Come to take part in an EU-funded challenge to imagine new multidisciplinary solutions to address health issues by using particle accelerators. This challenge will be tackled by multidisciplinary teams invited to stay, all expenses covered (*), for 10 days at the European Scientific Institute (ESI) near Geneva.

Some particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN are the largest scientific tools on Earth. But beyond driving large scientific discoveries, many smaller accelerators are used in medicine to detect and/or treat cancer as well as having many other applications in our daily lives.

During 10 days, you will join in Archamps near Geneva, a team of selected students and young people from different academic backgrounds to imagine innovative solutions on “how can particle accelerators be used to improve human health?”. On the 10th day, you will present your work to a jury of experts at CERN.

To help in this task, you will be offered high-level seminars on particle accelerators and their applications, current challenges in the field of human health and on innovation and scientific communication. Mentors will be on hand to ensure a stimulating environment to discuss these issues.

This initiative is put forward by the I.FAST project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, together with several partners including CERN, ESI, the Hitriplus project, CNRS, GSI, Oxford University, etc. It stems from the historic collaboration between the ESI, CERN and others partners to run the Joint Universities Accelerator School.