OPER.CBI - IdeaSquare Planet

15 Dec 2025, 08:00 → 19 Dec 2025, 20:10 Europe/Zurich

3179/R-E06 (CERN)

Challenge Based Innovation (CBI) is a project course where multidisciplinary student teams and their instructors collaborate with people at CERN to discover novel solutions for the future of humankind. The projects are an elaborate mixture where societal, human-driven needs meet systemic innovation approaches. 
In this edition, we incorporate IdeaSquare's new flagship program: IdeaSquare Planet (i2Planet).

For more information on CBI and i2Planet, please contact: beatrice.stanimirova@cern.ch If you wish to participate in any of the program sessions or presentations and do not have a CERN access card, please contact beatrice.stanimirova@cern.ch and we will arrange you visitor access.

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

When on CERN site, you can find the meeting venue Ideasquare with this Google-map: https://goo.gl/WNSa6P

Monday 15 December

09:00 → 10:00 Teaching team meeting

10:00 → 11:00 Welcome to IdeaSquare and CERN

11:00 → 12:00 Introduction and deep dive into the challenge

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch at R1

13:30 → 14:00 Visit to SC

14:00 → 15:00 Establishing ways of working

Establishing team expectations and goal setting

15:00 → 17:30 Teamwork Time

Diving into the challenge

17:30 → 18:00 Reflection

Tuesday 16 December

09:00 → 09:30 Warm-up & instructions for the day

09:30 → 11:00 Teamwork Time

11:00 → 11:30 Team Check in

11:30 → 12:30 Teamwork Time

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:30 CMS Visit

16:30 → 17:15 Plenary session/ Progress Update

17:15 → 17:30 Reflection

Reflection and Information for tomorrow

17:30 → 19:30 Apperitivo

Wednesday 17 December

09:00 → 09:30 Warm-up & instructions for the day

09:30 → 10:30 Teamwork Time

10:30 → 11:30 Pablo's Special

Speaker: Pablo Garcia Tello (CERN)

11:30 → 13:00 Teamwork Time

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Short team check-in to check progress on Planet Y

14:30 → 17:30 Teamwork Time

17:30 → 18:00 Reflection

Thursday 18 December

09:00 → 09:30 Warm-up & instructions for the day

09:30 → 12:30 Teamwork Time

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:15 Teamwork Time

16:15 → 16:30 Break

16:30 → 17:30 Presentation of Planet Y plans

Friday 19 December

09:00 → 09:15 Warm-up & instructions for the day

09:15 → 10:00 Reflecting on Planet Y experience

10:00 → 11:30 Working on Back to Earth plans

11:30 → 12:00 Goodbye to IdeaSquare, clean up