CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141

Original: English 5 September 2014

ORGANISATION EUROPÉENNE POUR LA RECHERCHE NUCLÉAIRE CERN EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH

Action to be taken Voting Procedure

For Information SCIENTIFIC POLICY COMMITTEE - 289th Meeting 15 and 16 September 2014

COUNCIL SESSION For Information 172nd Session - 19 September 2014

REPORT FROM EUROPEAN COMMUNICATION NETWORK

CERN/SPC/1035 1 CERN/3141 1. Overview This document covers the period August 2013 to July 2014. Major communications activities at CERN in this period include the award of the Nobel Prize in physics to François Englert and , the Open Days of 28 and 29 September 2013, a continuing campaign of national media and press officer visits, and the beginning of the 60th anniversary celebrations. The success of the first TEDxCERN event has led to a second being prepared for September 2014 (http://tedxcern.web.cern.ch). Both EPPCN and IPPOG played important roles in the launch of a pilot Beamline for Schools competition, and are collaborating on organizing a FameLab CERN competition for 2015. EPPCN and IPPOG have been aligning their autumn meetings for a number of years. This year for the first time, they will be joined at CERN by the InterActions collaboration, which brings together communication officers from the world’s major particle physics laboratories and funding agencies. The Memorandum of Understanding between CERN and the host institutes of EPPCN members has been signed by 11 countries (see Annex 2). This has been put in place to formalise the network and provide members with a modest operational budget of 5kCHF/year to carry out network business. An important development at CERN this year has been the creation of the Stakeholder Relations Office (SRO). The SRO supports the Organization's strategic goals by engaging in dialogue with key stakeholder groups, both internal and external to the Organization. It identifies key stakeholder groups, analyses their needs and concerns, advises CERN management on engagement strategies and manages CERN’s relationship with these groups. The Stakeholder Relations Office consists of the Heads of Communication, Education, International Relations, and Relations with International Organizations. It serves a coordination role, with individual members reporting to the Director-General. This document gives a short report on highlights of the work of the CERN Communication and Education groups before moving on to reports of network activity by country. It will not cover the 2013 Open Days or the 60th anniversary events in detail since these are the responsibility of separate teams put together for the purpose and reporting independently to Council.

2. Status of the network The network welcomed Avital Baer, new network member from Israel, at its autumn meeting at CERN. The positions of network members from Belgium, Bulgaria, Russia, Switzerland and Turkey are vacant. The ApPEC seat on the network is currently vacant, though it is understood that ApPEC is working on a replacement.

3. Media report Implemented in 2013, the programme of national media visits continued to bring a significant number of journalists to CERN every month until April 2014, when the last group came for a standardized two-day-visit including tours of the experiments and the LHC tunnel, as well as meetings with scientists from the journalists’ or press officers’ countries of origin. Over the 13 months the programme ran, the CERN press office worked with EPPCN and other communications officers to welcome 27 national delegations comprising the most influential 2 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 commentators on science in their countries, making a total of 232 journalists representing 192 media. Although most of the visits have already resulted in positive immediate coverage, the main goal of the project was to invest in the relationship with journalists, in preparation for LHC run 2.

Building on the success of the national media visit programme, the CERN press office organised similar visits for groups of university and institute press officers on request. France, Germany and the UK took up this offer.

The level of requests for regular media visits shows that CERN remains in the spotlight. During the 12 months from August 2013 to July 2014, the CERN press office welcomed over 480 media outlets on-site. Coverage of CERN in the media remains plentiful and positive with over 1000 mentions per month. These are mostly ranked as neutral to positive, with negative coverage being rare.

The CERN press office has been pro-active in leveraging events such as conferences and award announcements to generate positive coverage. The announcement of the Nobel Prize, supported by a well-attended press conference at CERN, resulted in a vast increase in coverage, with 4000 mentions in the first week. A press conference at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) in Copenhagen in June gave the opportunity to present the LHC restart to a large cohort of journalists and resulted in a 25% increase in the number of CERN mentions for the month. The production of daily briefings during the parallel sessions at ICHEP also found favour with the media and resulted in an increase in coverage in July.

4. Social media report

CERN’s activities on social media gained recognition in 2013 with a Twiplomacy study1 from the leading communications agency, Burson Marsteller, naming CERN the most effective international organization on Twitter; CERN now has almost 1 million Twitter followers.

1 http://twiplomacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Twiplomacy_organisations.pdf

CERN/SPC/1035 3 CERN/3141 The 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics announcement led to record levels of engagement on CERN’s Facebook page and coincided with the release of a CERN photo collection under the Creative Commons licence, enabling CERN images to be used consistently on Wikipedia.

Live interactive videos on YouTube in English, French, German, Spanish and Italian, as well as a promotional video by American singer Will-i-am, helped ensure that hundreds of student teams worldwide entered the CERN Beamline for Schools competition. Hundreds more online hunters used Google Streetview maps of the CERN computing centre to hunt for hidden LEGO characters during the Christmas break.

Through a Reddit Ask Me Anything, Google + Hangouts with CERN, collaborations with HR on LinkedIn and more, the CERN communication group continues to use social media as a vehicle to engage with the public on multiple levels to showcase CERN’s work and the diversity of CERN people.

5. Other activities organized by the CERN Communication group Other elements of the work of the CERN communication group that merit a mention include the on-going success of the 2013 edition of TEDxCERN. In addition to the live audience at CERN, some 10,000 people followed TEDxCERN remotely. The five educational animations created in collaboration with TED Ed have each been extensively viewed with the most popular achieving over 440,000 views. All have been used as lessons. The talks from TEDxCERN continue to be watched online, with the two most successful, those of Philosopher John Searle and CERN theorist Gian Giudice, each achieving over a million views with translations into many languages. In the light of this success, there will be a second edition of TEDxCERN in 2014, again sponsored by Rolex. Additional sponsors are also being sought. Details of the event can be found at http://cern.ch/tedxcern. Working with EPPCN and the InterActions collaboration, the CERN communication group has been successful in placing particle physics sessions at the world’s two largest public- facing science conferences, the annual AAAS meeting and the EuroScience Open Forum, which takes place every two years. In the most recent of these, the communication group contributed to sessions on the LHC and global planning in particle physics, as well as organizing a press conference to signpost the LHC restart. CERN personnel also took part in the opening ceremony, and there were sessions featuring CERN organized by EIROforum and the CERN KT group on medical physics. Other activities that benefited from EPPCN and IPPOG support include the pilot Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition and CERN’s participation in the international FameLab competition, which identifies and trains young scientists with strong communication skills. EPPCN and IPPOG spread the word about the BL4S competition, while IPPOG members were active in mentoring teams preparing their submissions. Over 400 expressions of interest were received from around the world. This translated to some 300 complete submissions, of which 16 were presented to the SPSC for final selection. Two teams, one from Greece and one from the Netherlands, will come to CERN to carry out their experiments in September, coinciding with the Council meeting. In 2014, CERN facilitated the French and Swiss national FameLab heats. For the 2015 edition of the competition, CERN is working with EPPCN delegates to launch a FameLab CERN competition to find a young particle physicist to send to the International finals. NASA is also running a similar competition. 4 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 The communication group worked closely with the CERN crisis management team to implement a crisis communication plan, which has been successfully implemented in two simulation exercises. EPPCN is heavily involved in the 60th anniversary celebrations, notably because many of the national contacts for the anniversary are EPPCN delegates. A neighbourhood event was organized in May for people from the local communities, centred at the CMS site with visits to neighbouring sites. This met with considerable success, some 8000 people visited over the weekend, and contributed to developing CERN’s positive reputation in its host communities. A major change in CERN’s online communication will come later in the year with the deployment of the .cern top-level Internet domain. This will allow CERN to develop a more structured Internet domain space, while remaining in the vanguard of web development. The CERN communications team remains well connected in the field, hosting a meeting of the International Public Information Directors’ roundtable, being represented on the programme committee for an annual European Association of Communication Director’s meeting, participating in the peer review of Fermilab communications and being featured in the reference publication for the industry, PR Week.

