CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) has issued a call for applications for two of its 2025 Summer Student capacity-building activities open to young scientists throughout the world from CERN Member States, Associate Member States and non-Member States.
The first, the Summer Student Programme, is CERN’s flagship project for students pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree in physics, engineering, computer science, or mathematics which annually brings together at CERN students from some 70 countries to participate in a series of lectures, projects, and other educational activities. Visits to the CERN facilities, as well as discussion sessions and workshops are also key features of the programme. Candidates should have completed, by the European Summer of 2025, at least six semesters of full-time studies in the field at university level. Applications to take part in the 2025 programme are to reach CERN no later than 26 January 2025 at 23:59 (CET time).
The second, the Openlab Summer Student Programme, will allow students pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree with a strong computing profile who will have completed, by the European Summer of 2025, at least three years of full-time studies in the field at university level, to work on an advanced IT project and follow a series of IT lectures specially prepared for them by experts at CERN and other institutes. The students also have the opportunity to attend the main CERN Summer Student Programme lectures, if they wish. Visits to the accelerators and experimental areas of CERN form part of the programme. Applications to take part in the programme are to reach CERN no later than 26 January 2025 at 23:59 (CET time).
In both cases, applicants fulfilling the criteria for the activities are to be submit their applications to CERN online, here in the case of the Summer Student Programme and here in the case of the Openlab Summer Student Programme.