Definition

CERN’s education activities promote the conceptual understanding of CERN’s scientific domains (e.g. physics and engineering) and how the nature of science (e.g. “science is a social endeavour”) is facilitated by Open Science practices. Specifically, CERN’s training activities promote the building of capacity on Open Science related activities/practices. Complementing this, CERN’s outreach activities promote awareness of CERN’s field of research and research methods emphasising Open Science activities/practices.

Goals

CERN is committed to developing training courses to facilitate the adoption of open science and equip researchers and supporting personnel at all levels with the necessary skills and expertise to conduct research in an open and reusable (FAIR) way. Furthermore, CERN commits to facilitating the use of open educational material in teaching/education at schools and universities. CERN encourages the preparation of resources to engage pupils and teachers, both inside and outside the classroom setting, in interactive learning exercises with open datasets and software products. Wherever possible, CERN links open data, software, hardware and additional open resources to published research articles so that they can be used in university courses to practise research and corresponding methodologies (e.g. statistics, machine learning)

Resources for Training

A dedicated page to collect resources for trainings targeted at the HEP community is currently being built under https://training.cern.ch/.

Resources for Education and Outreach

CERN's education team has compiled a database containing all kinds of educational resources which can be used to learn about physics: https://educational-resources.web.cern.ch/

The wider HEP community collects outreach resources through the International Particle Physics Outreach Group (IPPOG): https://ippog-resources-portal.web.cern.ch/ with a dedicated section on Open Science Projects.

Resources which specifically use Open Data you find here.