Discover a new prototype made at IdeaSquare for the FASER neutrino detector!
Simon Thor is a neutrino physicist working on the FASERν detector. In this video, he explains how he prototyped a jig for FASERν photographic film development.
Learn more: ideasquare.cern/node/487
Want to learn more about the I2Planet learning experience and how Interdisciplinary student groups work on creating a “Better Earth” in 2050 on Planet Y?
Read our newest article on our webpage: ideasquare.cern/node/486
And about the TECH2X EU project here: www.tech2x.eu
At 00:35 CEST today, the Artemis II mission successfully launched, marking the first human journey to the Moon since 1972.
Six Timepix chips developed #AtCERN will measure the radiation environment inside the spacecraft that will orbit the Moon during @NASA’s Artemis II mission.
CERN has 13 new projects funded by the European Union under the Research Infrastructures call of Horizon Europe 🇪🇺
Find out more: cerneu.web.cern.ch/record-year-cern-wins-funding-13-new-eu-projects
CERN to host Europe’s flagship open access publishing platform
Find out more: home.cern/news/news/ce...
Advancing innovation in education, strengthening researcher engagement, or building an interconnected ecosystem: these were some of the topics tackled in the latest TECH2X consortium meeting.
Learn more about it here: ideasquare.cern/node/485
And about the TECH2X EU project here: www.tech2x.eu
New prototyping workshop opens at IdeaSquare!
The CERN community is welcome to put their innovative ideas to the test in ‘The Forge’.
Learn how you can use it here: ideasquare.cern/node/484
Learn more about what TECH2X is and the role of IdeaSquare in it, with this video and on www.tech2x.eu
The actions and activities in TECH2X are designed to strengthen innovation and entrepreneurship capacity at institutional level, fostering pathways between challenge-based innovation courses that are technology driven, and entrepreneurship capacity building to move forward promising projects.
Join the CIJ Summer School on experimentation-driven research methodologies at CERN IdeaSquare in Geneva (8–12 June)
This tuition-free program offers hands-on, interdisciplinary training combining lectures, workshops, roundtable discussions, and an on-site experiment.
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Representatives from 20 Permanent Missions in Geneva came together at IdeaSquare for the third edition of Quantum Unplugged! The event was organized in collaboration with the Delegation of the European Union to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva.
Read more on our webpage!
Only a few days left before the registration deadline!
IdeaSquare Planet is a novel methodology developed at CERN IdeaSquare in collaboration with partners and staff to help participants tap into their creativity and tackle complex problems.
They then applied the same mindset to Earth, comparing possible futures and proposing recommendations supported by qualitative reasoning and rough quantitative estimates. Thank you to the Riga Technical University students for their creativity and engagement.
From an imagined exoplanet to one of Earth’s most pressing space challenges!Students from Riga Technical University joined our IdeaSquare Planet program, where they focused on designing future satellite strategies for the exoplanet Luminis, weighing priorities, trade-offs, and societal consequences.
Through playful activities using basic materials and simulating the transmission of a small picture, the kids learned how different types of pollution affect our world as well as how an image can be transformed into code.
It is never too early to learn!
IdeaSquare welcomed the children of Jardin des Particules for an educational exercise exploring environmental effects and the fundamentals of data transmission.
Open to PhD students and senior academics from any discipline. The program also includes visits to CERN experimental sites and a social networking dinner. Early bird application deadline: 15 February. Final deadline: 15 March
Details and application instructions on the event page!
Don't miss this unique chance to learn from leading experts of experimental research methods:
Living labs: Ellen van Bueren & Marcel Musch
Laboratory experiments: Eric Guerci
Design science: Raymond Opdenakker PhD & Leona Chandra Kruse
... along with various experts from CERN and CIJ
This tuition-free program offers hands-on, interdisciplinary training combining lectures, workshops, roundtable discussions, and an on-site experiment.
Are you an early bird?
Join the 2026 CIJ Summer School on experimentation-driven research methodologies at CERN IdeaSquare in Geneva (8–12 June 2026).
Applications are now open!
Full details and application instructions are available on the event page: indico.cern.ch/event/1622011/
We documented the entire process.
Stay tuned as Nick and Dina take you through the journey in three short interviews.
IdeaSquare is proud to invite the community to come prototype with us!
Welcome to 'The Forge':
A large central worktable for ambitious builds, a modular peg wall for flexible setups, and a space designed to support rapid prototyping from idea to iteration.
Building 'The Forge'
In December 2025, IdeaSquare closed off part of its space to make some major upgrades.
Our newest transformation brings the 3D Printer Studio and three containers together into one large prototyping space - we also gave the machine shop a much-needed facelift.
Call for papers for a CIJ special issue on 'Co-creation'!
Learn more: e-publishing.cern.ch/index.php/CI...
CERN wishes you a very #HappyNewYear!
In 2026, we will prepare for the installation of the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (#HiLumiLHC) – the successor to the world’s most powerful particle accelerator – while shaping the next generation of discovery machines.
New issue of the CERN IdeaSquare Journal of Experimental Innovation!
Innovation is an act of "boundary spanning"—a persistent effort to navigate the cognitive, structural, and institutional frontiers that separate scientific inquiry from societal impact.
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The projects are an elaborate mixture where societal, human-driven needs meet systemic innovation approaches.
In this edition, students from University of Bologna incorporate IdeaSquare's new flagship program: IdeaSquare Planet (i2Planet).
Challenge Based Innovation (CBI) is a project course where multidisciplinary student teams and their instructors collaborate with people at CERN to discover novel solutions for the future of humankind.