CERN/SPC/1035 5 CERN/3141 6. Activities organized by the CERN Education and Outreach group Communication with the general public Following the start up of the LHC and the first discoveries of the LHC experiments, the public interest in visiting CERN has further increased. About 90,000 visitors followed guided tours in 2013, and an additional 70,000 visitors came for the two “Open Days” organised on 27 and 28 September 2013. The permanent exhibitions “Universe of Particles” and “Microcosm” attracted 65,000 visitors.

To further improve the quality of CERN visits, four new visit point exhibitions (in the CERN control centre, the CERN data centre, the magnet test facility SM18, and the refurbished Synchro-Cyclotron, the first CERN accelerator) were inaugurated, featuring state-of-the-art audio-visual technology and showing real objects together with 3D animations about the workings of CERN accelerators and detectors.

For the public in CERN’s member states, the large travelling exhibition “Accelerating Science” was shown in the Copernicus Science Centre in Warsaw, Poland (October 2013- March 2014), at the Evgenides Foundation in Athens, Greece (April-May 2014), and the ‘Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias’ Science Centre in Valencia, Spain (June - August 2014). In total, more than 80,000 people visited the exhibition.

Communication with teachers and school students CERN’s courses for physics teachers, who play a key role in motivating and inspiring students to continue in science, technology and engineering, continued to be popular. More than 1000 teachers from 21 countries took part in 26 one-week courses, held in the native language of the teachers. In July 2013, the international 3-week course had 51 participants from 30 countries.

School classes represent about 40% of CERN visitors. To allow students to gain practical experience with modern physics, a dedicated school laboratory (S’cool Lab) has been set up, featuring 15 experiments suitable for school students aged 14-18 years old. These experiments cover the development of atomic and nuclear physics from the early 20th century to modern detector technologies used at the LHC.

7. Country reports2 Period covered: 1 July 2013 – 30 June 2014.

7.1 Austria Media Report Media Coverage/Media Activities Nobelprize October 2013 Extensive coverage in Austrian daily newspapers, radio stations and on television including: http://www.hephy.at/fileadmin/user_upload/Presse/Artikel/2012/Kurier_Nobelpreis2013.pdf http://forschen-entdecken.at/Higgs-Quarks-dunkle-Materie.16611.0.html

National Initiatives Open Day at the Institute of High Energy Physics (HEPHY) on the occasion of the award ceremony of the Nobel Prize in physics (about 100 participants). Public Lecture “How we

2 Budget reports included only for those countries having signed the MoU during this reporting period. 6 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 found the Higgs-Boson” – Chiara Mariotti at the Vienna University of Technology (about 150 participants). Public Lecture at the “Kolloquium zu den Nobelpreisen 2013” at the Montanuniversität Leoben “Das Higgs-Boson: lange gejagt, endlich gefunden!” – Manfred Jeitler. Several Public Lectures at adult education centre and secondary schools in Vienna Science&Art@School at Graz (about 40 participants).

EPPCN/CERN-wide activities: CERN 60th anniversary Austrian special postage stamp “60 years of CERN”. On April 4, 2014, the 60th anniversary of CERN was celebrated in the “Aula der Wissenschaften” in Vienna’s city centre. This celebration was part of the Austrian version of the Researchers Night (“Lange Nacht der Forschung”). More than 3000 visitors of all age groups used the opportunity to enter the exciting world of particle physics from 5 p.m. to midnight. High-ranking visitors included Reinhold Mitterlehner, the Federal Minister of Science, Research and Economy, Hannes Androsch, chairman of the Austrian Council for Research and Technology Development, and CERN’s Director General Rolf Heuer. They were welcomed by Anton Zeilinger, the President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Jochen Schieck, the Director of the Academy’s Institute of High Energy Physics. The event featured the new particle physics exhibition “CERN is turning 60: From the Universe’s smallest particles to the biggest machine in the world - A voyage to the Big Bang” and the art exhibit “The Fascination of the Origin” by Michael Hoch. A special postage stamp dedicated to “60 years of CERN” was presented and officially handed over to Director General Heuer. The exhibition was complemented by lectures on the challenges and newest results of particle physics. A fascinating presentation on CERN’s success story, given by Heuer, was one of the highlights of the event. Furthermore, visitors had the opportunity to fabricate their own commemorative “physics button” to take home and a chance to win valuable prizes such as the book “LHC - ” (Edition Lammerhuber) signed by Director General Heuer.

Collaboration with IPPOG: Beamline for Schools Four Austrian schools registered for the Beamline for Schools competition. One group, the “Youngsteins“ made it to the top 16.

Collaboration with IPPOG: Masterclasses Masterclasses for teachers in Vienna (22 participants). International Masterclass for students in Vienna (24 students)

7.2 Belgium No report received

7.3 Bulgaria No report received

7.4 Czech Republic Media Report Materials acquired during the Czech journalists' visit to CERN (May 2013) have also been used in the following months. A substantial article dealing with the stories of Czech and Slovak employees of CERN was published in the weekend supplement of the national newspaper MF Dnes, other materials were used in a broadcast by the Czech Radio and

CERN/SPC/1035 7 CERN/3141 published on popularizing websites (Technet.cz). The total numbers reached by the materials acquired during the visit can be estimated at around 650,000 – 700,000 readers and listeners (according to public statistics).

The Nobel Prize in Physics was covered during a workshop session with scientists and journalists held at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, of which live, on-line streaming was also provided. The event was attended by the representatives of all major Czech media, including the public Czech Television, which aired live coverage from the event and incorporated a substantial news report in its main news broadcast. The workshop was supplemented by a popularizing lecture for wider public on the next day. Overall, the event attracted over one million viewers.

Press releases were presented in the original wording directly to selected journalists, some were accompanied by appropriate explanations and additional context information.

Other communicational activities In cooperation with a member of IPOG, a number of schools were approached with lecture offers, and the International Masterclass event that took place at a grammar school in Beroun was supported (March 2014). For the 60th anniversary, the Czech version of an information booklet was produced, along with a special postmark, which will be used during the main celebrations. The main agenda of the national celebrations, which are to take place on September 8th, 2014, has been repeatedly advertised. A number of minor organizational and communicational activities have been associated with these.

