Early this year, the HL-LHC and the FCC teams organized for the first time an Innovation Course for young researchers in their last year of association with CERN, CERN Bulletin.

What’s in it for innovators in Hilumi and FCC? Read more: Accelerating News, Issue #24.

On 7th March the INFN-LASA laboratory completed the construction and successfully tested a superconducting coil in MgB2 (Magnesium di-Boride based conductor) to be used in a high order corrector magnet. Read more: Accelerating News, Issue #24.

New kind of collimator developed for the High-Luminosity LHC project, CERN Updates.

The first Innovation course organized by HiLumi and FCC in collaboration with CERN Knowledge Transfer group and IdeaSquare took place on January 31 and February 1, 2018 at IdeaSquare.

The 7th HL-LHC annual collaboration meeting in Madrid reviewed the current progress and set the goals for next year, Accelerating News.

The first HiLumi - FCC Innovation course will take place on 31 January - 1 February 2018.

This is the kickoff event (30st October to 1st November 2017, Main Auditorium) for a series of meetings, running throughout 2018, with plenary events and intermediate periods of working group activities.

The HL-LHC project is progressing in the construction phase. The hardware models as well as the prototypes of equipment in their final configuration are under construction or under test. In 2017, we achieved a number of key milestones. T

A short magnet model for the High-Luminosity LHC project was tested in the newly-commissioned vertical test station in hall SM18, CERN Bulletin.