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Laurent BaulieuCNRS (LPTHE), UNESCO Chair
The Increases of Global Knowledge and Technologies Brought to the World by CERN and its Type of Management
[ Abstract ]
This conference is addressed to a general public. It explains the history and the type of organisation of CERN,
which led over a long and persistent effort to fundamental discoveries about the fundamental laws of nature and to
some technological breakthroughs in parallel, while being profitable from an economical point of view. It emphasises that
the general methodology and international politics introduced by CERN can be generalised for solving other big and
long term questions, such as climate, malnutrition, water access, and, in general, specific non-trivial technological questions.
It explains the new methods of human organisation and policy that helped to develop the necessary European global
collaborations, even between countries that were sometimes embedded in momentary geopolitical conflicts and often,
with historical conflicting past.