Budget Report The contract has been concluded, current expenses having been covered from our own resources in the form of a loan. The money payable from the 2014 contract will cover this loan at the end of the year.

Miscellaneous A spring meeting of EPPCN took place at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague, on 12-13 May 2014.

7.5 Denmark No report received

7.6 Finland Media Report - Media Coverage in general: Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP) at University of Helsinki coordinates the Finnish participation in scientific experiments at CERN. CERN/HIP research appears in articles in national and local newspapers and our science magazines Tiede and Yliopisto. Finnish scientists are often interviewed for radio and TV. In Finland, there is a trusted engaged group of science journalists to work with. Scientific articles published especially in Science and Nature are always reported to the Finnish media who also cover these stories. - The Nobel Prize in Physics in October 2013 received a lot of media attention, as well as the EPS High-Energy Physics Division announcing the winners of its 2013 prizes, which were 8 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 awarded at the Europhysics Conference on High-Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2013), Stockholm, Sweden, on 18-24 July 2013 (http://eps-hep2013.eu/). - CERN webcasts http://webcast.web.cern.ch/webcast/ are appreciated and the media are normally invited to join in for the webcast on the campus with our researchers. This is how we get a local element into reporting a global event. - 6 science journalists from the main Finnish science media visited CERN in December 2013. Arrangements done by press officer Joanna Iwanska and Finnish staff present at CERN, especially Professor Jorma Tuominiemi, were appreciated and the visit resulted in several articles, photos, TV inserts and radio programmes. - There is a growing interest for popularized science in Twitter and blogs. - Particle physics as fundamental for (natural) sciences tackling global challenges is a good viewpoint when working with the media. - About 10 CERN-related press releases are posted per year.

Other communication (and education) activities - The success of HIP/CERN outreach efforts is demonstrated by the great interest in CERN shown by Finnish high schools. About 300 high schools belong to a special CERN network in Finland, i.e. 75 % of schools are involved. In 2013 the Institute was able to host a record of 18 science-study visits to CERN by 427 Finnish high-school students with their teachers and 3 courses for 110 teachers at CERN. These different school visits generate considerable media coverage in local newspapers all over the country: 25 articles in 2013. This work is coordinated by the Finnish IPPOG representative, Ms. Riitta Rinta-Filppula. The summer student programme at CERN represents a key educational effort. During the summer of 2013, 15 Finnish university students worked at CERN in HIP research projects. - CERN hosted a TEDx event, with the theme ‘Multiplying Dimensions’, on 3 May 2013. The TEDxCERN main stage was in Geneva, but Helsinki shared these ideas through a webcast session hosted by Nobel-prize winner George Smoot. Another TEDXCERN@HelsinkiUni is under consideration. - CERN’s 60th anniversary will be celebrated on 29.9.-3.10. 2014. in Helsinki in form of public events and a scientific symposium.

Miscellaneous Helsinki Institute of Physics published a new website, http://www.hip.fi/, in 2014 with latest news and updates also from CERN.

The EPPCN Agreement KE2213 between CERN, the University of Helsinki/Helsinki Institute of Physics and press officer Minna Meriläinen-Tenhu was signed by James Gillies on 5.5.2014.

7.7 France Media Report A particular focus this year was the preparation for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. In France the situation used to be twofold. On one hand, French agencies benefited from CERN communication, which is generally conducted in French as well as in English and they also benefited from the fact that the LHC accelerator is mostly located in France. On the other hand, France’s contribution to the LHC project used to be hidden behind CERN’s name. That’s why CNRS/IN2P3 and CEA have built, since the LHC start-up, their media strategy on coordinating local events and reporting local activities all over France. In preparation for a Nobel Prize announcement, we prepared different versions of a press release including

CERN/SPC/1035 9 CERN/3141 possible scenarios gathering the detailed contribution of the local labs to the Higgs discovery. We were also prepared with a few videos, which we were able to send on time when the Prize was announced. The very good and positive media coverage gave very good credit to the French particle physics community, which is a notable improvement since the Higgs was discovered in 2012. CNRS was quoted 23 times, IN2P3 38 times and CEA 5 times. French researchers were quoted (either in French speaking or English speaking news) 38 times and our individual labs 27 times. The news, quoting CERN and LHC, appeared in France on 8 radio stations, five TV channels and more than 38 written articles. lhc-france.fr was visited 3 more times than usual on 8-10 October 2013. Other communicational activities Web and comics: Our main tool for CERN and LHC communication in France is the website lhc-france.fr. It was launched in 2007 and adopted a new style in 2012. In 2013- 2014, it attracted a stable and large number of visitors of about 5000 visits/month. A key feature of this website is the monthly release of a comics trip « La BD du LHC », which pictures, in plain French and often with fun, the science and the people of the LHC. Among other themes, this year’s series featured the history of CERN (Sept. 2013), CERN’s SMACC (Superconducting Magnets and Circuits Consolidation) project (Oct. and Nov. 2013) and the “the birth of a particle physics theory” (from Feb. to June 2014). The comic strip series is among the most visited sections of the website.

CERN 60th anniversary: Since the end of 2013, our work has been dedicated to the preparation of CERN 60th anniversary activities, which will be launched early this autumn. As a prologue, the French Academy of Science hosted a “Scientific session for the 60th anniversary of CERN”, on 1 July 2014 in the presence of Mrs. Fioraso, State Secretary of Higher Education and Research, of the Director-General of CERN and the President of the CERN Council. CNRS and CEA’s landmark project is an exhibit that will be presented from October 2014 to July 2015 at the Palais de la Découverte, in central Paris. Entitled “Experts en la matière - Regards sur le CERN” it will feature 60 personalities who have a personal story to tell about CERN. Together with many French scientists and engineers, we will also feature a few people outside academia such as a high-school teacher, a designer and a movie director, Cédric Klapisch. The portraits and accompanying photos were shot this year by the prizewinning science photographer, Patrick Dumas. The photo exhibit will be launched in conjunction with the French adaptation of London Science Museum’s “Collider” exhibit: “le grand collisionneur-LHC,” which is also presented at the Palais de la Découverte in partnership with CNRS and CEA. We will also be involved in the related educational activities proposed this year by the museum. At the same time, CNRS and CEA will launch a dedicated website which will guide the visitor to a 360° panoramic CERN tour where our 60 personalities will also appear. This website will serve as a basis for an interactive animation at the Palais de la Découverte. Finally, a series of public conferences and a few other local events about CERN and the LHC are foreseen all over France this autumn.

Exhibit: CNRS/IN2P3 released in September 2013 a historical exhibit “À la rencontre des accélérateurs de particules” which featured the LHC.

