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Save the Date! The FuseNet PhD Event 2025 will take place at ITER from 4 to 6 November 2025. 

The annual PhD Event is organized by the European Fusion Education Network, FuseNet, as a network event. Meet and greet fellow fusion researchers from Europe and expand your network. The event features high-profile keynote speakers, a top-notch scientific program and the much anticipate PechaKucha contest, where students present their research in 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide.  

All information will be posted on this page in the coming months. 

On site at ITER in December 2024, Jan Hosan went looking for the human in the technological. 

As a commercial photographer who specializes in technological, industrial and scientific subjects, he says he looks to brings out the "aesthetical and the exciting" in each frame, while remaining true to the subject's function. At ITER he captured the scale and complexity of the undertaking but also—by including people at work in the shadow of giant components—the very human story.

You can scroll through his ITER portfolio here, or contact him here.

We are pleased to announce the launch of an online web-shop, the ITER Boutique: https://shop-iter.org/.

Here you will be able to order ITER-branded clothing, office items, travel accessories and more for delivery to your home or address of choice. Boutique products range from simple pens and umbrellas to a mug featuring the Grad-Shafranov fusion equation, T-shirts illustrating the deuterium-tritium fusion reaction or the architecture of the ITER tokamak, and tote bags and water bottles featuring ITER-specific slogans and technical details.

The boutique is operated by an ITER contractor, Synneo. Questions about products and services can be addressed to their experts, here.  Over time, we will add more items to the inventory.

Many of our followers have requested such a shop in the past. We hope you will enjoy showing your support with ITER-branded merchandise.

In December 2024 Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Viola Amherd, President of the Swiss Confederation in 2024, confirmed the completion of negotiations on a broad package of agreements that aim to “deepen and expand the EU-Switzerland relationship.”

As part of the agreements, Switzerland will participate in all three pillars of Horizon Europe (the European Union's key funding program for research and innovation) and the Euratom research and training program. It is under this latter program that Switzerland participated in the ITER project through the European Joint Undertaking for ITER (Fusion for Energy) from 2014 to 2020.

The restart of Switzerland's association to the Horizon Europe, Digital Europe, and Euratom Research and Training programs is foreseen in 2025, subject to the signature of the agreement on Union programs. Switzerland's participation in Fusion for Energy is foreseen to start from 2026, and in Erasmus+ from 2027.

Switzerland will again become a full member of Fusion for Energy, taking part in its governance and allowing Swiss companies and research centres to participate in ITER.

See press releases from the European Commission and the Federal Council of the Swiss Confederation.

--European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and President of the Swiss Confederation for 2024 Viola Amherd at a joint press conference in Bern on 20 December 2024 to announce the political agreement. (Photo credit: Keystone-SDA)