The GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt operates a worldwide leading accelerator facility for research purposes.

About 1,520 employees are working at GSI. In addition, every year approximately 1,000 researchers from universities and other research institutes around the world come to GSI to use the facility for experiments.

GSI is a limited liability company (GmbH). Shareholders are the German Federal Government with 90 %, the State of Hesse with 8 %, the State of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Free State of Thuringia with 1 % each. They are represented in the GSI supervisory board by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the respective state ministries. GSI is a member of the Helmholtz Association, Germany's largest research organization.

The Italian research agency dedicated to the study of the fundamental constituents of matter and the laws that govern them, under the supervision of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR), is the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). It conducts theoretical and experimental research in the fields of subnuclear, nuclear and astroparticle physics. Groups from the Universities of Rome, Padua, Turin, and Milan founded the INFN on 8thAugust 1951 to uphold and develop the scientific tradition established during the 1930s by Enrico Fermi and his school, with their theoretical and experimental research in nuclear physics. In the latter half of the 1950s, INFN designed and built the first Italian accelerator, the electron synchrotron developed in Frascati, where its first national laboratory was set up. During the same period, INFN began to participate in research into the construction and use of ever-more powerful accelerators being conducted by CERN, in Geneva. Today INFN employs some  6000 scientists whose work is recognized internationally not only for their contribution to various European laboratories, but also to numerous research centres worldwide. All of INFN’s research activities are undertaken within a framework of international competition, in close collaboration with Italian universities on the basis of solid academic partnerships spanning decades.

As an Institution working on cutting-edge scientific issues, INFN has a significant impact on the progress of knowledge, on technological development and on the economy of the country. Aware of this role, and of the fact that it is the duty of a public body to share its activities and the results that derive from them with society, the Institute is increasingly committed to outreach and public engagement. The Institute plays an important role in the communication of physics at the national and local level, by promoting, designing and implementing initiatives for the dissemination and promotion of scientific culture, both for the general public and for specific targets. In addition to traditional initiatives, it studies and experiments new forms of communication, emphasizing the fundamental relationship between physics and other areas of knowledge. The Institute also contributes a lot to the training of high school students through scholarships, internships, teacher training and school-work projects.

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Particle physicists in Czech Republic are curious and keen on discovering of all beauties and secrets of the microworld - pretty much like their colleagues all over the macroworld. There are teams of tens Czech physicists on ATLAS and ALICE experiments at CERN, studying collisions of protons and heavy ions. Heavy ion collisions are studied on STAR and sPHENIX in BNL and HADES and CBM in FAIR as well. Czech teams also participate in Electron-Ion Collider and linear positron-electron collider preparation. Smaller Czech teams are involved in neutrino physics research on NOvA, Daya Bay, JUNO and KATRIN, on astroparticle experiments Auger and CTA, on Belle II "beauty-factory" experiment in KEK and on several other experiments focused on various topics. Theorists are trying to wrap their head around topics like String Theory and Quantum Qravity, Grand Unified Theories, Chiral Perturbation Theory, phenomenology of heavy ion collisions, Cosmology and others.

Many particle physicists all over the Czech Republic enthusiastically organize various outreach events for general public. Physics is brought to music festivals or physics meets arts events, general public and high-school students build simple experiments at workshops or as part of big projects like CZELTA, high-school students are becoming particle physicists for one day in dedicated workshops and they are visiting Czech labs commonly. Of course, Czech physicists give engaging talks for general public, write various kinds of articles, give interviews for TV, radio and newspapers and they visit high-schools or even teach special physics courses for interested high-school students. Particle physicists are in contact with high-school teachers via various programs. For example, high-school teachers have regular opportunities to visit CERN. And high-school students too. Particle physics is our passion!

Particle physicists in Czech Republic are curious and keen on discovering of all beauties and secrets of the microworld - pretty much like their colleagues all over the macroworld. There are teams of tens Czech physicists on ATLAS and ALICE experiments at CERN, studying collisions of protons and heavy ions. Heavy ion collisions are studied on STAR and sPHENIX in BNL and HADES and CBM in FAIR as well. Czech teams also participate in Electron-Ion Collider and linear positron-electron collider preparation. Smaller Czech teams are involved in neutrino physics research on NOvA, Daya Bay, JUNO and KATRIN, on astroparticle experiments Auger and CTA, on Belle II "beauty-factory" experiment in KEK and on several other experiments focused on various topics. Theorists are trying to wrap their head around topics like String Theory and Quantum Qravity, Grand Unified Theories, Chiral Perturbation Theory, phenomenology of heavy ion collisions, Cosmology and others.

Many particle physicists all over the Czech Republic enthusiastically organize various outreach events for general public. Physics is brought to music festivals or physics meets arts events, general public and high-school students build simple experiments at workshops or as part of big projects like CZELTA, high-school students are becoming particle physicists for one day in dedicated workshops and they are visiting Czech labs commonly. Of course, Czech physicists give engaging talks for general public, write various kinds of articles, give interviews for TV, radio and newspapers and they visit high-schools or even teach special physics courses for interested high-school students. Particle physicists are in contact with high-school teachers via various programs. For example, high-school teachers have regular opportunities to visit CERN. And high-school students too. Particle physics is our passion!

Particle physics in Belgium takes place at the universities of Antwerp, Brussels (both Dutch- and French-language universities), Gent, Leuven, Louvain-la-Neuve and Mons, with activities in many experiments. The largest groups are in the CMS-experiment at the LHC and in IceCube, but there is also participation in NA62, JUNO and SoLid. The outreach activities are many and diverse, ranging from Masterclasses to regular lectures for general public. Recently a major effort began to establish Gravitational Waves as a research line in almost every university, with participation in Virgo and the Einstein Telescope Pathfinder projects.