First Registration in CMS as a USER

Step 1 : Registration with the Users office

Before you physically come to CERN, the Team Leader of your Institute has to initiate the online registration via the Pre-Registration Tool PREG.

The following two documents are mandatory for the pre-registration and need to be attached to the online registration form:

• The Home Institution Declaration – HID (Valid for a period of 6 months following the date of signature) English
  The HID must be completed and signed by an authorized representative of the person’s home institution.
   
• A copy of the passport
   
• A copy of the visa (if necessary for the stay) should be attached if possible

Upon arrival, please pass by the Users office to finalize your USER registration.

Step 2 : Registration with the CMS Secretariat

Please contact the CMS Secretariat to check if you are well registered in the CMS database.

Step 3: Activation of your computing account

A primary CERN computing account and a CERN e-mail address will be automatically created for you.

To activate your account, please contact directly the Service desk with a copy of your passport by email: service-desk@cern.ch.
After validation, you have 5 days to change your password and to follow the Computing Security course or your account will be disabled.