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News from the Council

I would like to bring you the main news from the last Council week of 2016, which concluded today.

Opinion
At CERN
16 December, 2016
At CERN
Opinion
16 December, 2016

CERN’s Procurement and Industrial Services Group Honoured

The CERN Procurement and Industrial Services group has been awarded the EIPM - Peter Kraljic Award for Innovation and Process Excellence

News
At CERN
16 December, 2016

Slovenia to enter the Associate Member State family of CERN

At its 183 session, CERN Council voted unanimously to admit the Republic of Slovenia to Associate Membership in the pre-stage to Membership of CERN.

Press release
At CERN
16 December, 2016
At CERN
Press release
16 December, 2016

CERN IT department wins EMEA award

The award was presented for an Open Compute Project investigation into whether or not it could be sent out for public procurement

News
Computing
14 December, 2016
Computing
News
14 December, 2016

AWAKE: Making waves in accelerator technology

The AWAKE experiment has reached an important milestone in the development of a technique that could revolutionise particle accelerator design

News
Accelerators
14 December, 2016
Accelerators
News
14 December, 2016

Accelerating News Issue December 2016 now available

Issue 19 of Accelerating News is now available online

News
Accelerators
13 December, 2016
Accelerators
News
13 December, 2016

Reinforcing cooperation between the emergency services

A tripartite agreement between CERN, France and Switzerland reinforces cooperation between their respective emergency services

News
At CERN
13 December, 2016

CERN plays role in Geneva Gender Champions initiative

The International Gender Initiative acknowledges CERN ’s efforts to improve gender equality

Opinion
At CERN
13 December, 2016
At CERN
Opinion
13 December, 2016

CERN Health Insurance Scheme (CHIS): Monthly Contributions as of January 2017

As of January 2017, the contribution rate of active and retired CHIS members will be 4.86%

Official news
At CERN
13 December, 2016
At CERN
Official news
13 December, 2016

ATLAS releases first measurement of W mass using LHC data

ATLAS reports the first measurement of the W boson mass using LHC proton–proton collision data at 7 TeV

News
Experiments
13 December, 2016
Experiments
News
13 December, 2016