The CERN Innovation Programme on Environmental Applications (CIPEA) has been launched to harness CERN’s innovation potential in environmental technologies. The objective of the programme is to encourage CERN experts to come up with ideas for environmental applications based on CERN’s technologies, know-how and facilities. Some of these ideas are implemented in collaboration with external partners giving rise to impactful projects. In March 2022, the CIPEA programme was launched with a kick-off event.

In June 2022, the CIPEA Innovation Day welcomed many innovative project proposals reflecting the CERN community’s commitment to tackling environmental challenges. In many cases, external partners are also involved in the proposals, as project contributors or financial users of the target results. several projects obtained funding from the CERN Knowledge Transfer fund.