Education: CEA and CNRS/IN2P3 communicated this year on the French educational activities (coordinated by the French IPPOG representative). In September 2013, CNRS, CEA and other institutional partners launched the second edition of the collective book “Passeport pour les 2 infinis,” which is the support document for an educational programme. In 2013-2014, it was distributed (free of charge) to more than 500 high-school teachers. A 10 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 dozen labs from IN2P3 and CEA participated in the International Masterclasses on Particle Physics, welcoming more than 50 classes (i.e. 1600 pupils, 30% more than in 2013). Also, in October 2013 for the sixth year, 33 teachers participated in CERN's one-week training programme sponsored by CNRS/IN2P3. In addition, CNRS/IN2P3 continued to develop activities with cosmic-ray detectors in high schools with the support of the French Ministry for Education ("Sciences à l'école" programme): 15 “cosmodétecteurs” (a large cosmic-ray detector intended for long-term activities in school) are currently being built and will be loaned to teachers during the coming school year, while 18 new “COSMIX cases” (a portable cosmic detector suitable for a quick introduction to particles) have been produced (half for high schools in the Paris area, half for CNRS/IN2P3 labs.

Budget Report

Amount spent Reason CHF 450 Travel costs EPPCN meeting CHF 4550 LHC France Website (LHC comics) CHF 5000 Total

7.8 Germany Media Report In July 2014, CERN and LHC communication Germany, together with the CERN press office, invited 17 journalists on a media visit to CERN. The major objective for communicating CERN and the LHC in Germany is the huge contribution of country’s universities and research centres. The journalists met 20 scientists from all of the experiments, theory and machine from different universities and research centres to give them an overview of the German science landscape. The visit resulted in good media coverage in regional and national newspapers and various radio programmes.

For the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 we were able to get messages with a German angle to the media using existing direct contacts, e.g. to the German news agency dpa, and contacts established during the media visit. At a central event in Berlin organised with the Swedish embassy, journalists watched the event together with a variety of physicists and interviewed experts right after the announcement. This was a very efficient and fast opportunity for the press to get statements and reactions. Additional background information was available at www.weltmaschine.de and we sent out a press release for the German particle physics committee KET. The media coverage was huge: one week after the Nobel Prize we counted 275 articles in print, 25 articles from news agencies, 73 TV and 284 radio reports and 982 articles online. In total we reached more than 13 million people through TV, more than 11 million people through radio and more than 13 million people through daily newspapers.

The general interest in CERN and LHC is extremely high in Germany. Various articles appeared throughout the year mentioning CERN and LHC. The subject has become a part of common knowledge and the word “Weltmaschine”, which was coined by the CERN and LHC communicators, is widely used as a synonym for the LHC.

Other communication activities In January the LHC communication started social media activities (Facebook and Twitter) with the focus on Germany related news.

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The travelling exhibition Weltmaschine was shown at open days, for example at DESY in Hamburg in November 2013 with about 19,000 visitors, and at the Night of Knowledge in Berlin in May 2014.

To strengthen the network between the LHC communicators and the press offices of universities and research centres in Germany we invited 14 press officers including BMBF and Helmholtz to a one-day trip to CERN. The visit was a good opportunity to decide on how a future information network could work.

For the 60th anniversary a few smaller events have taken place, which will be followed by a central ceremony in Bonn on 24 September.

7.9 Greece Media Report Translation and distribution of all CERN Press Releases to science journalists as well as post them on the Greek Outreach web site (http://www.physics.ntua.gr/POPPHYS).

Organization (with the cooperation of CERN Press Office) of the 2nd National Media Visit for Greece with the participation of one science journalist.

Other communication activities CERN travel exhibition. Taking part in the preparation of the exhibition in Athens (premises of the Eugenides Foundation), April-May 2014.

Beamline for Schools. Informing the high schools in Greece on the contest and helping the groups to acquire a “coach”. 19 Greek groups applied and one of them won the prize (along with a Dutch group).

Talk presented in the conference “Inside and out of the Laboratory. Science and Technology in the Public Sphere”, Thessaloniki (March 2014), organized by the Department of Journalism and Mass Media Communication of the University of Thessaloniki.

7.10 Hungary Media Report On 9-10 July 2013 a very successful Hungarian media visit took place with 5 journalists from 4 Hungarian media. The Hungarian research team at CERN helped a lot to ensure this success. After the visit 10-20 articles were produced by the journalists, and it is probable that the huge media coverage of the Nobel-prize was at least partly thanks to this “preparation”. Press releases and news from CERN were forwarded to the Hungarian media throughout the period.

CERN's 60th anniversary The opening ceremony of the Hungarian CERN60 programme jointly organized by Wigner RCP and Loránd Eötvös University (ELTE) was held on 27 May 2014 in the parking lot of the ELTE Campus in Lágymányos, with the participation of Prof. Rolf Heuer, CERN’s Director-General. The "Multicolour Physics” interactive educational bus was presented there, created by a coordinated effort of the Centre for Energy Research of the H.A.S, the Research Centre for Natural Sciences TTK of the H.A.S. and the KFKI Technology Park Ltd. After the 12 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 opening, a lecture was given by Rolf Heuer in the Eötvös Hall of the ELTE. From mid- September the bus will go around in the bigger Hungarian cities arousing interest for physics among (not only) young people.

On 27-28 September 2014, two days of Open days will be held at the premises of the Wigner Research Center to raise public awareness of the CERN60 anniversary.

Other communication activities On 10-17 August 2013 (as every year since 2006) 40 physics teachers visited CERN http://education.web.cern.ch/education/Chapter1/Page3_HU.html.

Every year many Hungarian high-school students visit CERN during the summer, thanks to their teachers’ knowledge about the infrastructure.

Beamline for schools: six Hungarian schools took part in the competition, unfortunately none of them succeeded.

Budget Report (period 1.1.2013-30.06.2014) Amount spent Reason 0 ----

7.11 Israel Media Report April 28-May 1, 2014: A very fruitful and successful National Media Visit including 11 (!!) Israeli media professionals representing a variety of communications media: printed newspapers, online publishing, popular-science magazines and radio. Importantly, the mission included representatives from 3 major daily newspapers serving Israeli society minorities: o "Vesti", the major Russian language daily; o "El Saynara", one of two largest Arab language dailies, based in Nazareth Galilee; o "Yated Ne'eman"- a central ultra-orthodox Jewish (“Haredy”) daily. The visit was organized by the Communications department of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities with the valuable assistance of the CERN Press Office! The materials were prepared, translated, customized and forwarded from CERN to the Israeli media. We also organized and coordinated the participation of 10 Israeli scientists (senior scientists, Post-Docs as well as Ph.D. students) to meet the mission in CERN. These meetings included lectures for the journalists as well as personal interviews which were later published in the Israeli press. The following media coverage was massive, resulting in 17 extensive articles within the first couple of weeks, and some more are still to follow. Forwarding CERN's Press Releases by translating to Hebrew, where needed, including explanations and/or follow-up with the journalists. Follow-up and Hebrew support of the 2013 Physics Nobel Prize attribution to François Englert and Peter Higgs.

