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The CERN community is warmly invited to a dedicated event to honour the Laboratory’s 70th anniversary. This CERN community celebration will take place on Tuesday 17 September 2024 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the lawn next to Restaurant 1 on the CERN Meyrin site, and will include music, videos, food, drink and more.

The event celebrates the entire CERN community and is open to all CERN access pass holders, including family members and retirees. You will need to register to take part and registrations will open early summer. All attendees, including family members, will need to bring a CERN access pass to enter the event.

If you are holding a CERN account, Register on Indico (please log in to see the registration link on the menu bar on the left) at your earliest convenience but no later than 31 August. People with a CERN access card but not a CERN account are invited to register using this link. By registering, you will receive a ticket and QR code to collect the food and drink vouchers at the indicated days, times and locations.

More practical information about site access, parking and shuttle services will be available in early September and communicated to all registered participants.

6th June 2024 19:30 – 21:45

Science Gateway

During the event, you will be taken on a journey through space, time, and the history of ideas in modern physics: what we know and what we do not know. Through the eyes of renowned physicists, you will be exposed to some of the greatest mysteries of the Universe.

Closing performance by the Orchestre des Nations.

Admission: Free of charge, but registration is required for in-person attendance. Register here.

Public event | Free entrance | In English with simultaneous interpreting into French | Recorded and webcasted , also broadcasted on youtube.

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Dear Members

The instructions to help you with your French tax declaration for 2023 have been updated on the GAC-EPA website (in French only). They are available by following this link. These documents are given as advice and do not engage the responsibility of the GAC-EPA.

It is also confirmed that the exchange rate to be used for 2023 income is 1 CHF = 1.05 Euros.

Dear Members

As advertised in the CERN official news, due to the refurbishment of the Pension Fund offices (building 5, 5th floor), please note that, from 22 April to 31 August 2024, the Benefits service will be relocated to room 510/R-013 (next to the main building).

During this period, meetings will be by appointment only.

As a follow-up to the recommendation made in the 2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, CERN has been mandated by its Member States to study the feasibility of a Future Circular Collider or FCC.

The feasibility study, launched in 2021, will continue until 2025.

This event is the first in a series of public meetings to be held as close as possible to the territories, to enrich the dialogue with CERN.

More details by following this link.

Registration is open at this address https://indico.cern.ch/event/1333274/registrations/98752/

Open to all | Free | Event in French with live webcast | Recorded event

Dear Madam/Sir, Dear Members

Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place on:

Tuesday 23 April 2024 at 15:00
in CERN’s main auditorium (building 500/1-001).

The agenda can be seen following this link.

In case attendance at the Meeting is not possible, you can use this proxy vote form (pdf file). It can be established in the name of any member of the GAC-EPA, including members of the Committee.  It must be sent beforehand or given to the Committee at the beginning of the session, according to article 9 of the Rules.

The minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 2023, which will be submitted for your approval during the session, are available on the Web site of our Group:

https://new.gac-epa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AGO2023Minutes-en.pdf

If you wish to ask general questions at this Meeting, we recommend that you submit them beforehand to the President of the Committee, either by postal mail at the GAC-EPA’s address or by email to the secretary of the Group: office.secretariat@gac-epa.org.

The session will end with refreshments.

If you are unable to attend, a webcast of the meeting will be available via https://webcast.web.cern.ch/event/i1381066 .

In the hope that you will be many to attend the meeting on April 23, please accept our sincerest regards,

Enrico Chiaveri
President of GAC-EPA

The next public event will take place on April 18th at 19:30 at the CERN Science Gateway.

This event is suitable for anyone curious about the intersection of science and technology. Whether you are a student, educator, professional or simply curious, you will leave with a deeper appreciation for how fundamental research fuels innovation – and vice versa.

Entrance to the event is free, but registration is mandatory. Click here to register.

There will be also a liveWebcast.

Dear Members,

At the end of September 2024, CERN will celebrate its 70th anniversary. You can find the press release by following this link .

Throughout the year, events (conferences, etc.) are planned to mark this event. A full programme can be found here: https://cern70.cern/events/ . Reservations can be made by clicking on the event you are interested in, in principle 3 weeks in advance.

CERN’s success is largely due to your commitment throughout your years as a member of the staff, and we are sure that you will be happy, if you have the opportunity, to attend some of these conferences. Note also that these will generally be broadcast by webcast.

Dear members

At its December 2023 meeting, the GAC-EPA Committee approved its organization for 2024. The main change concerns our representation on the CHIS Board, where Claude Genier replaces David Jacobs (still accompanied by Morna Robillard). As a result, Claude also replaces David among the 7 delegates to the Staff Council. The full organizational chart for 2024 can be found on our website https://new.gac-epa.org/en/gac-epa-committee/ .

We would like to warmly thank David Jacobs for his twelve years of intense and passionate work on the CHIS Board.

In mid-December, CERN’s Staff Council elected a new Executive Committee for the 2024-2025 term. You can consult the results on the Association’s website: https://staff-association.web.cern.ch/article/results-executive-committee-elections-2024-2025-mandate . On this same page, you will find the programme  of work on the basis of which the new team was elected, and you will see that issues that affect pensioners closely are at the heart of this programme.