Welcome the ESO Pensioners Web

This website has been created to keep ESO pensioners up to date with news and events that affect them. It is intended to complement the GAC-EPA website hosted at CERN with ESO news from both Germany and Chile.

The website also provides access to important documents relating to healthcare, for example, that have only been accessible in the past on the ESO intranet and therefore inaccessible to most pensioners. Because some of these documents are considered by ESO to be semi-confidential, certain areas of this website are password protected. This makes it easier for us to put documents at your disposal without endless discussion with the ESO administration for each additional document. If you have difficulty in accessing these pages or have forgotten the password, please send a request to the editors.

We would be happy to receive any contributions, articles, photos or links that might be generally interesting to ESO pensioners. If you have any such contributions, please send them to the editors.

Contacts

GAC-EPA representative: Erik Allaert
Health Care - Cigna: Martin Cullum
Web Content: Erik Allaert / Rein Warmels
Web Technical Editor: Rein Warmels

Quick Links

GAC-EPA home page
GAC-EPA Bulletins (6-monthly)

Latest News

25 April 2025 - Update of Retirees Email List

The Retirees Email Addresses listing has been updated with the latest information.

14 March 2025 - Farewell event for Bruno Leibundgut on 30 April 2025

On the occasion of the retirement of the Director for Science, Bruno Leibundgut at the end of April 2025 after more than 32 years of commitment to ESO, ESO Staff and ESO retired staff are invited to a farewell event to celebrate with Bruno his multi-fold contributions to the organisation. The event will take place at the ESO Garching HQ on Wednesday 30 April 2025, his last working day

The event will take place at the Eridanus auditorium, starting with a talk by Bruno (within the series Astronomy for non-astronomers (AfnA) entitled: Exploring Universes.) and ends with refreshments and a toast for Bruno. The Microsoft Teams link for online attendance will be published at a later stage.

10 Februrary 2025 - ESO Pensioners New Year's gathering

Two photos of the New Year's gathering on 10 February in restaurant "Made in Italy" are now available.

22 December 2024 - Viewgraphs for the ESO General Assembly 12 Dec 2024

The viewgraphs of the latest ESO General Assembly on 12 Dec 2024 have been added to the Documentation page.

21 December 2024 - Update of Retirees Email List