CERN/SPC/1035 13 CERN/3141 Other communication activities Initiation and follow-up of the festive Flag-Raising Ceremony at CERN (January 15th 2015) celebrating Israel’s official admission as the 21st Member State of CERN. The Media coverage was combined within CERN’s 60th Anniversary celebration, enjoying a wide coverage in the country. Supported 3 Israeli national “Teachers and Pupils” group visits to CERN. The visit of one of these groups was held, deliberately, during the above mentioned Israel Media visit in May, exposing the educational activities of CERN to these journalists, who had the opportunity to meet and interview the school students during their visit to CERN. The Israel Academy partnered and assisted in organizing the RECFA visit to Israel and as part of this and CERN’s 60th anniversary. The Director-General of CERN, Prof. Rolf Heuer, was invited to give a public talk during a festive symposium held in Tel Aviv on 10 April 2014. The guest of honour, Prof. Heuer talked about the special role that CERN has played in the world and mentioned Israel's involvement and contributions. The symposium was attended by 200 people from different backgrounds including 8 journalists from various national media organizations; they were given the opportunity to meet Prof. Heuer. Following this, the weekend edition of "HA'ARETZ"- Israel's most important newspaper- published a full interview with Prof. Heuer. In the autumn of 2013 and spring of 2014, participated in the EPPCN meetings in Geneva and Prague, respectively.

Miscellaneous Started working on planning a major project: Fame-Lab-CERN in Israel 2014-2015. We established the steering-committee with significant partners- including the Israeli physics community, the Israeli science museums and the 4 universities involved with CERN.

7.12 Italy Media Report The INFN press office customizes and forwards to the media both CERN press releases and news. A well-attended media event was organized for the 2013 Nobel Prize announcement at INFN’s headquarters via videoconference with scientists from CERN. The National media visit took place in March 2014 followed by another media visit by Rai for the show Nautilus.

Web and social media Current updates appear on the Italian website dedicated to the LHC: http://lhcitalia.infn.it, and though social media activities on LHC through the INFN’s Facebook page and twitter account.

Events and 60 years celebrations Two events were organized for the 60 years celebration, both in Pistoia in February 2014, “Higgs in tour” and “Quello che non so”. The former was a public lecture while the second one consisted of an experiment-based outreach show.

Public events concerning the Higgs and the LHC Other events concerning the Higgs were organized during the year. The main ones are the following: September 2013 – Festival of Philosophy – public conference with Fernando 14 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 Ferroni (INFN) and Stavros Katsanevas (CNRS); September 2013 – Origins: public event: in collaboration with CERN, ESA, ESO, UNESCO and INAF; November 2013 - Genoa Science Festival “Quello che non so”: a public event that merges art and science.

7.13 Netherlands Media Report In October 2013, together with the CERN press office the National Institute for Subatomic Physics Nikhef invited Dutch journalists from print, radio and online media to visit CERN as part of the National Media Visits Programme. Nine journalists from prestigious national newspapers and science media, accepted this invitation. The Dutch Media Visit was much appreciated by the journalists and was followed by good media coverage in the days and weeks after the visit.

Throughout the year, Nikhef research regularly appeared in articles in various national and regional newspapers and science magazines. Nikhef researchers were interviewed on several science radio programmes. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2013, in particular, received a lot of media attention.

Other communication (and education) activities During the Long Shutdown 1, numerous guided tours were organized at CERN for various Dutch groups (e.g. State Secretary Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and his delegation, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, funding agencies, university board members, etc.)

On 26 June Nikhef organised a festive symposium in Amsterdam on the occasion of CERN’s 60th anniversary. Guest of honour Rolf Heuer, Nikhef-director Frank Linde and other inspiring speakers talked about the special role that CERN has played in the world. The symposium was attended by 200 people from many different backgrounds. Twelve journalists from various national newspapers and science magazines attended; they were given the opportunity to interview the speakers.

During June and July 2014, visitors to the Science Centre NEMO in Amsterdam were able to find out more about the LHC in CERN’s new interactive LHC tunnel display. Many visitors, mostly children, enjoyed playing football with protons and were very enthusiastic about this new CERN exhibition, which was brought to Holland at the invitation of Nikhef and with the generous support of CERN.

In the past year, 13 teachers attended the annual Dutch CERN Teacher Programme, organised by Nikhef and CERN, and over 60 students participated in the IPPOG International Masterclass on Particle Physics held at Nikhef, both in Amsterdam and Nijmegen.

Six Dutch school teams submitted proposals for the Beamline for Schools competition. Most of the teams were supported by Nikhef-researchers. The team from the Dominicus College in Nijmegen won the competition together with a team from a Greek school.

Budget Report (period 1.1.2013-30.06.2014)

Amount spent Reason CHF 1200 Travel costs EPPCN meetings

CERN/SPC/1035 15 CERN/3141 CHF 2200 Dutch National Media Visit CHF 3100 Participation in preparing communication activities for Council Meeting May 2013 Brussels CHF 1000 NL-adaptation of CERN press releases

7.14 Norway Media Report The Communications department of the Research Council of Norway (RCN) has translated, customized and forwarded press releases and news from CERN to the Norwegian media throughout the period. We also organized a media visit to CERN in November 2013, which was very successful. Ten journalists from major Norwegian newspapers, radio and scientific journals participated, and the media coverage afterwards was substantial. The media visit resulted in 36 extensive articles within the first couple of weeks, more followed throughout 2013, with a new peak in the media coverage of CERN in connection with the official 2013 Nobel Prize ceremony.

CERN's 60th anniversary Norway's plans for promoting 60th anniversary are geared towards the media and general public. The EPPCN-member has therefore spent quite a bit of time and resources on that. We have been working to get media coverage of the anniversary, and are organizing two events in Oslo and Tromsø in connection with the annual Science Week (17th – 28th September 2014). The events include showing the film Particle Fever with an introduction from Norwegian CERN-scientists. The producer of the film will also be present.

Other communication activities Norway participated in the Competition 'Beamline for schools'. The Research Council of Norway was involved in promoting the competition in relevant media and towards schools via our network of teachers.

Budget Report

Amount Spent Reason CHF 450 Travel costs EPPCN meeting (May 2013)

7.15 Poland

Media Report Disseminated selected CERN Press Releases translated to Polish and/or amended with stories with a national flavour to over 100 newsrooms and journalists countrywide (selection of releases based mainly on relevance and connection to Polish contribution), making them available on the web sites of participating institutions. Wide media coverage of the 2013 Physics Nobel Prize for François Englert and Peter Higgs. Hot headlines were followed by larger publications in the following days, often based on interviews with contacted physicists. 16 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 Organized the National Media Visit days for Poland with the participation of 13 Polish journalists representing press, radio, TV and internet media (November 2013) with support from the CERN Press Office. Occasional media support related to Agnieszka Zalewska’s presidency of the CERN Council.

Other communication activities Participated in the “Noc Naukowców” Open Day on the 27th September 2013 presenting the “Higgs Mechanism” at the open panel on “Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Nature”. Animated the open discussion panel after public screening of the “Particle Fever” movie during the Cracow Film Festival (30 May 2014). Supported the Polish IPPOG representatives in calling for and identifying Polish school teams in the competition “Beamline for Schools@CERN”. 10 Polish teams qualified for the competition and one got shortlisted as one of 16 best proposals. In the autumn of 2013 and spring of 2014 participated in the EPPCN meetings at CERN and Prague, respectively.

