Lithuanians at CERN IdeaSquare

21 Sept 2025, 09:00 → 27 Sept 2025, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

3179 (CERN)

Christoph Schaefer (CERN), Laura Wirtavuori

Students from Vilnius and Kaunas universities come to IdeaSquare to widen their horizons and go on an imaginary adventure to a different planet. What happens when you start to push the boundaries, think radically, and challenge yourself to go beyond? How to look at the impact of a project, and what are the different types of values a project can bring?

Students will work in mixed teams, without forgetting visiting CERN.

For more information, please contact: Laura Wirtavuori (@cern.ch)

Directions on how to get to CERN you can find here: https://home.cern/directions 

IdeaSquare is located next to the Globe visitor parking lot, to reach there form the tram, walk around the Globe and cross the parking lot.

For getting access to CERN, please register to the event.

Booking form Lithuaninans at CERN IdeadSquare.pdf

Sunday 21 September

18:00 → 20:00 Dinner and getting to know each other at R1

Run by teachers

Monday 22 September

09:00 → 09:20 Welcome to IdeaSquare

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

09:20 → 10:00 CERN, IdeaSquare, and the Agenda

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

10:00 → 10:45 Teambuilding activity

Speaker: Beatrice Stanimirova

10:45 → 11:00 Breathe

11:00 → 12:00 Introduction to challenge and choosing sub-challenge for your team

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

adventure_lithuanians_25_part1.pdf

12:00 → 13:15 Lunch

13:15 → 14:45 Teamwork

14:45 → 18:30 Visit 1 - SC and CMS

15.00 -16.00 SC
16.00 -16.30 drive to CMS from SC
16.30 - 18.00 visit CMS
18.00-18.30 return to CERN hostel

Speaker: Prof. Christoph Schaefer (CERN)

Tuesday 23 September

09:00 → 09:20 Energizer

Speaker: Beatrice Stanimirova

09:20 → 12:00 Teamwork: Planet Y

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Introduction to Prototyping

What is a communications prototype, and starting to create one

Speaker: Nicholas James Lindsay (Swinburne University of Technology (AU))

14:30 → 16:00 Teamwork and prototyping: Planet Y

16:00 → 17:00 Visit to Science Gateway

Wednesday 24 September

09:00 → 11:45 Teamwork: Planet B

11:45 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:20 Energizer

Speaker: Beatrice Stanimirova

13:20 → 15:00 Presenting Planet B plans

Max 10 min presentation and showing prototype per team + time for Q&A. Shorter per team is ok.

Possibility to do 10min presentation for "overall" decisions

Speaker: Laura Wirtavuori

15:00 → 15:20 Break

15:20 → 16:00 Reflection moment on learnings so far

16:00 → 16:30 Walk to AD and Data center

16:30 → 18:00 Visit 2: AD and Data center

Thursday 25 September

09:00 → 11:40 Introduction to Back to Earth challenge and teamwork

Coming back to Earth_lithuania.pdf

11:40 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:00 Scientific talk: Neutrino research

Speaker: Charlotte Cavanagh (ETH Zurich (CH))

14:00 → 17:00 Teamwork: Back to Earth

Friday 26 September

09:00 → 11:45 Teamwork: Planet Earth

11:45 → 12:45 Lunch

12:45 → 14:00 Presentations: Back to Earth

14:00 → 15:00 Reflection on the experience

15:00 → 16:00 Clean Up and wrap up

Goodbyes and pictures