Technical students, Industry contacts and Technology Transfer

April 16th 2009

Ole Petter NordahlNorwegian Industry Liaison Officer and Technology Transfer Officer ole.petter.nordahl@cern.ch

Norwegians at CERN: Current Snapshot

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Currently14 Staff positions *~.6%

25 Fellow/Associate/Student positions ~4.7%

DOCT; 2 FELL; 7

STAF; 14

TECH; 16

UPAS; 3

USER; 59

Personnel situation: Norwegian staff3

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4. – 5. February Recruitment activity – TrondheimDate

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Students were mostly interested in the possibility of writing their master thesis, but a surprisingly large amount of PhD students and graduated engineers from Non-member

states were also enquiring about job-opportunities at CERN. Furthermore many people are very keen to get information about the LHC and were asking about the status of the repair.

The recruitment stand offered both general information on CERN and more specific details on the Staff, Student

and Fellowship programmes.

During the day we informed approx. 150 students in depth about their opportunities for coming to CERN.

Meetings with selected professors at the University

CERN also had a presentation at Sør-Trøndelag University College (HiST) about the different

recruitment programmes.

Presentation at Oslo University College on 17.02.2009

(~40 students)

17. – 18. February Recruitment activity – Oslo

Presentation at University of Oslo on 17.02.2009

(>200 students)

Recruitment Fair University of Oslo on 18.02.2009

(~100 visitors)

Norwegian industrial contracts

• Norway is a poorly balanced country – but situation is improving

• Main reasons

▫ High economic growth in Norwegian economy leads to: High prices Filled order books

▫ Few companies with former relation to CERN▫ Little knowledge about CERN as a supplier

• Initiative taken to improve the situation▫ Norway – CERN Work Group▫ New purchasing rules at CERN which helps to balance the distribution of industrial contracts among

member states▫ CERN specialists have visited Norwegian companies within selected domains

• Still Norway gets contracts within certain domains

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Examples:

• Fast is regarded as one of the world leaders within business search technology

• In the process of replacing other search engines:

• Goal: One search engine for all CERN information

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• CERN has after extensive testing decided to standardize on Tandberg products

• CERN signed a 1.7 million CHF deal with Tandberg in 2008

Norwegian office furniture

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Norwegian design

CERN stores has visited Norwegian producers

Furniture has been tested and approved by CERN Health center

CERN specialists visit Norwegian companies to find new suppliers

•Steel Mill (Scana)•Cable manufacturers

Draka Comtech Draka Norsk Kabel Nexans Norway

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Technology Transfer 2. - 8. November: Technology Screening Week

•20 master students and 3 lecturers from NTNU Center for Entrepreneurship participated

•A market and technology assessments were made for 5 CERN technologies with help from the inventors and the TT group

•Both oral presentation and written report for each technology were made This information is made available to all MS

•Outcome: 1 start-up based on the Indico/Inviro application

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Norwegian CERN website: cern.ch/norway

Information for:

•Research community•Students•Companies•Job applicants•General news

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O.P. Nordahl