Miscellaneous CERN’s travelling exhibition was on display in the Copernicus Centre in Warsaw from 10 October 2013 to 30 March 2014. It also made the venue for the Polish celebrations of CERN’s 60th anniversary. The central event took place on 8 February 2014 with a public lecture by Rolf Heuer. The Cracow Science Festival, which took place in May 2014 on the Main Market Square, once again provided an opportunity to make publicity for the fundamental research undertaken at CERN.

7.16 Portugal Media Report Forwarded all CERN Press Releases (with translation and/or follow-up with journalists on some more popular or Portugal-centric news); organized the National Media Visit days for Portugal with three print journalists and one TV reporter in September 2013, with the [great] help of the CERN Press Office; live follow-up (and support to Portuguese journalists) of the 2013 Physics Nobel Prize attribution to François Englert and Peter Higgs.

Other communication activities Organized the first event in Portugal in the context of the CERN60 Celebrations with a very well attended talk by Sergio Bertolucci (250 participants overcrowding the auditorium), at the University of Minho, Braga, on 29 January 2014. Supported – also in the context of IPPOG – the Portuguese national teams in the Beamline for Schools competition, after preparing and sending the communication, and engaging several teachers. Seven Portuguese teams participated in the competition from the registration to the final proposal. In the autumn of 2013 and spring of 2014, participated in the EPPCN meetings at CERN and Prague, respectively.

Budget Report (in CHF) – period 1.1.2013-30.06.2014

Amount spent Reason 1600,00 Travel costs EPPCN Meetings 1400,00 Translations CERN press releases

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2000,00 Other items (EPPCN Activities) 5000,00 Total

7.17 Russia No report received

7.18 Serbia Media Report a. Journalists from selected local newspapers were invited to participate in a National Media Visit to CERN which took place on 25-26 February 2014. Seven journalists joined this trip and the visit was followed by a series of good quality articles. During the visit the Framework Collaboration Agreement was signed between CERN and Institute of Physics Belgrade and CERN and Faculty of Physics – University of Belgrade, followed by a press conference. b. Selected CERN Press Releases are translated to Serbia and communicated to various printed, visual and online media.

Other communication activities c. Masterclasses at the University of Belgrade and University of Novi Sad were organized on 1 April and 5 April, respectively. Special press releases were prepared and issued to advertise these events. d. The Committee for Collaboration with CERN of the Republic of Serbia was presented at the “58th International Fair of Technique and Technical Achievements” which took place on 12 – 16 May 2014. Serbian researchers working on CERN experiments welcomed visitors at a dedicated booth, explaining their work at CERN, contributions of Serbian companies in building the machine, and CERN’s contribution to industrial and technological advances worldwide. Local companies were also introduced to the opportunities to apply to CERN tenders, which became open in the past few years. e. Preparation of the CERN in Serbia exhibition, together with the Centre of Promotion of Science, which is to be held from 10 – 19 September. This exhibition is aiming to raise the publicity of CERN’s 60th Anniversary celebration.

Budget Report (period 1.1.2013-30.06.2014)

Amount spent Reason CHF 600 Travel costs EPPCN meeting CHF 1000 Translations CERN press releases CHF 3400 National Media visit

7.19 Slovakia Media Report Visit by Slovak media and 11 journalists to CERN on 19-23 November 2013: 18 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 RTVS (Slovak national radio) 4, TASR (National news agency) 1, SME (National daily) 2, Lumen (Christian national radio) 1, Žilinský večerník (Regional weekly) 2, www.banskabystrica24.sk (web Portal) 1, EPPCN representative for Slovakia: Ivan Melo, University of Žilina. The following lists some of the articles published after the visit including a very popular photo coverage of the visit by SME (the last link in the list): http://skolskyservis.teraz.sk/zaujimavosti/veda-heuer-cern-zeneva/7406-clanok.html http://www.teraz.sk/magazin/heuer-cern-veda/69703-clanok.html http://www.teraz.sk/zahranicie/izrael-cern-clenovia-krajiny/67718-clanok.html http://www.teraz.sk/magazin/nikto-neveri-ze-urychlovac-casti/67075-clanok.html http://aktualne.atlas.sk/cern-je-obrovsky-sociologicky-experiment-tvrdi-jeho-sef- heuer/dnes/zaujimavosti/ http://www.hlavnespravy.sk/veda-heuer-ak-bude-priroda-laskava-mozno-v-cern-objavime- casticu-tmavej-hmoty/176964/ http://tech.sme.sk/c/7031306/vedci-opakuju-velky-tresk-toto-je-najvacsi-experiment- fyziky.html http://tech.sme.sk/c/7029647/cern-my-sme-model-europy-ktora-funguje.html http://tech.sme.sk/c/7028425/clovek-je-na-europsky-superstroj-prilis-pomaly.html http://tech.sme.sk/c/7031320/je-higgsov-bozon-koncom-urychlovaca.html http://tech.sme.sk/c/7032168/pozrite-si-miesto-na-zemi-kde-je-teplejsie-ako-na-slnku.html

Other communication (and education) activities A series of public lectures to celebrate 60th anniversary of CERN by leading particle physicists focused on the general public aged 12-99. Lectures in three regional cities took place in June (4.6.2014, Trnava: “Experiment CERN-ISOLDE: What is the shape of atomic nuclei?” by Martin Venhart, 12.6.2014, Žilina: “ and other animals” by Mikuláš Gintner, 19.6.2014, Banská Bystrica: Ancient soup or how the early Universe is cooked by Boris Tomášik). Two more lectures are being prepared for September.

We celebrated the 10th anniversary of International Masterclasses with the participation of 6 universities in the main international event plus two independent regional Masterclass events organized at high schools. The total number of participants for 2014 was around 300. The media coverage included a report in the Slovak national television RTVS news: http://www.rtvs.sk/televizia/program/detail/4175/spravy-rtvs-o-12-00/archiv? on 28.03.2014 at 8:30 and regional TV Severka news http://www.severka.tv/relacie/128/68/Vyskusali-si-pracu-fyzikov/ and a number of print and electronic articles. We collaborated with IPPOG in promoting the “Beamline for Schools competition”. Three Slovak teams participated and our people also mentored teams from four Arabic countries. www.svetcastic.sk is a web portal under construction dedicated to high-energy physics communication and outreach in Slovakia with the main focus on results from CERN. The portal is aimed at high-school students and teachers, general public, media and the Slovak high-energy physics community. CERN press releases in Slovak are published here.

An exhibition “Slovak Road to the Microcosm” was organized in two cities, Lucenec and Roznava: http://www.svetcastic.sk/cms/newsreader/slovenska-cesta-do-mikrokozmu.html. The exhibition focuses on CERN’s physics and Slovak participation in the LHC programme. There were accompanying public lectures.

