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The course will take place from 25 May to 7 June 2020 in Sint-Michielsgestel, Netherlands
The 8th Thematic CERN School of Computing (tCSC 2020) will be held in the beautiful city of Split, Croatia from 7 to 13 June 2020
The 2020 European School of High-Energy Physics will take place from 17 to 30 June in Israel
25 women working at CERN contributed to the sixth bi-annual "Expanding your Horizons (EYH) - Geneva" event at the University of Geneva
Registration for the 2020 session of the Joint Universities Accelerator School (JUAS) is now open
Registration for the 2020 session of the European School of Instrumentation in Particle and Astroparticle Physics (ESIPAP) is now open
Applications are now open for the 42nd CERN School of Computing (CSC 2019), which will take place from 15 to 28 September 2019 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
CERN has been organising visits of women scientists and engineers to local schools on the occasion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science
The fifth CERN-UNESCO School on Digital Libraries brought together 35 library professionals from African countries in Nairobi, Kenya
First summer school for secondary students organised between University of Barcelona and CERN
Registration for the 2019 session of the European School of Instrumentation in Particle and Astroparticle Physics (ESIPAP) is now open
Registration for the 2019 session of the Joint Universities Accelerator School (JUAS) is now open