A €24 million Teaming proposal would gather the country’s CERN partnerships under one roof and work on real-world applications
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Estonia is contemplating the creation of a new centre of excellence in nuclear physics that would bring together all of its projects involving CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. While this is partly about building on enhancing Estonia’s research effort, it also aims to create and support more start-ups.
Estonia was the first Baltic country to become a full member of CERN, joining the Geneva-based organisation in 2024.
“At the moment our collaboration with CERN is mostly concerned with particle physics, theory and data analysis, but we want to have more contact with industry and develop more technologies,” said Martti Raidal, a professor at the Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) and the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (KBFI), who is involved in the project.
A consortium between TalTech, KBFI…
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