School’s out: CERN European School of High-Energy Physics a success

2 juli 2014

The CERN European School of High-Energy Physics, in Garderen, the Netherlands, has come to an end. The organizers are very happy with how the last two weeks went. Nikhef-researcher Olya Igonkina is one of them: “I have only heard positive responses from the students about the scientific programme. There was a lot to learn, and I hope the students have gained an extra sense of enthusiasm for the field of high-energy physics.”

Koen Oussoren was one of the students at ESHEP: “I have learned a lot from the interesting lectures and even with subjects that I am not that familiar with, such as neutrinos, the lecturers were able to fascinate me right to the end!"

One special part of the programme was an outreach training for the students on June 20th. The training was provided by a media training company and focused on communicating clearly and concisely with non-specialist audiences. Part of the training were practice interviews with journalist Hugh Schofield, a correspondent for BBC Paris. On 29 June the students presented their outreach projects to a jury of people who work in science communication and journalism. 

The European School is targeted at students in experimental HEP who are in the final years of work towards their PhDs. The school is held in a different CERN member state every year, and last took place in the Netherlands in 1989.