CERN Education and Communication (ETT/EC) James Gillies 4 April 2003

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3 General Public: Increase the level of awareness of CERN, its cultural value and the usefulness of its technology Schools: Help teachers to create interest for science and particle physics HEP: Inform and motivate CERN staff and users Education and Communication ETT/EC

4 General Public Press Office journalists/yr. Press, radio, TV, Interviews - Documentaries venues per year in European cities Off the road in 2003 for refurbishment Travelling Exhibition 150,000 visitors / yr. ETT/EC Guided CERN Tour for non-scientists, Kids pages, Educational resources for teachers Public Web Pages 200,000 visitors / yr. ETT/EC

5 General Public - Visitors Guided Tours 20,000 visitors/yr. Microcosm 30,000 visitors / yr. Reception + Organization of Visits + Guides Permanent exhibition on CERN’s research and technology ETT-EC Brochures 100,000 copies / yr. General information on CERN, LHC machine, Experiments, Applications, Safety New series coming, starting this year ETT/EC

6 Events + Young Public Special educational events Enhancing the attraction of basic science, in collaboration with ESA, ESO, ESRF... Web-Casting “Live from CERN” 2002 ETT-EC (Sponsored by European Union, 400 kCHF in 2002) ETT/EC

7 Teacher programmes Immerse teachers in CERN and high energy physics Collaborate in developing new techniques for teaching ETT-EC ETT/EC

8 HEP Community and CERN staff Weekly Bulletin 6500 copies/ week CERN Intranet 6 million visitors/year CERN Courier “The” journal of High Energy Physics 25,000 copies, 10 issues/year World-wide distribution Annual Report ETT-EC Yearly progress report ETT/EC

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10 Some BIG issues… ETT-EC Budget New Director General 50th Anniversary Globe of Innovation World Summit on the Information Society Positioning the LHC and the Linear Collider Global coordination in particle physics outreach - European Science Teachers Initiative ETT/EC

11 ETT-EC ETT/EC CERN Council looks to bright futurePR17.02 The CERN Council, where the representatives of the 20 Member States of the Organization decide on scientific programmes and financial resources, held its 123rd session today under the chairmanship of Professor Maurice Bourquin. The election of the next Director General, the Baseline Plan for and a new status for non-European states were among the items agreed. EIB lends € 300 million for CERN's major collider PR18.02 The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 300 million to finance the final phase of construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The EIB loan will also help to finance the instrumentation to record and analyse the high-energy particle collisions at the LHC. A loan to enable construction of this major project was foreseen by CERN's governing Council when it approved the LHC in 1996.

12 New Director General ETT-EC ETT/EC Dr Robert Aymar, Director of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), was nominated to succeed Professor Luciano Maiani as CERN's Director General, to take office on 1 January Dr Aymar, who will serve a five-year term, will oversee the start up of CERN's current major project, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in He was previously with the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). He also directed the Tore Supra - one of the world's largest tokamaks, which is based on superconducting toroidal magnets - from its design in 1977 through to its operation in He is familiar with the challenges presented by the LHC project, as he chaired the External Review Committee set up in December 2001 in response to the increased cost to completion of the LHC. Commenting on his appointment, Dr Aymar said: "I am very honoured by this decision and I thank the Council members for the confidence put in me. CERN is a prestigious institution: I will follow the good examples set by my predecessors and with the help of the CERN staff, collaborators and supporters, I hope to be able to provide the institution with a future as brilliant and successful as it deserves." Joint press conference with Maiani after June Council ?

13 ETT-EC ETT/EC CERN is organising major side event Invitation only conference (~350) Working closely with UN system press officers Huge media opportunity Coming soon:

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