ITER Events
The ITER Organization plans several outreach events every year. Click on the links below for more information on upcoming events.
Attention small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Domestic Agency in charge of the European in-kind contribution to the ITER project, is organizing an SME Day on Wednesday 13 November 2024.
It will take place in person at F4E premises in Barcelona, Spain (limited to 70 people) or remotely (technical details for remote access given at the registration).
SME Day aims to foster collaboration between Fusion for Energy and SMEs who have an interest in the fusion energy sector as well as in developing a better understanding of respective needs via fruitful exchange.
How to register: Registration will be open until Friday 18 October 2024 (for organizational reasons) at the link below.
Also see the link below to download the draft agenda.
ITER Director-General Barabaschi will hold a hybrid press conference (in-person and remote) at 10:30 a.m. CET on 3 July 2024 to provide additional details on the proposed ITER baseline.
If you would like to attend in person or on line, please contact Sabina Griffith at sabina.griffith@iter.org.
The surge in private sector fusion initiatives has driven a reconsideration of how to optimize public-private engagement. How can years of accumulated knowledge and lessons learned during the design, manufacturing, and assembly phases of the ITER Project be better disseminated?
With this question in mind, the ITER Organization is organizing an Inaugural Private-Public Fusion Workshop at the ITER site in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France, on 27-29 May 2024. The outcomes of this workshop will help to establish priorities and formulate plans for how ITER will engage with private sector fusion companies going forward. The insights gained will also be provided freely to other efforts geared toward public-private collaboration, including for example the IAEA's program for its recently formed World Fusion Energy Group.
More information at the link below.
The ITER Organization and the European agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, will be hosting tours of the ITER construction site for the general public on Saturday 13 April 2024 from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Thank you for your interest; the event is full. Our next public Open Doors Day event will be on 23 November 2024.
The ITER Organization and the European agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, will be hosting tours of the ITER construction site for the general public on Saturday 25 November 2023 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
All sessions on 25 November are now fully booked.
Keep your eye on the ITER Events page for other Open Doors Days in 2024.
Join the world's foremost experts in all aspects of magnet technology from 10 to 15 September 2023 in Aix-en-Provence, France, for the 28th edition of the International Conference on Magnet Technology (MT-28), co-sponsored by the ITER Organization.
See all information on the website below. Sign up is open now.
The eleventh edition of the ITER Games—the annual sporting event for people working directly or indirectly for the ITER Project and for residents of neighbouring villages Saint Paul-lez-Durance and Vinon-sur-Verdon—will be held on Saturday 9 September 2023 in Vinon. This year's choice of events includes cross-country running, football, mountain biking, tennis, kayaking and pétanque.
The 12th ITER International School will be held from 26 to 30 June 2023, hosted by Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence, France.
The subject of the 2023 school is "The Impact and Consequences of Energetic Particles on Fusion Plasmas" with a scientific program coordinated by Simon Pinches (ITER Organization). As the start of ITER operations approaches, it is timely to address this multidisciplinary topic that includes plasma self-heating by fusion-born alpha-particles, the influence of energetic particles on stability, diagnosing energetic particle transport and loss, and understanding runaway electrons. (Find out more about past schools here.)
Registration is open now.
The ITER Port Plugs & Diagnostics Division is pleased to invite you to a workshop on the Calibration Techniques for Infrared Diagnostics to be held on 5-6 June 2023. It is a hybrid meeting, with both in-person and on-line participation.
The objective of the workshop is to present calibration techniques used in current tokamaks, with the aim to streamline the calibration approach for ITER infrared diagnostics.
The workshop is recommended for professionals and students working in the domain of infrared diagnostics for nuclear fusion plants.
For more information about how to participate, please contact please contact Jena Priyanka at Priyanka.Jena@iter.org.
The ITER Organization and the European agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, will be hosting tours of the ITER construction site for the general public on Saturday 1 April 2023 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The event is full; registration is no longer available. Join us for our next Open Doors Day ion 25 November 2023.
The ITER Organization and the European agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, will be hosting tours of the ITER construction site for the general public on Saturday 26 November 2022 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The event is full. We hope to welcome you during one of our 2023 Open Doors Day events. To receive a notification about the next planned event, sign up under the SUBSCRIBE tab at the top of each ITER webpage by clicking "ITER Open Doors Days - notification."
