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Latin America: 8 Countries

22 Universities

                   

Argentina

                   

Brasil

                   

Chile

                   

Colombia

                   

Cuba

                   

Mexico

                   

Peru

                   

Venezuela

Europe 5 Countries

2 Research Centres17 Universities

                

CERN

               

DESY

                   

France

                   

Italy

                   

Portugal

                   

Spain

                   

United Kingdom

Network Objectives• To integrate, consolidate and booster

the collaborations in the field of High Energy physics between Latin America and Europe.

• To provide specialized training for young Latin American scientists

• To contribute to the modernization of physics education in Latin America; 

• To foster the scientific collaboration in Fundamental Physics between Latin America and Europe by using the existing or foreseen large facilities, 

• To contribute to the technological development of Latin America

Coordinator Luciano MAIANI  

  Università degli Studi di Roma,

"La Sapienza"  Dipartimento di Fisica  

 

HELEN OBJECTIVESAdvanced training to young physicists:• in the preparation of detectors, • hardware / software analysis tools for LHC, DESY, CNGS or Auger

experiments, • theoretical Physics .

Technology Transfer

Mobility from researchers between Europe-LA

Outreach: – Participation to the CERN High School Teachers Programme

– Training of the same students by the Outreach unit at CERN.

Applications

HELEN HST 2006 - 2008We are the first three Latinamericans to participate in the HST in

a three-year program

Our main goals from HST 2006:• To acquire the experience and knowledge accumulated in HST program• To receive updated information on High Energy Physics • To gather, choose and translate material to communicate HEP and the

work made at CERN• To share our experience in our own countries, to communicate to others

what HST and CERN are and to encourage others to participate!• To create a network between HST/CERN and Latin American participants

to build together our own program.• To promote collaboration in Latin America between high schools,

universities and institutions to reinforce the developement of science in our countries.

What we would like to do …

• To promote the teaching of modern physics in high schools in our countries

• To promote training for Physics teachers in HEP• To give lectures in High Schools, to general public and to

students at universities • To translate teaching material in Spanish for students and teachers • To participate in differents meetings on education, science

communication and policies on science and technology• To write articles in Educational/Science Communication

Publications and newspapers• To create a HEP-Experimental Network for High School

Teachers: e.g. cosmic rays

A Latin-American HST –200X Creation of a Latin American Committee:

• To analyze the situation - curricula, infrastructure - in each country using the HELEN network

• To evaluate the viability of this enterprise

• To prepare the Project

• To find the required support

The Dream / Objective

THANKS TO

HELEN PROGRAM

(ALFA-EC FUNDS)

HST - 2006