Libraries Big Bang

CERN joins the Future Libraries Network

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CERN -

Education

Technology

Science

Research and

Development

Panagiotis Charitos

Unconference 2013 2

CERN: The first international laboratory.

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The pursuit of furthering human knowledge

• LHC/ Higgs Discovery: A global media event • Communication and Outreach

• Three challenges i. Identifying/Building audience (students, teachers,

physicists, fundraising agencies) ii. CERN’s international character (more than 130

countries) iii. New media/Digital age

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• Visit CERN!

• Connect to CERN!

• Inspired by CERN!

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Visit CERN: A centre for creative education

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An interactive map: Summer Students 2013

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CERN’s Permanent Exhibitions

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…and travelling exhibitions “Accelerating Science”

Big Bang, particles and matter, LHC, Technologies and Applications

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• A 54km route – 10 different points

around CERN.

• Operate the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and travel to the origins of the University.

• Collaborating with local community and authorities.

• http://passeport-big-bang.web.cern.ch/fr

Your passport to the Big Bang

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CERN Open Days

• Two-day event

• 70.000 visitors (10.000

underground visits).

• 35 visiting points

• Keys to success: The role of the

volunteers & Ticketing system. 15

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European Researcher’s Night– Origins (http://ec.europa.eu/research/researchersnight/index_en.htm)

• 2012: Local Schools visiting Control Rooms of the four LHC experiments – meeting and discussing with scientists.

• 2013: Discussing results from the LHC, Planck mission and ALMA telescope. (Geneva, Paris, Bologna)

• Origins 2013 YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Origins2013/videos

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Connect to CERN…

• ATLAS:http://atlas-live-virtual-visit.web.cern.ch/atlas-live-virtual-visit/2012/PastEvents.html

Started in 2010

Teleconferencing system

200 visits in 2013

• Increasing number both from E.U. members and from America, Africa and the Asia-Pacific Region.

• CMS and ALICE recently started their own programme of virtual visits through Vidyo.

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Google Hangouts

• 2012-2013 – A Series of Regular Hangouts with CERN.

Submit your question: YouTube, FB, twitter, reddit.

Webpage (recordings,announcements): http://hangouts.web.cern.ch/

• Teach your class from the LHC: http://youtube/_srNfWdOiqI?t=4m28s

• Walk around the detectors of the four LHC experiments: https://www.google.com/maps/views/streetview/cern?gl=us&hl=en-us

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Social Media and Applications

• CERN and the outreach groups of (ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, LHCb) have their own social media accounts (twitter, facebook, G+)

CERN held a tweetup on Friday 27 September 2013, on the eve of the CERN Open Days..(http://communications.web.cern.ch/cern-tweetup)

• Android και iOS: CERN app (SFT group), OpenDays app (ΙΤ group), a.o.

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Future Challenges...

• Reach an increasingly diverse audience

• Digital technologies – Is something changing in the form of the message?

• Creating a culture of communications; An invitation to scientists and researchers.

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Inspired by CERN…

• Physics/Science as part of modern culture – Opening new spaces of dialogue.

• Translating/Interpreting research results

- different language/codes

- marginalized/excluded groups

- a more active audience

• Mediating between the local and the global: CERN and Future Libraries

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Big Bang Libraries

• Creativity Marathon: 06&07 December

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Μedia Lab Ilioupolis

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Science:

• New spaces of dialogue

• Cultivates imagination and ignites creativity

• Based on Collaboration

• Public Results and easily accessible

• ….remember that CERN is YOUR laboratory

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THANK YOU!

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