Serbia becomes full member of CERN, economy to benefit too

Source: eKapija Monday, 17.12.2018. 09:18
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The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) unanimously adopted the resolution on the acceptance of Serbia as the 23rd member of this largest scientific organization in Europe at its 191st session. The full membership of Serbia will become effective after the completion of the internal procedure in the country and the registration process at the UNESCO, which ratifies member-states.

– Personally, I think that this is one of the most important events for our state in recent history – said Dr Petar Adzic, Serbia's representative at the CERN Council and the president of the state's Commission for Cooperation with CERN.

– Serbia is the successor of former Yugoslavia, which signed the founding convention together with 11 Western European countries in 1953 and then officially became one of the founding members of CERN on September 29, 1954. Serbia then left the organization in 1962, getting observer status. Keeping that in mind, it could be said that, in a way, our country has returned to the CERN family after more than 55 years – Adzic says and notes that the acceptance process took 10 years.

Formally, Serbia renewed its cooperation with CERN in 2001, when it signed the Cooperation Agreement, which allowed Serbian physicists to start working on ATLAS and CMS experiments and take part in the Higgs boson project.

In the following years, researchers from Serbia become increasingly involved in CERN projects. In 2012, Serbia became an associate member. Finally, in 2018, Serbia was visited by a high delegation of CERN, which then gave a positive opinion on the country to the CERN Council. The Council deliberated on the membership in a closed session.


– The Serbian scientific community has been contributing to CERN for a number of years now. I welcome our 23rd member and look forward to strengthening our cooperation – said Dr Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN.

CERN is an international organization which brings together the most developed European states and aims to research what the universe is made of and how it works.

Several dozen thousand physicists from all over the world work on CERN experiments, along with numerous engineers, technical staff and representatives of the economy. It features the world's most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), at which the existence of Higgs boson was confirmed in 2012.
The official ceremony marking Serbia's membership has been scheduled for early 2019, the press release says.
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