IdeaSquare
IdeaSquare is the innovation space at CERN. Its specific focus is on offering a platform for early-stage collaboration between students, scientists, other CERN personnel and relevant organisations across disciplines. IdeaSquare's activities intervene at the early stage of the innovation chain —what is known as the Fuzzy Front End of the R&D&I process. The activities carried out at IdeaSquare tie science innovation to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and work towards laying out a better future for society. It does this by coordinating selected EU projects, hosting R&D&I projects and events, co-designing prototyping and design thinking workshops, running international educational programmes, and harvesting innovation knowledge.