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The first European Strategy for Particle Physics, was adopted by the CERN Council at its special session in Lisbon in July 2006. A first update of the Strategy was adopted by the CERN Council at its special session in Brussels in May 2013.

The 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, announced in June 2020, comes as the scale of particle physics facilities is leading to increased globalisation of the field and as its research direction evolves.

The European Particle Physics Strategy, as well as its subsequent updates, is established through a bottom-up process that starts with a broad consultation of all stakeholders in the European particle physics community. It culminates in a dedicated meeting of the European Strategy Group (ESG), which brings together representatives of the CERN’s Member States and of the major European laboratories active in the field, as well as representatives of particle physics communities from outside Europe. The Strategy is drafted at this special drafting session of the ESG and it is then validated by the CERN Council.

“After the discovery of the Higgs boson, the field is presented with a number of challenges and opportunities,” said Halina Abramowicz, Chair of the European Strategy group. “Guided by the input from the community, the European Strategy determines which of these opportunities will be pursued.”