On 27 November 2024, FNRS organized, in collaboration with FWO and on behalf of Belgium, an official event to mark CERN’s 70th anniversary at the Palais des Académies. The occasion provided an opportunity to look back on seven decades of cooperation between Belgium and the European Organization for Nuclear Research, and to highlight the contributions of the Belgian research community.
CERN Director-General Fabiola Gianotti, as well as Nobel Prize winner François Englert, were in attendance. Belgian researchers collaborating with CERN discussed the ISOLDE and CMS experiments, as well as the transfer of technology and knowledge made possible through CERN.