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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The Staff Association is pleased to invite you to the conference on:
Children and overexposure to screens – Dr. Marie-Noëlle Clément
What impact do digital technologies have on the development of our children and on our own development?
Tuesday, 3 February – 5:30 p.m.
503/1-001 – Council Room
Conference in French
For more information: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1621915
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
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
The Staff Association is pleased to invite you to the conference:
Taxation Regimes For International Officials in France and Switzerland
This presentation, led by Maître Brocard, will cover topics such as the implications of the end of the legitimation card, issues related to multiple pensions, and the tax treatment of inheritances.
Friday, 14 November – 12:30 to 14:30 – 503/1-001 – Council Chamber & Zoom
For more information and to register: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1601851/
Conference in French, with simultaneous English translation.
The Staff Association is pleased to invite you to the seminar on:
the Five-Yearly Review at CERN
What are its objectives, how is it conducted at CERN, and what can reasonably be expected from this exercise?
Monday 3 November – 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
503/1-001 – Council Chamber
Conference in French, simultaneous English translation
Open to all
For more information and registration: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1594781
Zoom : https://cern.zoom.us/j/66762960129?pwd=JWDho1XXS3GoBG6FndeJC8ZNMMbmJG.1
The Staff Association is pleased to invite you to the conference:
Working in science in the age of AI, by Dr Marcel Salathe
Artificial intelligence is transforming not only our research tools, but also the very nature of scientific work. This presentation explores these profound changes and the new dynamics between researchers and emerging technologies.
Reminder
Tuesday, October 7 at 5:30 p.m.
Council chamber, Meyrin
Conference in English
Free, open to all
For more information and registration: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1579986/
The Staff Association is pleased to invite you !
Classical music concert, with the Chamber ensemble of the ODN
Let yourself be carried away by the elegance of Romanticism and the vibrant colors of 20th-century French music
Thursday 6 November – 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM
500/1-001 – Main Auditorium
Open to all, free
Mandatory individual registration: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1572314/
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
The recording of the Staff Association seminar of June 24th on the Pension Fund can be found at https://cds.cern.ch/record/2936600
The slides are also available following this link.