{"id":20396,"date":"2021-04-15T13:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T07:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=20396"},"modified":"2021-04-15T13:30:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T07:45:53","slug":"latvia-to-join-cern-as-an-associate-member-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/latvia-to-join-cern-as-an-associate-member-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Latvia to join CERN as an Associate Member State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Geneva\u2014 Representatives of CERN and the Republic of Latvia gathered in a virtual ceremony today to sign an Agreement admitting Latvia into the Organization as an Associate Member State.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Associate Membership will enter into force once CERN has been informed that all the necessary accession and ratification processes have been completed by Latvia.\u00a0Latvia\u00a0is the third of the Baltic States to join the CERN family after agreements were signed with Lithuania and Estonia in recent years. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are delighted to welcome Latvia as a new Associate Member State,\u201d said Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General, at the signing ceremony. \u201cThe present Agreement contributes to strengthening the ties between CERN and Latvia, thereby offering  opportunities for the further growth of particle physics in Latvia through partnership in research, technological development and education.\u201d   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs we become CERN\u2019s newest Associate Member State, we look forward to enhancing our contribution to the Organization\u2019s major scientific endeavours, as well as to investing the unparalleled scientific and technological excellence gained by this membership in further building the economy and well-being of our societies,\u201d said Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Kari\u0146\u0161, Latvia\u2019s Prime Minister. \u201cOver the last years, the Latvian scientific community has already participated in various CERN projects, and now the status of CERN Associate Member State will allow us to cooperate closer on advancing the scientific excellence of Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latvia became involved in CERN activities in the early 1990s and has participated, through its leading research institutions, in activities spanning accelerator and detector technology, power electronics, robotics, data processing and other domains. In 1996, this involvement led to a contribution, through the country\u2019s Institute of Electronics and Computer Science, to the Hadron Calorimeter of the CMS detector<\/a>, one of the four main experiments at CERN\u2019s flagship accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider<\/a> (LHC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A series of agreements in the 2010s, including a Framework Collaboration Agreement in 2012 and a Cooperation Agreement in 2016, intensified and formalised the relations between CERN and Latvia. Riga Technical University (RTU) joined the study group for the\u00a0Future Circular Collider<\/a>\u00a0in 2015 and a consortium of the University of Latvia and RTU then joined the CMS collaboration in 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This framework also provided opportunities for Latvian researchers to participate in CERN\u2019s activities through PhD theses and project associateships.As an Associate Member State, Latvia will be entitled to appoint representatives to attend meetings of the CERN Council and Finance Committee. Its nationals will be eligible for limited-duration staff positions and fellowships, and its industry will be entitled to bid for CERN contracts, increasing opportunities for industrial collaboration in advanced technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Representatives of CERN and the Republic of Latvia gathered in a virtual ceremony today to sign an Agreement admitting Latvia into the Organization as an Associate Member State. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-scaled.jpg",2560,1920,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-200x200.jpg",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-533x400.jpg",533,400,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-768x576.jpg",750,563,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-675x506.jpg",675,506,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-1536x1152.jpg",1536,1152,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-2048x1536.jpg",2048,1536,true],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-scaled.jpg",1067,800,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-scaled.jpg",760,570,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-scaled.jpg",600,450,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-scaled.jpg",600,450,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-760x490.jpg",760,490,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-550x360.jpg",550,360,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-95x65.jpg",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-scaled.jpg",640,480,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-scaled.jpg",96,72,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cern-and-republic-of-latvia-gathered-scaled.jpg",150,113,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"Culture<\/a> News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}