Pakistan becomes first associate member of CERN from Asia

[kbd-raaf]

For all the people saying that the CERN website does not list or have any news about Pakistan being an Associate Member, next time be sure to check the copyright date at the bottom of the webpage and you would have noticed that they haven't updated it.

@smuhs1 , @kbd-raaf .

And why do you think it hasn't been updated. Oh, yes, because the situation hasn't changed.

 

[XenoEnsi-14]

And why do you think it hasn't been updated. Oh, yes, because the situation hasn't changed.

I sent them an e-mail requesting this information, will post information I receive from them when I get it.

 

[Saifullah Sani]

 

[Saifullah Sani]

it is official Pakistan becomes associate member of CERN

 

[Paksanity]

Mods can we merge two parallel running threads on this subject?

 

[Nihil]

Congrats!

 

[Zohaib Irfan]

RESPECT Pakistan .. Proud Pakistani

 

[Rashid Mahmood]

 

[roxen]

Pakistan is ready to send its nuclear scientists for research and development of its peaceful nuclear energy. update

 

[letsbusy]

home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2015/07/pakistan-becomes-associate-member-state-cern

 

[ghazi52]

.Pakistan officially becomes an associate member of CERN


Published: August 1, 2015

Associate membership status will allow Pakistan to participate in the governance of CERN, through attending the meetings of the CERN Council. PHOTO: REUTERS


After it ratified an agreement in December, Pakistan on Friday became an associate member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

According to a statement from the Geneva-based research institute, Pakistan and CERN had signed a co-operation agreement in 1994. Signature and implementation of several protocols later, Pakistan was contributing to building the CMS and ATLAS experiments.

Today, Pakistan contributes to the ALICE and CMS experiments in addition to accelerator developments, making it an important partner for CERN.

With an associate membership, a new era of cooperation will open that will “strengthen the long-term partnership between CERN and the Pakistani scientific community,” the statement said.


Associate membership status will allow Pakistan to participate in the governance of CERN, through attending the meetings of the CERN Council. Moreover, it will allow Pakistani scientists to become members of the CERN staff, and to participate in CERN’s training and career-development programmes.

The status also means that Pakistani nuclear industry can now bid for CERN contracts, thus opening up opportunities for industrial collaboration in areas of advanced technology.


Pakistan is the 21st member of the research organization. It joins the 11 founding states Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Yugoslavia was also a founding member. Subsequent members include Austria (1959), Spain (1961-1969, re-joined 1983), Portugal (1985), Finland (1991), Poland (1991), Czechoslovakia (1992), Hungary (1992), Bulgaria (1999) and Israel (2014).

Romania is a candidate to become a member state while Turkey is an associate member. Serbia is an associate member in the pre-stage to membership.

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[stalintom]

congrats pakistan to become a member of General Council of European Center of Nuclear Research

 

[punit]

Pakistan's application for CERN Associate Membership accepted
June 21, 2014
RECORDER REPORT

The General Council of European Centre of Nuclear Research (CERN) in its meeting held on June 19, accepted Pakistan's application for Associate Membership of CERN. The Centre is one of the world's leading scientific organisations conducting research on high energy particle physics since 1954.

Pakistan is the first Asian country to become an Associate Member of the Organisation. The only two other Associate Members of CERN are Turkey and Serbia.

Pakistan had formally applied for Associate Membership in February 2013. In October 2013, the CERN Council had responded favourably to Pakistan's Associate Membership and as a first step had sent a Task Force of experts to visit Pakistan earlier this year to scrutinise the application in greater detail. The team had favourably supported Pakistan's credentials for Associate Membership.

Pakistan has a two decade long history of collaboration with CERN that began with the signing of a Cooperation Agreement in 1994. Since then, Pakistan has carried out a number of successful projects for CERN involving a variety of technical disciplines with sophisticated technologies and precision engineering science including the manufacture of various equipment and components of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and associated experiments. Numerous Pakistani scientists, engineers and technicians have undertaken research opportunities at CERN and are contributing inter alia to the repair, maintenance and upgradation of the LHC.

With the new status of Associate Member of CERN, Pakistan looks forward to benefiting from and contributing more intensively to the increasingly innovative and challenging initiatives in science and technology. Deeper involvement with CERN will bring long term benefits to the people of Pakistan and contribute to the country's socio-economic development in line with the priorities of the government.

Pakistan's Associate Membership of CERN is recognition of our scientists working in various sectors related to civilian uses of nuclear technology.-PR

Pakistan's application for CERN Associate Membership accepted | Business Recorder

CONGRATULATIONS TO PAKISTAN.

Must make the most out of it.

congrats! but since there are only two more Associate Members : Turkey and Serbia what advantage it has over Normal members!

 

[zealousman]

gooood