Budget Report (period 1.1.2013-30.06.2014)

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Amount spent Reason CHF 500 Travel costs EPPCN meetings CHF 1502 Web portal www.svetcastic.sk CHF 1500 SK-adaptation of CERN press releases

7.20 Spain Media report The Prince of Asturias Award to Peter Higgs, François Englert and CERN for the discovery of the Higgs boson, announced on May 2013, was an excellent opportunity to increase the visibility of the Spanish scientists working on particle physics and the Spanish contribution to CERN. The Spanish Centre for Particle Physics, Astroparticle and Nuclear Physics (CPAN) made briefings and information for media, and managed contacts with scientists to comment on the importance of the award. There were impacts in the main Spanish media: newspapers (El País, El Mundo, ABC, La Razón, Materia), news agencies (EFE, Europa Press), radio (RNE, Cadena SER) and TV. This work scheme was repeated in October 2013, with the announcement of the Nobel Prize to Prof. Englert and Prof. Higgs. At the end of 2013, CPAN organized the Spanish media visit to CERN, inviting 14 journalists from main Spanish media and funding agencies. There was very positive feedback and dozens of news items appeared in the months after the visit.

In 2014, Spain hosted the main conference on particle physics (ICHEP) for the first time. CPAN collaborated with the local organization on communication issues, in the months before the conference and during ICHEP.

Other communication activities After the announcement of the Prince of Asturias Award, the Spanish particle physics community organized public lectures in the main cities to explain the importance of the discovery of the Higgs boson through CPAN. Also in 2013, CPAN coordinated the visit of the CERN mini expo to 9 cities, with the attendance of nearly 200,000 people.

CPAN supports a programme of lectures in high schools in Spain to strengthen the communication between scientists, teachers and students. More than 300 requests are received each year. This programme contributed to the success of the two contests launched in 2013 by CERN: the first one, at national level, received more than 1,400 pieces of work from almost every province of Spain, showing the views of Spanish students about basic science and CERN’s work. On the other hand, Spain was the second country by number of proposals submitted to CERN’s Beamline for schools international contest.

In 2014, CPAN produced the travelling exhibition ‘La física en nuestras vidas’, highlighting the applications of particle physics in daily life. The exhibition will travel around Spain until 2015, with the collaboration of CERN. To celebrate the 60th anniversary of CERN, the Spanish postal service issued a commemorative stamp, following a CPAN request. This stamp was presented during the special session devoted to CERN’s anniversary at ICHEP 2014 Valencia, with the presence of CERN’s DG.

Several outreach actions were planned for ICHEP 2014, with the collaboration of CPAN. Among them, there were a programme of public lectures in the city of Valencia and the 20 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 hosting of CERN travelling exhibition ‘Accelerating Science’ at the Valencia Science Museum.

Budget report Travel costs to EPPCN meetings; CERN media visit; production of travelling exhibition ‘La física en nuestras vidas’.

7.21 Sweden Media Report In May 2013, the TEDxCERN event was promoted on our website; we will also promote the event held in 2014.

During Peter Higgs’ visit to Stockholm during the EPS-HEP conference in July 2013, several large newspapers covered the press conference with web casts, interviewing scientists with connections to CERN.

The National Media Visit from Sweden was organized in August 2013 with two print journalists and one graphic illustrator participating. The visit resulted in 8 articles – the largest magazine publishing six of those, having approximately 270 000 readers.

In October 2013, we published a news item regarding the Nobel Prize in physics for the Brout-Englert-Higgs mechanism to François Englert and Peter Higgs. The news item has had about 680 hits. There was wide coverage in media after the announcement.

In July 2014, we published a news item on the 60th anniversary of CERN, linking to the ceremony in Paris and the anniversary website. The news item has, up until 28 July, had a total of about 950 hits.

Other communication activities New representative for Sweden in the EPPCN participated during the 2014 spring meeting in Prague.

Miscellaneous A small group of scientists have been planning a tour to Swedish universities to present CERN with regards to the 60th anniversary. However, after not receiving funding from their university the status for this is not known. It will most probably be carried through but in smaller scale.

7.22 Switzerland No report received

7.23 Turkey No report received

CERN/SPC/1035 21 CERN/3141 7.24 United Kingdom Media Report A particular focus was to prepare for, and capitalise on, the Nobel Prize for Physics, including preparation of advance briefings for UK government embassies, ministers, senior scientists and media representatives. On the day of the award to Professors Higgs and Englert, STFC ran pre-organised media briefings, leading to coverage reaching more than 25 million people in the UK including 430 UK television news bulletins, and more than 40 major newspapers and publications. Further media work capitalised on the Nobel ceremony in December. In addition to support around science discoveries (e.g. LHCb exotic hadrons), and public engagement goals (LUCID, Beamline for Schools, school and teacher visits etc.), UK media work has also focussed on maintaining the profile of the LHC and CERN and preparing for the restart. We took 11 government and university press officers to CERN in May 2014 to profile the restart, leading to significant regional coverage. We also secured mainstream and social media coverage of the STFC-hosted visit to CERN by elected representatives from the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish parliaments in January 2014.

Other communication activities STFC’s LHC Roadshow was extended due to popular demand, including further visits to a music festival followed by installation as a permanent display at the Daresbury Laboratory. In total the exhibit travelled more than 4,244 miles and was seen by more than 600,000 people. STFC is investing funds to refurbish and update the LHC Roadshow Tunnel, as part of a wider communications campaign in the lead-up to the LHC restart and data taking. STFC hosted on behalf of the national community a reception in the Houses of Parliament on 8 October 2013 to mark the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics to Professors Higgs and Englert. The event was well attended by Members of Parliament, and received very positive feedback from the science minister. In partnership with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, and the Science Museum Group, an event was held in Parliament to mark the opening of the Science Museum “Collider” exhibit. More than 130 delegates including MPs and Peers attended.

Budget Report

Amount spent Reason CHF2300 Travel costs EPPCN meeting 0 Translations CERN press releases CHF2700* Events, displays etc. *contributing to global STFC budget of CHF100000 (approx.)

Miscellaneous We are successfully improving the take-up by UK engineering and computing students (and tutors) with CERN, notably in areas outside particle physics. We have improved from six technical students in IT on undergraduate placement at CERN at the end of 2011 to 18 students from a range of universities and in a range of subjects, and the UK now ranks 4th among member states in the number of undergraduate students at CERN. James Purvis of CERN has assisted this project. CERN and University of Manchester-based PhD student Myfanwy Borland (using LHCb to explore the properties of the Z-boson), was seconded to the UK Parliament for three months as part of STFC’s Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Fellowship Scheme. 43 UK schools submitted proposals for the Beamline for Schools competition. STFC funded two continuing professional development visits to CERN 22 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 for teachers, arranged by the National Science Learning Centre (SLC) in York. The courses took place in December 2013 and February 2014, with 80 teachers in total. STFC has developed a resource pack for UK schools visiting CERN, including information to help them prepare for their trip, contacts for UK particle physics groups, information on masterclasses and details of STFC particle physics resources. Since January 2014 every UK school that has visited CERN has received this pack. So far the response from this initiative has been good; approximately 10% of teachers who received the pack replied to say thank you and another 10% replied with further questions.

