineering, o. STEM Supporters include: CERN, Science Gallery, ECSITE, Royal Society of Chemistry, Wellcome Trust, National Physics Laboratory, Io. P, AAAS • Non-anglophone support encouraged! How: • Contribute to #LGBTSTEMday hashtag on social media — share stories, images and videos of scientists • Contribute to video being prepared by organisers, for social media All relevant information on website: http: //prideinstem. org/lgbtstemday/ 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 9
TEDx. CERN 5 th edition - November 20 th @ BFM Theme for 2018: Engaging with the elephant • Explore transformative science and science-based innovation that impacts on the world • Explore the disconnect between science-dependent society and the underpinning research • Possible topics to be explored: • Are we alone - exoplanets • Digital cleaning • Creating new species • Future of robots 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 10
The web at 30 • Core theme is openness and equal access for all • Main celebrations in March 2019: • TEDx-like event in the Globe (12 March) with high level speakers including Tim Berners-Lee. Will be live-streamed*. • Communications campaign with web stories, use social media • Public to share how the www has impacted their lives* • Exhibition in IT/Data Centre • With strong component on history of the www • New online content CERN Open Days 2019 • Theme “The Higgs opened the door to journey of discovery. What’s next - major upgrades. Why? ” • In-house competition to find slogan • Dates: now considering 5 -6 October 2019. Needs discussion with LS 2 work team • Labs and Institutes welcome to take part: on site and/or remotely CERN Open Days 2013 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 11
Happy to answer questions Thank you! 23 rd EPPCN Meeting 12












