GAC – EPA
Le site des retraités du CERN et de l’ESO
The CERN and ESO pensioners site
Dear Members,
We would like to draw your attention to the closure of the main door (Gate B) of the Meyrin site, from 31 August 2026, for a period of 6 months! You will find all the details of this renovation operation and the list of possible accesses on the website:
https://sce-dep.web.cern.ch/projects/redevelopment-of-entrance-b
Retirees can therefore only access the Meyrin site by
The “CERN Heritage Collection Team” has contacted the GAC-EPA Committee to ask us to invite our retired CERN members to help identify unknown objects in CERN’s heritage collections.
CERN’s heritage collections include more than 350 objects that tell the story of CERN’s scientific and technical achievements. Many of these objects are on display at the Science Portal and are on loan to museums around the world.
For some of them, key information is missing: what they were used for, who used them, when, and why. In other cases, the location of an object is unknown.
This is where the CERN community can help. Objects whose context is not documented lose their meaning over time and eventually get classified as “unknown,” but for each one, there may be someone today who knows exactly what it is. You can view the list of missing and unknown objects here, and explore the entire collection of exhibited objects here. The file on CERNbox contains some of the posters that have been exhibited at CERN, as well as a PowerPoint presentation featuring many other objects that have yet to be identified.
Please contact heritage.collections@cern.ch if you can:
Preserving CERN’s heritage relies on the memories and knowledge of the people who built, operated, and used this equipment.
Help the CERN Heritage Collections Team pass this history on to future generations.
P.S.: You can post comments on the GAC-EPA Forum: https://gac-epa.org/community/cern-heritage-collection-collection-du-patrimoine-du-cern/
Dear GAC-EPA members,
The CERN service responsible for communication and consultation for the FCC project is organising an information meeting in collaboration with the GAC-EPA on Thursday 3 September from 4.30 pm to 7.30 pm in Building 80/1-001 – Globe of Science and Innovation – 1st floor (CERN).
The meeting will begin with presentations in French, followed by a ‘Q&A’ session, and will conclude with drinks and light refreshments.
We invite all GAC-EPA members and all retirees to register and attend this meeting. You may bring one guest of your choice – please see the official link for registration: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1710143/.
You can find further information on the Members’ Forum: https://gac-epa.org/community/projet-fcc/.
PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THE FORUM TO FOLLOW THE DISCUSSIONS.
If you are having any problems logging in to the Forum, please do not hesitate to contact us at: office.secretariat@gac-epa.org.
Finally, the GAC-EPA, as an association representing the beneficiaries of the Pension Fund, proposes to draw up a stakeholder document or, at the very least, to assist in the drafting of a stakeholder document prepared by a working group (to be defined). If you are interested, please get in touch via the Forum or by emailing at office.secretariat@gac-epa.org – see https://gac-epa.org/community/projet-fcc/fcc-cahier-dacteur-contribution-en-ligne-2/# post-1853 and/or https://www.debatpublic.fr/projet-accelerateur-particules/les-cahiers-dacteurs-9067.
We hope to see many of you on 3 September.
The future of CERN concerns and interests us too!
Kind regards,
Catherine Laverrière, Chair of the GAC-EPA
The annual meeting of the Pension Fund took place on June 30, 2026 in the Council room at CERN.
The slides and the recording are available by following this link.
Dear Members
We would like to inform you that this spring’s Bulletin (Bulletin # 70) is available on the GAC-EPA website by following this link. It contains a lot of information about the Committee’s recent actions, and we are sure you will enjoy reading it.
To mark this 35th anniversary of the publication of the Bulletin, we have given access on the same page to all the Bulletins, from the first issue in the summer of 1990 to the present day. Happy reading to those who like to go back in time and relive the history of our Group and our Organizations!
https://www.geneve.ch/cite-seniors#
This year, I have chosen to place my Year of Mayor under the sign of “Shared Time”. In a society that goes faster and faster, seniors know better than anyone how precious the moments given to loved ones, memories, listening and transmission are. The relationship to time is not only an individual matter, it is political. It shapes the different facets of our lives, our solidarity and our ability to care for one another. Together, let us give value to these shared moments, to the quality of relationships and to our ability to act.
Christina Kitsos
Maire de la Ville de Genève
Full program 1st semester 2026
The Director-General hold a meeting and Q&A session on Thursday, 23 April, at 10 a.m., at the Science Gateway (Sergio Marchionne Auditorium).
The meeting was recorded and the recording can be listened to on the page https://indico.cern.ch/event/1661742/ . This should be accessible to all retirees holding a CERN Verified Guest Account (e.g. gmail.com, outlook.com, hotmail.com, laposte.fr, etc.) given before their departure.
If you do not hold a CERN Verified Guest Account, the procedure for obtaining one can be found in the document (in French) /wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Verified-Guest-Account.pdf
Dear Members
The Annual General Meeting of our Association took place on Tuesday 21 April 2026 at 2:30 pm in CERN’s main auditorium (building 500/1-001). Thanks to all those who were present or followed the meeting via the Webcast. The presentations and recordings are available at https://indico.cern.ch/event/1618360/
Yours sincerely,
Catherine Laverrière, President of GAC-EPA
Dear members
CERN has just published the Swiss Franc exchange rate to be used for the 2025 income tax declaration in France:
https://home.cern/news/official-news/cern/exchange-rate-tax-declaration-form-2025-income
1 CHF =1.07 Euros
This year, the two methods that we described last year:
give the same result after rounding.
To our knowledge, the instructions for filling the tax forms that were published on our site in April 2025 are still valid. Since these instructions were given in French we prefer to direct you to the French versions:
We remain available to GAC-EPA members who would like assistance or clarification.
The Staff Association is pleased to invite you to the conference on:
Steer Your Own Path: Resilience and Mindset Lessons from a 46,000 km Bicycle Journey Around the World – Adorjan Illes
Discover Adorjan Illes’s raw and honest summary of his four-year expedition!
Tuesday, 28 April 2026 – 5:30 p.m.
500/1-001 – Main Auditorium
Conference in English
For more information: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1661715/