Torsten Åkesson, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, et José Manuel Silva Rodriguez

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The European Research Area is significantly closer to becoming a working reality, with Cern (European Organization for Nuclear Research) and the European Commission (EC) signing a memorandum of understanding Friday 17 July. The two have agreed to work more closely together in several areas, a key one being to facilitate implementation of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, which has been defined by Cern.

The EC and Cern say the memorandum will provide a framework to cooperate and share knowledge in several areas: research programming, training and mobility of researchers, science education, open publishing, technology transfer, innovation, building next generation infrastructures (including e-infrastructures) and global scientific cooperation.

The Area was established in principle in 2000 by the European Union to strengthen European research. When the new memorandum was signed European Union Commissioner for Science and Research Janez Potočnik referred to it as “this single market for research and knowledge that we strive to build.”Several measures were taken by individual countries to build it, but institutional and national barriers prevented its full development. It was only in 2008, following broad  consultations, that a series of initiatives were put in place to make it happen.

Cern is the world’s largest particle physics lab.

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