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Technical students, Industry contacts and Technology Transfer April 16 th 2009. Ole Petter Nordahl Norwegian Industry Liaison Officer and Technology Transfer Officer ole.petter.nordahl@cern.ch. Norwegians at CERN: Current Snapshot. Currently 14 Staff positions *~.6%
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Technical students, Industry contacts and Technology TransferApril 16th 2009 Ole Petter Nordahl Norwegian Industry Liaison Officer and Technology Transfer Officer ole.petter.nordahl@cern.ch
Norwegians at CERN: Current Snapshot Currently 14 Staff positions *~.6% 25 Fellow/Associate/Student positions ~4.7%
4. – 5. February Recruitment activity – Trondheim • 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. 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.
17. – 18. February Recruitment activity – Oslo Presentation at Oslo University College on 17.02.2009 (~40 students) 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
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 • 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 • 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 • DrakaComtech • DrakaNorskKabel • Nexans Norway
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
Norwegian CERN website: cern.ch/norway • Information for: • Research community • Students • Companies • Job applicants • General news O.P. Nordahl