State Secretary Bjørn Haugstad visiting CERN at the occasion of the 60 years anniversary

60 years after the world’s leading scientists gathered around the idea of bringing the world together through science; CERN – the European Organization for Nuclear Research – was celebrated by official delegations from 35 countries on 29 September 2014. State Secretary Bjørn Haugstad from the Ministry of Education and Research represented Norway, one of the twelve founding states, on this special event. The Norwegian delegation included Deputy Director General from the Ministry of Education and Research, delegates to the CERN Council from the University of Oslo and the Norwegian Research Council, representatives from CERN and the ATLAS Collaboration, as well as the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Permanent Mission of Norway. The delegation was given a lecture about CERN, as well as a tour of the ATLAS underground experimental area, where Norway is a contributor, and the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) tunnel.