HVL visit to CERN 2026

21 Jun 2026, 15:00 → 24 Jun 2026, 23:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

VIP program for Monday through Wednesday. 

The program for the student activities is here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1663243/

Sunday 21 June

15:00 → 16:00 Arrival Geneva

Monday 22 June

08:30 → 09:00 Check-in, collect access badges

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome at IdeaSquare

With the students

09:30 → 12:00 Introduction to the challenge

With the students

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:00 Tour of the CERN campus

14:00 → 14:45 Tour of IdeaSquare

14:45 → 16:00 Visit to the Antimatter Factory

With the students.
Closed shoes required

Tuesday 23 June

10:00 → 10:45 Introduksjon til mørk materie

Presentation in Norwegian. Alternative program for our non-Norwegian-speaking guests

Speaker: Aurora Grefsrud (CERN)

10:45 → 11:15 Introduction to CERN and research done at the LHC

With the students

Speaker: Dr Steffen Maeland (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences)

11:30 → 12:45 Lunch

12:45 → 13:45 Visit to the Synchrocyclotron

With the students

14:00 → 15:00 ARTEMIS session

14:00 Overview of HVL initiatives

Speaker: Øyvind Midtbø Berge (HVL)

14:20 Hangar K and entrepeneurship actitivites

Speakers: Evy Declercq (VIVES), Julie Misplon (VIVES)

14:40 Applications for seed funding

Speaker: Geoffrey Gilpin (HVL)

15:00 → 16:00 Interaction with students (workshop)

16:30 → 17:20 Possible visit to Antimatter Factory

If interest, we can organise a second visit to AD at some point after 16.30. The tour takes approximately 50 mins.

19:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Les Trois Pheniciens, https://www.lestroispheniciens.ch/en/

Wednesday 24 June

08:45 → 09:45 Observation of prototyping exercise

10:00 → 11:00 Visit to Science Gateway and the gift shop

19:00 → 22:00 Fondue dinner

Bains des Pâquis