In her visit to Geneva, Philippine Ambassador to Switzerland Maria Theresa P. Lazaro met with officials of the world's leading nuclear research institute, the CERN, or European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva. CERN invented the World Wide Web (www) that is used today in the internet. CERN also completed recently the world's largest energy particle accelerator, the 27-kilometer diameter LHC or Large Hadron Collider, intended to crash particle beams to test various theories of high-energy physics. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries.

During their meeting, Ambassador Lazaro requested CERN officials to help Filipino scientists and engineers advance their knowledge. The CERN officials expressed their willingness to further develop both countries' scientific and technical cooperation through organized research projects. Physicists, engineers and specialized technicians of universities and scientific institutions may participate in research projects at CERN in the field of experimental and theoretical physics, accelerator and detector engineering and other related fields of science and technology such as electronics, computing and medical physics.