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Access card at CERN: rules and good practice
Voir en français Your access card is personal and plays a key role in ensuring collective security at CERN Whether you are a staff member, contractor, retiree, family member or a member of a CERN club, you hold a personal CERN access card.
Travelling to the UK? Do you need an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA)?
Electronic Travel Authorisations (ETAs) – a digital permission to visit or transit through the UK – are being introduced for visitors to the UK who do not have a British or Irish passport. An ETA is now required for many nationalities that did not previously require a visa or other pre-approval for travel to the UK. Starting 2 April 2025, travellers who travel visa-free will require an ETA to enter or transit/layover through the UK.
CERN Security Policy
CERN is committed to maintaining a secure environment for its personnel, site and assets. In line with this commitment, the Director-General has adopted the CERN Security Policy in order to set out the framework for the physical protection of CERN personnel and any other contributors on the CERN site, of the CERN site itself and of the property and assets in the Organization’s custody.
Fraudulent telephone calls: warning from the Swiss authorities
The Swiss Mission has informed CERN that the Geneva police force regularly receives reports of fraudulent telephone calls from scammers posing as bank employees, police officers or representatives of the authorities. The Geneva police force warns the public to beware of such scams and advises anyone receiving a seemingly fraudulent telephone call to hang up immediately and avoid communicating any personal or banking details.
CERN welcomes Romania as its twenty-second Member State
On 17 July 2016, Romania became the twenty-second Member State of CERN On 17 July 2016, Romania became the twenty-second Member State of CERN, having acceded to the Organization's founding Convention, deposited with UNESCO. The notification by UNESCO of Romania’s accession to the Convention brings to a conclusion the formal application process that started in 2008, crowning a period of cooperation stretching back 25 years.
30 years of a free and open Web
30 April 2023 marks 30 years since the release of the World Wide Web software to the public Exactly 30 years ago, on 30 April 1993, CERN made an important announcement. Walter Hoogland and Helmut Weber, respectively the Director of Research and Director of Administration at the time, decided to publicly release the tool that Tim Berners-Lee had first proposed in 1989 to allow scientists and institutes working on CERN data all over the globe to share information accurately and quickly.
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