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Over 255 Bulgarian
Teachers, Lecturers
Have Received Qualification at CERN


Sofia, October 13 (BTA) - Over 255 Bulgarian teachers and
lecturers have passed the modules of the qualification programme
at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN),
Education and Science Minister Roumyana Kolarova said Monday at
the opening of an exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary
of CERN and the 15th anniversary of Bulgaria's full membership
in the scientific organization.
CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer attended the opening at the
Earth and Man National Museum in Sofia.

Kolarova recalled that the contemporary world owes CERN the
world information network, and the data acquired at CERN can be
used freely by scientists around the globe.

Scientists from hundreds of nationalities work at CERN and
contribute with their knowledge, Director-General Heuer said.
"By using physics we want to reach the depths of the way the
universe and we have come into existence," he added. He called
on everyone interested to see the exhibition, which presents the
achievements of CERN and of the Bulgarian scientists in the
scientific organization.

In the past years, over 100 Bulgarians have worked at CERN:
lecturers and PhD students from the St Kliment Ohridski
University of Sofia, its Rector Ivan Ilchev said. In his words,
CERN is a solution to the problems of humanity in the 22nd
century. "To some of us this time seems far away, but the
grandchildren of the young people here will live during this
century, and CERN and the people working in the organization are
the connection between the times," Ilchev said at the opening
of the exhibition.