If you have received an Invitation Letter, you will be required to pay the school's registration fee. The deadline for payment of the fee is:
Wednesday 29 May 2024
If you have been offered a place at the school and we have not received your fee by this date, you risk losing your place at the school and it being offered to another applicant.
The total fee of the School is 1 700 EURO per participant for accommodation in a single room, for students staying in a double room 1550.
The fee covers:
- Tuition.
- Handouts and a welcome pack.
- Accommodation from arrival day Sunday 8th of September, to departure day Saturday 21st of September.
- All meals, including breakfast, lunches, dinners and coffee breaks; starting with the dinner on Sunday 8th of September, to the final meal of breakfast on Saturday 21st of September.
- All organized social activities (excursions, sport, special dinners, etc.) of which details will be given at a later time.
The fee does NOT cover:
- Travel expenses from the participants' home location or working place to the school location in Hamburg and back.
- The cost of a Schengen visa when required.
- Any extra cost incurred during the stay (including private excursions, private expenses at the hotel and in the campus, private transport costs, private meals, etc.).
- Any cost incurred by a participant not following the official excursion or social programme (e.g. meal cost of a participant not attending an excursion which includes a meal).
- Any other expenses not explicitly mentioned are not included in the fee.
The School will neither arrange accommodation nor will cover any cost associated to extended stay of the students in Hamburg. Participants arriving before Sunday 8th of September or leaving after Saturday 21st of September morning will have to organize themselves their extended stay. The stay at the DESY Hostel cannot be extended outside of the dates of the event.
In some cases (eg. applications from developing countries), applicants may be considered for financial support towards the School fee.
Please note that any consideration of support depends on your specific circumstances, as well as how many requests we receive. Therefore we cannot provide you an estimate before you have applied to attend the School.
If you wish to make a request for financial support, please submit your completed CSC 2024 application, and send an e-mail to Computing.School@cern.ch (before Wednesday 3 April) to make an official request, explaining why you wish to be considered for financial support.
Please note that we are not able to consider an applicant's suitability or eligibility without a complete application, including the supporting Reference Letter from your professor or supervisor.
There are three ways to pay:
- TID - for participants located at CERN and/or with CERN internal transfer capabilities.
- Bank transfer - for participants external to CERN and/or with no CERN internal transfer capabilities. If your institutes require an official invoice in order to pay, please send us an email before making any banktransfer!
- Payment by credit card via the indico website.
TID and bank transfer details will be provided to accepted applicants in their Invitation Letters.
