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Let’s celebrate the arrival of Spring on Friday, 20 March 2026, at R1 – 501

Let’s celebrate the arrival of Spring at afestive and friendly dance party, open to CERN personnel and their families, on Friday, 20 March 2026, at Restaurant 1 – Building 501

Immerse yourself in a Spring Vibes – Flower Power atmosphère: colorful, positive and full of energy, combining live music, DJ sets and shared moments.

Programme :
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: live music (CERN MusicClub)
8:00 pm – midnight DJ set, live singer and saxophonist, with dance floor.

A photobooth will be available to capture the moment.

Food and drinks will be available throughout the evening!

The event will be fully cashless (no cash payments).

The goal of this event is to bring something new, encourage social interaction, and offer a relaxed and convivial moment to the CERN community.

Registration is requested and strongly recommended in order to estimate attendance : https://indico.cern.ch/e/springvibesparty

Dress code optional – Flower Power vibes welcome!


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News Staff Association

Staff Association Public Meeting on Monday 2 February – Presentation available on Indico

Dear Colleagues,

On Monday, 2 February 2026, the Staff Association held a public meeting.

If you would like to stay up to date with the latest news, you can watch the meeting or view the presentation on Indico: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1634913/

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February Cité Seniors

Programm: https://www.geneve.ch/cite-seniors#

The new programme of activities from the Social Services for Seniors, covering the period from February to June 2026, has just been released. It includes numerous courses, workshops and activities. Cité Seniors and the neighbourhood centres offer a wide range of activities that allow you to learn or train, entertain yourself, meet people, take care of your health and improve your digital skills.
Registration is open on 19 and 20 February, from 9am to 5pm, at Cité Seniors. We look forward to seeing many of you there!

Christina Kitsos
Vice-Chair of the Administrative Council of the City of Geneva

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Conference Loans in CHF Thursday 15 January 26 – 12:30 pm – 503/1-001

The Staff Association is pleased to invite you to the conference:

Loans in CHF: exchange-rate risk and the requirement of contractual transparency – Understanding the litigation and Its implications – Maître Dana

Thursday, 15 January 2026 – 12:30 p.m. 503/1-001 – Council Room & Zoom

Conference in French, with simultaneous translation into English.

The conference will be recorded.

For more information and registration:

https://indico.cern.ch/event/1619322

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Information Sessions News

Information Sessions dates 2026

Place: Building 61 – Staff Association room

From 1:30 to 4:00 pm

  • Tuesday 3 February
  • Tuesday 3 March
  • Tuesday 31 March
  • Tuesday 28 April
  • Tuesday 2 June
  • Tuesday 1 September
  • Tuesday 29 September
  • Tuesday 3 November
  • Tuesday 1 December
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Fund News

The monthly pension payment date will not change!

Thank you for your numerous responses to our message alerting you to the possible change in the pension payment date from the 7th to the 25th of the month.

97% of you supported the GAC-EPA’s position and expressed a negative opinion for various reasons.

The analysis of your feedback was communicated to the Pension Fund, which ultimately decided not to make any changes.

This good news was confirmed by the Fund in a letter that you should have received with the pension payment dates for 2026.

We would like to thank the Fund and the Benefits Service for this decision.

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Work management practices and Employee health: A conflictual relationship – 16 December

The Staff Association is pleased to invite you to the conference on:

Work management practices and Employee health: A conflictual relationship – Prof. Gregor Bouville

How and why do certain methods of work management affect employees’ health?

Tuesday 16 December – 5:30 p.m. 503/1-001 – Council Room

Conference in French

For more information and registration: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1606354

 

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GAC-EPA End-of-year drink – Thursday 4 December from 4 to 6 pm

Dear Members,

I am pleased to invite you to the traditional GAC-EPA end-of-year drink that will take place

Thursday, December 4, 2025 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
on the mezzanine adjacent to CERN’s main auditorium (building 500/1-001).

In the hope that you will be many to attend, please accept our sincerest regards,

Catherine Laverrière, President

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News Staff Association

Conflict and humanitarian situation in the Middle East

Dear GAC-EPA Members,

The ‘Groupement des Anciens du CERN et de l’ESO’ cannot remain insensitive to the conflict and humanitarian situation in the Middle East.

Like many around the world, the GAC-EPA is observing with growing concern the humanitarian consequences of this conflict, with millions of civilians, the majority of whom are children, deprived of water, healthcare and food and exposed to extreme violence.

Unable to remain silent in the light of these conditions, the Staff Association sent a letter to the Director-General and the President of the Council, which was published in Echo 459 on 2 October 2025 (https://staff-association.web.cern.ch/sites/default/files/Echo/2025/459.pdf).

Our Group naturally supports and endorses the Association’s approach and emphasises in particular CERN’s primary objective, which is science in the service of peace and humanity.

For its part, the GAC-EPA recalls that, in its resolution CERN/3626 of 8 March 2022, the CERN Council stated that ‘the aggression of one country by another is contrary to the values that the Organisation defends’. We believe it is legitimate to apply this same requirement for consistency to any situation involving flagrant violations of international humanitarian law.

Yours sincerely,

Catherine Laverrière, Chair of the GAC-EPA

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New CERN Community Support Center in the Main Building

Dear Colleagues,

As announced in the last Bulletin, a new CERN Community Support Centre (CCSC) branch will open in the Main Building on Wednesday 1 October.

Set in the former Travel agency’s premises next to UBS desk, this new, modern and functional facility will offer the following services to any member of the CERN community holding an access card:

  • First-line support for all CERN services
  • Access card renewal
  • Visitor access card management
  • Vehicle registration         
  • Contractor and Temporary personnel information maintenance   
  • Network and connectivity (e.g Wi-Fi, etc.)
  • Computing accounts management and 2-factor authentication
  • YubiKey Management (Requests & Settings)
  • Telecom Services: SIM/eSIM, mobiles, IP phones, etc.      
  • Eduroam: registration, certificate renewal            
  • Hardware drop-off, setup, repair request              
  • Software licences (e.g Office, PDF, etc.)  
  • Material: borrow or purchase material (e.g chargers, cables, etc.)
  • General questions about IT services or software

The Service Desk, the IT-SOS and Telecom services and the Uniqa desk have already moved into these new premises.