At TU Vienna in 2023, I made the case for a CERN on democracy Research & Development in my TEDx Talk, Why we need a civic CERN.
The basic methodological ingredient for it is already here. Many pioneers and practitioners use it, build on it, and methodologically refine it, in Citizen Assemblies for instance.
This key ingredient for a civic CERN is collective intelligence. The magic formula: When humans are to solve a problem, 1 + 1 > 2.
Today, I was honored, humbled + excited to be invited for a stage conversation with Fabiola Gianotti, Director-General of CERN, and Ulrike Diebold, Vice President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences – Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), moderated by Florian Aigner.
Thank you for having joined us on Tuesday, 20 May, at 19.00hs at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna.







© Photo Credit: Michael Gizicki, Copyright CERN