Prime Minister Duško Markovć is paying working visit to CERN

Geneva, Switzerland (7 July 2017) -- Prime Minister Duško Marković started his working visit to the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, where he was greeted by a group of directors of the most prestigious international scientific institution.

During the visit, the Prime Minister will sign a Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of Montenegro and CERN, which will enable Montenegro to become a full member of the CMS Experiment (The Compact Muon Solenoid). It is one of the largest LHC experiments in CERN, which employs around 4,000 scientists, engineers and students from 200 research institutions around the world. By signing the memorandum, the entire infrastructure of the Great Hadron Collider (LHC) with all the accompanying equipment, detectors and computer systems will become available to the Montenegrin researchers.

Prime Minister Marković is visiting the CERN at the invitation of Director General Fabiola Gianotti.

Minister of Science Sanja Damjanović, Vice-President of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts Ljubiša Stankovic and head of the research group of the University of Montenegro who will be working with CERN on the CMS project Nataša Raičević from the Faculty of Science and Mathematics, also joined the Prime Minister on his visit to the CERN.

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