8. Request to Council Council is invited to nominate EPPCN delegates for those States with vacant seats: Belgium, Bulgaria, Russia, Switzerland and Turkey. Delegates should ideally be professional science communicators.

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ANNEX 1: Network membership

Country Representative Austria Brigitte de Monte, OAW Belgium Vacant Bulgaria Vacant Czech republic Luboš Veverka, Charles University Denmark Gertie Skaarup, NBI Finland Minna Meriläinen-Tenhu, Helsinki University France Perrine Royole-Degieux, CNRS/IN2P3 Germany Gerrit Hörentrup, Thomas Zoufal, DESY Greece Nicholas Tracas, NTUA Hungary Barbara Vizkelety, National Innovation Office (NIH) Israel Avital Baer, Israel Academy of Science/ISF Italy Eleonora Cossi, INFN Rome Netherlands Vanessa Mexner, Nikhef Norway Synnove Bolstad, Forskningsrådet Poland Pawel Bruckman De Renstrom, Polish Academy of Sciences Portugal Pedro Abreu, LIP Russia Vacant Serbia Danica Stojiljkovic, Institute of Physics, Belgrade Slovakia Ivan Melo, University of Zilina Spain Isidoro Garcia, IFIC; Maria Chamizo-Llatas, CIEMAT Sweden Anneli Saarela, Vetenskapsrådet Switzerland Vacant Turkey Vacant United Kingdom Terry O’Connor, STFC ApPEC Vacant CERN James Gillies, CERN Communication group

24 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 ANNEX 2: EPPCN Agreements signed

KE COUNTRY 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 NUMBER KE2199 Belgium KE2200 Denmark KE2201 France 5000CHF 5000CHF 5000CHF KE2202 Germany In progress KE2203 Greece KE2204 Italy KE2205 Netherlands 5000CHF 5000CHF 5000CHF KE2206 Norway 5000CHF 5000CHF KE2207 Sweden KE2208 Switzerland KE2209 United 5000CHF 5000CHF 5000CHF 5000CHF Kingdom KE2210 Austria KE2211 Spain 4110€ 3873€ KE2212 Portugal 5000CHF 5000CHF 5000CHF KE2213 Finland 5000CHF 5000CHF 5000CHF KE2214 Poland KE2215 Czech 5000CHF 5000CHF Republic KE2216 Hungary 5000CHF 5000CHF 5000CHF 5000CHF KE2217 Bulgaria KE2218 Slovakia 5000CHF 5000CHF 5000CHF 5000CHF KE2219 Romania KE2220 Israel In progress KE2221 Serbia 5000CHF 5000CHF

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ANNEX 3: Documentation The table below summarizes the current availability of CERN general public publications.

Title Language Publication Year General Information English CERN-Brochure-2014-006 Eng French CERN-Brochure-2014-006 Fre CERN Brochure Danish CERN-Brochure-2010-005-Dan English CERN-Brochure-2014-003-Eng Polish CERN-Brochure-2008-002-Pol Norwegian CERN-Brochure-2008-002-Nor Spanish CERN-Brochure-2008-002-Spa Catalan CERN-Brochure-2008-002-Cat French CERN-Brochure-2014-003-Fre German CERN-Brochure-2010-005-Ger Italian CERN-Brochure-2010-005-Ita LHC Danish CERN-Brochure-2010-006-Dan English CERN-Brochure-2014-004-Eng French CERN-Brochure-2014-004-Fre German CERN-Brochure-2014-004-Ger Greek CERN-Brochure-2006-002-Gre Italian CERN-Brochure-2010-006-Ita Catalan CERN-Brochure-2008-003-Cat Spanish CERN-Brochure-2008-003-Spa Swedish CERN-Brochure-2008-003-Swe Polish CERN-Brochure-2008-003-Pol Norwegian CERN-Brochure-2008-003-Nor ATLAS Danish CERN-Brochure-2010-008-Dan Italian CERN-Brochure-2010-008-Ita English CERN-Brochure-2010-008-Eng German CERN-Brochure-2010-008-Ger French CERN-Brochure-2010-008-Fre Polish CERN-Brochure-2007-001-Pol Spanish CERN-Brochure-2007-001-Spa Norwegian CERN-Brochure-2007-001-Nor Catalan CERN-Brochure-2007-001-Cat ATLAS ‘spin-off’ English CERN-Brochure-2006-004-Eng German CERN-Brochure-2009-009-Ger Technology Transfer French CERN-Brochure-2007-002-Fre English CERN-Brochure-2007-002-Eng Swedish CERN-Brochure-2007-002-Swe Polish CERN-Brochure-2007-002-Pol GRID French CERN-Brochure-2008-006-Fre English CERN-Brochure-2012-001-Eng Catalan CERN-Brochure-2008-006-Cat Polish CERN-Brochure-2006-006-Pol Spanish CERN-Brochure-2008-006-Spa CMS Greek CERN-Brochure-2006-007-Gre 26 CERN/SPC/1035 CERN/3141 Italian CERN-Brochure-2009-002-Ita German CERN-Brochure-2013-002-Ger Polish CERN-Brochure-2008-011-Pol Catalan CERN-Brochure-2006-007-Cat Spanish CERN-Brochure-2008-011-Spa English CERN-Brochure-2013-002-Eng French CERN-Brochure-2009-002-Fre ALICE Danish CERN-Brochure-2008-012-Dan English CERN-Brochure-2014-007-Eng German CERN-Brochure-2012-007-Ger French CERN-Brochure-2012-007-Fre Norwegian CERN-Brochure-2008-012-Nor Italian CERN-Brochure-2010-007-Ita Polish CERN-Brochure-2008-012-Pol Spanish CERN-Brochure-2012-007-Spa LHCb German CERN-Brochure-2009-007-Ger Italian CERN-Brochure-2014-005-Ita Spanish CERN-Brochure-2008-005-Spa Catalan CERN-Brochure-2008-005-Cat Polish CERN-Brochure-2008-005-Pol English CERN-Brochure-2014-005-Eng French CERN-Brochure-2014-005-Fre LHCf English CERN-Brochure-2012-008-Eng Italian CERN-Brochure-2009-006-Ita Japanese CERN-Brochure-2009-006-Jap Environment English CERN-Brochure-2008-008-Eng French CERN-Brochure-2008-008-Fre Antimatter French CERN-Brochure-2009-001-Fre English CERN-Brochure-2009-001-Eng German CERN-Brochure-2009-001-Ger LHC: the guide English CERN-Brochure-2009-003-Eng Polish CERN-Brochure-2008-001-Pol Czech CERN-Brochure-2008-001-Cze French CERN-Brochure-2009-003-Fre German CERN-Brochure-2010-006-Ger ISOLDE English CERN-Brochure-2014-008-Eng French CERN-Brochure-2010-001-Fre CLIC English CERN-Brochure-2012-002-Eng TOTEM English CERN-Brochure-2012-004-Eng