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/
Category: News
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Staff Association Public Meeting – Monday 2 February at 2:00 pm
Dear Colleagues,
The Staff Association is organizing a Public Meeting.
Monday, 2 February at 2:00 p.m. – 503/1-001 – CERN Council Chamber
Join us for the latest updates.
Your presence is highly encouraged, especially if you have questions for the Staff Association.
Should you be unable to attend in person, join us via Webcast.
For additional details, we invite you to visit the following link: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1634879/
Thanks for your attention and please share this information with your colleagues!
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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 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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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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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.
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October activities for Seniors – Senior Citizen’s Guide – Geneva
Find out more about activities for seniors link