Task lead: Felice Pantaleo (CERN)

The CERN-STEAM Programme is an initiative designed to equip postgraduate students, Ph.D. scholars, and researchers with cutting-edge computing and data science skills, ensuring a vibrant future for the field of research. This comprehensive and immersive educational program focuses on critical areas such as algorithms design, AI, trigger systems, heterogeneous computing, and quantum computing as applied to HEP. Renowned professors and experts from academia and industry will give lectures, seminars, hands-on training, and hackathons to bridge the skills-gap between academic proficiency and autonomy in developing cutting-edge technologies within the NGT project. The Programme aims to provide an enriching learning experience complementing and building upon the courses taught in established schools and events in the field, through the practical application to CERN experiments’ realistic use cases. We will investigate how to make the Programme courses eligible for European Credit Transfer and Accumulation (ECTS) credits.

Collaborations with industry partners will be created to facilitate students’ mobility, and training through internships. This will guarantee continuous knowledge transfer between the NextGen project and industry.