The tenth edition of the ITER Games—the annual sporting event for people working directly or indirectly for the ITER Project and for residents of neighbouring villages Saint Paul-lez-Durance and Vinon-sur-Verdon—will be held on Saturday 10 September 2022 in Vinon. This year's choice of events includes cross-country running, football, mountain biking, tennis, kayaking and pétanque.
The ITER International School aims to prepare young scientists/engineers for work in the field of nuclear fusion and in research applications associated with the ITER Project. The 11th edition will be held from 25 to 29 July 2022 in San Diego, California (US) on the topic of "ITER Plasma Scenarios and Control."
Most attendees will be graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, and early career faculty and research staff working in fields relevant to the ITER program. Although the agenda will focus on topics of scenarios and control, attendees are not required to be working in these subfields.
All nationalities, whether representing an ITER member or not, are welcome. Registration is open now at:
The Second IAEA Technical Meeting on Plasma Disruptions and their Mitigation will take place at ITER Headquarters in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France, from 19 to 22 July 2022, hosted by the Government of France through the ITER Organization.
The event aims to serve as a forum to help coordinate experimental, theoretical and modelling work in the field of plasma disruptions with special emphasis on developing a solid basis for possible mitigation strategies in ITER and next generation fusion devices.
The event aims to bring together junior and senior scientific fusion project leaders, plasma physicists, including theoreticians and experimentalists, and experts (researchers and engineers) in the field of plasma disruptions.
Please see the link below for all information.
The ITER Organization and the European agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, will be hosting tours of the ITER construction site for the general public on Saturday 18 June 2022 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Registration is now closed. As expected, the event filled up very quickly due to a Covid-related backlog of demand. Please be informed that ITER Communications is already planning other open door days events for autumn 2022.
The ITER Organization begins recruiting on 17 January 2022 for the Monaco/ITER Postdoctoral Fellowship program. If you are a national of one of the ITER Members (China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the US) or of the Principality of Monaco—and your PhD was awarded after 1 January 2019 (or you will have received your PhD by the deadline for taking up an award)—you may be eligible for a two-year postdoctoral position in the ITER Organization.
All application information can be found on the dedicated website. Applications close on 1 March 2022.
The European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy, EUROfusion, has created a travelling exhibition on fusion energy that debutes on 8 October 2021 in Marseille, France.
Free and open to all the interactive exhibition, titled Fusion: Power to the People, combines science, art and technology to make a complex topic accessible to everyone.
See all information in English on the EUROfusion website.
The ITER Organization is organizing a virtual Open Doors Day on Wednesday, 27 October 2021, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. CEST.
The three-hour event will be offered in English (afternoon) and French (morning). "Visitors" who sign up through an on-line portal will have a chance to attend a general presentation on the ITER Project, take self-guided virtual visits through the main buildings on site, and browse through a virtual exhibition centre featuring some of ITER's manufacturing and construction partners.
A number of surprises are also planned. (Event recommended for age seven and up.)
Registration is required. Sign up at the link below.
In the place of the in-person 2021 ITER Business Forum (which has been postponed to 2022 due to Covid-19), the ITER Organization will be holding an on-line Remote ITER Business Meeting from 7 to 8 April 2021.
This is the occasion for business representatives to find out more about ITER business opportunities, as well as specific information about contracts and procurement needs for the coming years.
The conference is free of charge, but registration is required. Follow the link below for more information.
The ITER Organization will be organizing a smaller-scale remote event called the "Remote ITER Business Meeting" in April 2021. See all details in the next Events entry.
All application information can be found on the dedicated website. Applications closed on 1 March 2020.
The ITER Organization and the European agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, will be hosting tours of the ITER construction site for the general public on Saturday 21 September 2019 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. We apologize; the event is now full.
All application information can be found on the dedicated website. Applications close 1 March 2018.
A public meeting will be held (in French) in Manosque on 23 November 2017. For more information, please consult the attached poster.
On Saturday 24 October 2015 the ITER Organization, in collaboration with Agence Iter France and the European agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, will open its doors to the public from 9:00 a.m to 4:30 p.m.
On Saturday 30 May 2015, the ITER Organization, in collaboration with Agence Iter France and the European agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, will again open its doors to the public.
This 6th Open Doors Day will give the public the exceptional opportunity to visit the foundations of the Tokamak Complex and walk to the very spot where the ITER tokamak will be assembled.
