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.

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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)


Save the Date

  • 18 November 2026: CERN Pension Fund Annual Information Meeting at ESO Headquarters at 15.00 CET. 
  • 5 December 2026: Year-End party in Santiago at Hotel InterContinental.  
  • 12 December 2026: Year-End party in Puchheim at Brot Spielerei.  

Further details about these events can be found on the Documents and Presentations page (password required).

Latest News

16 September 2026 - Update of Retirees Email List

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

16 August 2026 - Update of Retirees Email List

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

17 June 2026 - Update of Retirees Email List

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

25 May 2026 - Update of Retirees Email List

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

06 May 2026 - Update of Retirees Email List

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

16 March 2026 - Announcement of the next GA of the ISA on 24th March 2026

The next General Assembly of the International Staff Association will take place on the 24th March at 10 am Chile and 14 pm Germany. The General Assembly will be a hybrid meeting, with the possibility to attend in person in Garching (Eridanus) or Vitacura (Urania), or virtually via MS Teams.
More details can be found on the Documents and Presentations page (restricted access).

11 March 2026 - Update of Retirees Email List

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

16 February 2026 - Update of Retirees Email List

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

10 Februrary 2026 - 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. 

17 January 2026 - Update of Retirees Email List

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