CERN Accelerating science

Innovation 4 Change 2023 edition

Amelie Schoenenwald (ESA Astronaut Reserve Group) with Fabiola Gianotti and John Elkann

Fabiola Gianotti, Director General of CERN, together with John Elkann, CEO of Exor, and other jury members, awarded the winners of the 2023 edition of Innovation 4 Change, an educational programme developed by the Collège des Ingénieurs (CDI) & CERN's innovation space, IdeaSquare. 



Discover how IdeaSquare will form part of the upcoming CERN Science Gateway offerings

The resources developed by IdeaSquare for the Crowd4SDG project will continue to drive innovation through future Science Gateway workshops and masterclasses.
Crowd4SDG participants The resources developed by IdeaSquare for the Crowd4SDG project will continue to drive innovation through future Science Gateway workshops and masterclasses.

IdeaSquare opened its doors for the CERN Community: the start of a new network of people prototyping at CERN?

Last February, IdeaSquare, the innovation space at CERN, opened its doors for a two days event for the internal community. The event offered visitors a unique opportunity to discover our rapid prototyping and multipurpose facilities and to learn how they could get involved.
IdeaSquare Open Doors 2023 Last February, IdeaSquare, the innovation space at CERN, opened its doors for a two days event for the internal community. The event offered visitors a unique opportunity to discover our rapid prototyping and multipurpose facilities and to learn how they could get involved.

Demonstrating the potential of citizen science for monitoring the SDGs at the Crowd4SDG Final Conference

The culmination of three years of Crowd4SDG was showcased during the Final Conference on 17 March, which delivered the results of Crowd4SDG and demonstrated the potential of citizen science for monitoring the SDGs.
Crowd4SDG Final Conference: demonstrating the potential of citizen science for monitoring the SDGs The culmination of three years of Crowd4SDG was showcased during the Final Conference on 17 March, which delivered the results of Crowd4SDG and demonstrated the potential of citizen science for monitoring the SDGs.

ATTRACT showroom: meet the funded projects

ATTRACT showroom: meet the funded projects

The ATTRACT Showroom, a virtual platform which contains the most relevant information about each of the funded projects during phase 2, has just been launched.



ATTRACT unveils the projects that will benefit from its €28 million fund for innovation

ATTRACT process

ATTRACT, a research and innovation project funded by the European Union and backed by a consortium of nine partners, including CERN, will commit €28 million to finance 36 projects from more than 20 countries

ATTRACT is a European funded project whose goal is to develop next-gen scientific tools, co-create new business and market products, increase European companies’ competitiveness, and trigger more and better jobs for Europeans. (Image: ATTRACT)



Crowd4SDG launches its second call for projects on climate and gender issues

Submit your ideas on how to use crowdsourcing to tackle climate-change-induced gender inequalities before 30 September 2021
Submit your ideas on how to use crowdsourcing to tackle climate-change-induced gender inequalities before 30 September 2021 Submit your ideas on how to use crowdsourcing to tackle climate-change-induced gender inequalities before 30 September 2021

The ATTRACT initiative was presented at the Big Science Business Forum 2022

The ATTRACT initiative was presented at the Big Science Business Forum 2022

ATTRACT phase 2 was presented at the Big Science Business Forum 2022 (BSBF 2022), hosted by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the Spanish Innovation Agency. And Pablo García Tello, ATTRACT Project Administrative Office, explained this initiative during the session “Career Opportunities and Pathways in the Big Science Market”.



Cinzia Da Via: “An ecosystem like ATTRACT is essential for Europe”

Cinzia Da Via: “An ecosystem like ATTRACT is essential for Europe”

ATTRACT Q&A

ATTRACT offers an opportunity to study the construction of an innovation ecosystem. In this regard, Cinzia Da Vià, ATTRACT R&D&I committee Co-chair and Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester, reflects on how the environments involved in that ecosystem are the basics for the economy.



ATTRACT Phase 02

ATTRACT phase 2 will include three open calls to support the ATTRACT ecosystem
ATTRACT phase 2 will include three open calls to support the ATTRACT ecosystem ATTRACT phase 2 will include three open calls to support the ATTRACT ecosystem

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