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Club Overview

AGM in in November 19th 2019 with official approval on 10th February 2020
Since last year the membership fee is 10 chf
In the past, we successfully held online meetings with topical presentations, in-person movie nights, climate fresks, lectures, a hackathon, and have helped ensure the provision plant-based options in the CERN restaurants.
A plan to install an eco garden has been postponed although we welcome anyone interested in taking over
The onset of official CERN initiatives and our club membership turnover has made several longer term projects difficult to maintain

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Environment at CERN

Official CERN Initiatives

Environmental protection at CERN: HSE Unit https://hse.cern/content/hse-env

Objective is conformity with EU, CH regulations, but contributes substantially to environmental awareness and improving sustainability at CERN. One of their best overview events: CERN and the Environment (12-13 October 2022): Overview · Indico

June 2021 -22: CERN’s Year of Environmental Awareness, With some useful talks linked here

Knowledge Transfer: CIPEA Objective is to encourage CERN experts to come up with ideas for environmental applications based on CERN’s technologies, know-how and facilities. https://indico.cern.ch/event/1166768/

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Eco Actions CLUB

Supporting personal initiatives

Tackling environmental issues requires a top down and bottom up approach at every level
Perspectives from Tobias Brosch (Uni. of Geneva) about psychological barriers to behavioural change
Key objective of the club is to address some of these barriers encourage each other at a more personal and social level

Complement HSE initiatives: encourage uptake of review sustainability reports
Motivation: educate via talks, fresks etc, gardens
Share experience of personal actions at regular club meetings
Facilitate or set up additional infrastructure for reduced consumption ( ride sharing, item sharing)

Start by recognizing psychological barriers to climate change. Slide from an HSE event guest speaker: Behavioral changes for the climate transition: Psychological barriers and levers

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Projects Categories (revision proposal)

Events

Raise awareness and educate.

One off or short series but not ongoing.

Each event can be open to members only, CERN personnel or outside.

CERN and Community

Life at CERN: Projects to support HSE making CERN a more eco-friendly place

Service: Projects to identify and work with local regions for a more eco-friendly collaboration

Knowledge Acquisition

Ongoing or long duration where we gain knowledge

Physical projects or research groups

Revision of groups based on experience of how workload manifests. Could merge the last 2

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Outlook

In the past, the most success has been with one off events

Meeting more regularly and increasing membership might enable us to maintain longer term projects

Friday lunch times ( every 2 weeks) for short talks and club discussions are proposed

Thursday late afternoon or evenings

We need more active members for the club to survive in 2024 (else we aim to dissolve)

On a positive note, much interest as been expressed over the last 5 months and I am in the process of following up with all messages

We need a CERN staff member on the committee. I am willing to continue as president ( and put more wok in ) but happy with other nominations

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Committee 2024 To be filled today !

Role	2023	2024 nominations (so far)
President	Sophie Mallows	Sophie Mallows
Vice President
Secretary (membership + tech)		Abhishek Lekshmanan
Treasurer	Emeline Peyrat	Sezen Sekmen
Vice Treasurer	Veronika Zamkovska

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Available Roles 2024

Website, tech egroups:
Communications secretary induction days, social media :
Events Coordinator: Sophie
Dining at CERN: Emi, Sophie
Single Events (anyone - just propose)
Garden Cooridnator
Library of things with Working with CH association La Manivelle, potential collaboration. Project developed during the club Hackathon in 2021

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How to Join

Sign up to the mailing list via webpage (does not make automatic membership)
Join the mattermost
Attend a Friday meeting and bring 10chf as we do not have a bank account and you will be added to a membership list

twint / revolut committee member - details soon

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Thank you for your attention

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Codes of Conduct

Effective and Responsible Communication

Keep all your communication professional, positive, patient and polite. If you are doing something on behalf of the club please check with the committee first

We gain credibility from CERN granting us club status, so use membership and actions as opportunities to make CERN and the ECO Actions Club shine

Inside CERN: be polite and patient when giving feedback or requesting change with CERN infrastructure. Often there are many constraints (financial and structural) that no individual CERN employee can solve in a single action

Outside CERN: be clear actions visible are club based, especially those with a more political nature. Examples: “this talk does not necessarily reflect the views of the organisation”. Or “ Please note this action is on behalf of a CERN club, not t the organisation itself”.

Promote new concepts as solution based assistance for an existing idea/concern of the community rather than complaints or undermining people who may already have the same environmental concerns

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Role and environmental Club in context

Complement HSE initiatives: pay attention to their recommendations related to individual sustainability actions, review and provide feedback of their annual environmental reports,.

Social aspect: a club allows a more personal approach to encouraging environmental actions and improvement of standards on and off site.

As a club we can network with other Geneva volunteer organisations, organise talks by guest speakers not specifically related to CERN activities.

Initiate environmental projects on CERN site such as the community garden that cannot be done professional capacity at CERN . Dedicate time to review of global climate and environmental issues, rather than those limited to CERN

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Project Type: Events

Webinars and Talks ( same day as Club Meeting)

Sophie Mallows

“ Everybody’s Imperfect ” series short talks on self-improvement by members

Other series (to be named) from members and guest speakers from Geneva with expert knowledge

E.g on Fusion Power, on work performed by The Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL)

Workshops

Missing coordinators

Bike Maintenance

Demonstration

Repair

Hackathons

Club and Environmental Promotion

Missing coordinators

Stand In R1and R2

Stand at CERN Relay Race

Movie Nights and High Profile Speakers

Sophie Mallows

Less frequent but usually very successful

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Project Type: CERN and Community

Dining at CERN

Sophie Mallows, Shankha Banerjee

Collection of ideas in document to communicate at key

Advocate for a higher proportions of plant based food, reduced plastic, etc.

Finance at CERN

Missing named coodinator

Where do we invest (Pensions, Banks) and what are the alternatives

Pay de Gex, Meyrin and Beyond

Missing named coordinator

E.g Campaign for recycling, Join Eco Networks Transportation

Energy at CERN

Missing named coordinator

Building representative for lights out, turning down heating

Working on survey for user concern about energy use (bigger picture)

Check with HSE initiatives

Library of things

Mason Proffitt

Working with CH association La Manivelle, potential collaboration. Project developed during the club Hackathon in 2021

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Project Type: Knowledge Acquisition

Garden

Emeline Peyrat

Deep Dive Review Projects

Missing Named Coordinator

CERN annual environmental report **

Agriculture

Alternative Energy

Sustainable Economics