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
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Latest News
17 January 2026 - Update of Retirees Email List
The Retirees Email Addresses listing has been updated with the latest information.
Happy and Healthy 2026
31 December 2025 - Update of Retirees Email List
The Retirees Email Addresses listing has been updated with the latest information.
26 November 2025 - Update of Retirees Email List
The Retirees Email Addresses listing has been updated with the latest information.
25 November 2025 - CERN Pension Fund Meeting
The viewgraphs of the CERN Pension Fund Annual Information Meeting (see previous News item d.d. 6 November 2025) are now available on the Documents and Presentations page, which also includes a link to the meeting recordings (restricted access).
6 November 2025 – Annual Meeting CERN Pensions Fund (update)
The Annual Information Meeting (AIM) presented by the CEO of the CERN pension fund will be held in the Telescopium (i.e. "old") auditorium on Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 15:00. Additional information is now available on the Documents and Presentations page (restricted access).
28 October 2025 – Year-End Event in Germany and Garching Children's Christmas Party (update)
For your information, the Garching Year End party 2025 will take place on Saturday 6 December from 19:00 at the Brotspielerei in Puchheim. The invitations with the details about progamme, location and travel arrangements has been sent out this week by ESO Human Resources.
Further, the ESO Garching International Staff Association Children's Christmas Party will take place on Friday, 12 December 2025! Everyone is invited: ISMs, PAs, UPAs, Fellows, Students, retirees, contractors, and family members. Details have already been sent in a recent email from Nathalie Kastelyn.
07 October 2025 - Update of Retirees Email List
The Retirees Email Addresses listing has been updated with the latest information.
5 October 2025 – Shift of CERN Pension Payment
On the matter of a shift of the CERN pension payment date (as announced in a letter from the CERN pension fund sent in June), the formal final decision is still pending. In fact, there seems to be pressure from "higher up" not to give up this idea "too easily" (i.e. after the objection expressed by the GAC-EPA committee). For that reason, the GAC-EPA committee will soon send a message to all GAC-EPA members (i.e. the majority of you), asking for their opinion. As this is a matter for all CERN pension fund beneficiaries, I will likely distribute this message as well to the non GAC-EPA members from ESO, to get also the reaction of these pensioners (and demonstrating at the same time how GAC-EPA is involved in defending the interests of the CERN pension fund beneficiaries - see also below). We count on your prompt reaction.
5 October 2025 – Annual Meeting CERN Pensions Fund
The Annual Information Meeting (AIM) presented by the CEO of the CERN pension fund will be held in the Telescopium (i.e. "old") auditorium on Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 15:00. Additional information - including the corresponding Microsoft Teams link to follow this presentation remotely - will surely be communicated by HR in due time.
For the ones not able to attend on that date/time, the AIM will also be presented at CERN on Tuesday 14 October. The details of that meeting (incl. the Zoom link) can be found via the GAC-EPA website.
5 October 2025 – Search for ESO candittions for the GAC-EPA Committee
We are looking for one of more GAC-EPA members to stand as a candidate to occupy the ESO seat in the GAC-EPA committee for the next 2 years. Any ESO GAC-EPA member can put her-/himself forward as a candidate, either directly at the GAC-EPA or via the ESO GAC-EPA representative (Erik Allaert).
Clearly it is in the interest of all of us to fill this vacancy, and the new representative can count on support from the current ESO GAC-EPA representative plus others closely involved with GAC-EPA.
Please note that the application deadline is set to 20 October 2025.
