Category: At CERN
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Education fees – Period of admissibility – 2024/2025 school year
Members of the personnel are reminded that, pursuant to Article R V 1.37 of the Staff Regulations, they have until 31 August 2026 to submit claims for the reimbursement of education fees relating to the 2024/2025 school year. These claims should be made using an EDH form: https://edh.cern.ch/Document/Claims/EducationFees Detailed information concerning education fees is available
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CERN Pension Fund – Annual Information Meeting 2026
Open to all members and beneficiaries, this annual event is an opportunity to hear the latest financial updates from the CERN Pension Fund and ask your questions directly to the Chair of the Pension Fund Governing Board (PFGB) and to the Fund’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO). When and where? The meeting will take place on Tuesday
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Gian Vittorio Frigo (1939 – 2026)
Gian Vittorio Frigo (1939 – 2026) — CERN has lost one of its most singular minds. Gian Vittorio Frigo – a pioneer of IT engineering, a practising guitarist, a meticulous cook and an endlessly generous host – has left us, and the world is a quieter and less colourful place for it. To those who
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Modernising the tools behind CERN’s daily work
Two large transformation initiatives, the HCM project and the ERP project, have been launched to modernise the administrative systems that support CERN’s day-to-day work, making them more efficient, more integrated and easier to use. These projects will affect up to 35 000 people and are expected to be completed between the end of 2028 (HCM) and
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Administrative Circular No. 23 (Rev. 6) – Special working hours
A revised version of Administrative Circular No. 23 (Rev. 6), entitled “Special working hours”, has been approved by the Director-General and is available at the following link. This version cancels and replaces the previous version of the circular (Rev. 5), dated October 2022. The amendment updates and aligns the circular with the change to Staff
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Staff Rules and Regulations – 11th edition
In accordance with recommendations made by the Finance Committee and decisions taken by the Council in December 2025 (CERN/FC/6962-CERN/3953), please find below the pages of the Staff Rules and Regulations which have been updated further to the modifications which came into force on 1 January 2026: The complete updated electronic version of the Staff Rules
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Porte de France multimodal hub: preparatory works from June 2026
A redevelopment project for the Porte de France junction in Saint-Genis-Pouilly, led by the local French authorities, is entering its preparatory phase. During this phase, utility companies will need to adapt and relocate existing water, electricity, gas, telecommunications and sanitation infrastructure ahead of the start of the junction works, scheduled for summer 2027. These preparatory
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LS3 Safety Spotlight: be road safe
As CERN prepares for LS3, road safety – one of the nine newly approved CERN Safety Fundamentals – is more critical than ever. Increased traffic, movement of equipment and a higher density of people and vehicles across the site raise the risk of accidents. In 2024 and 2025, there were 210 reported road safety incidents
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Upcoming events
1–5 Jun | Physics | Council Chamber & Online | LPCC Workshops | ENExtended Scalar Sectors From All Angles 2026 2 Jun 15:30| Knowledge Sharing | BE Auditorium Meyrin & Online | KT Seminars | ENPrecision Instrumentation and the Integration of CERN’s Single Frequency Raman Laser 3 Jun 14:00| Experiments | TH Conference Room &
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Students from Bangladesh, India, Türkiye, the UK and the USA win the 13th edition of Beamline for Schools
The winners of the 13th edition of the Beamline for Schools (BL4S) competition have been selected. BL4S is a physics competition that was initiated by CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, and is open to secondary school pupils from all around the world. Participants are invited to submit a proposal for a physics experiment to be undertaken