CERN and the Future of Particle Physics

CERN is an international organisation in Geneva and the largest particle physics laboratory worldwide. Thousands of researchers from all over the world come together to address the fundamental question of the basic constituents of matter and its interactions. This research requires cutting-edge technologies and CERN is the place where these technologies are developed in the areas of particle accelerators and detectors as well as computing. Future plans of the laboratory include the luminosity upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the Future Circular Collider (FCC), 91 km circumference accelerator which in a first stage will operate as electron-positron collider. The lecture will give a brief summary of the current status of particle physics together with the most fundamental open questions, and provide an outlook on how these questions can be addressed.