Workers’ committees (comités d’entreprise / CE) give access to all employees (including short-term contracts) to many social and cultural advantages such as holiday resorts (with a partnership or summer camp); school or animation trainings; holiday vouchers or other support and benefits such as partial refund of cultural and/or sports subscriptions.

Unistra employees – SPACS

The workers’ committee of Unistra employees - open to CNRS employees - is the SPACS (Service pour la Promotion de l’Action Sociale, Service for Promotion of Social Action).

Activities and ticket sails can be found on this link. For each activity a PDF file can be found at the bottom of the web page, which needs to be filled and specifies all supporting documents needed.

For any question, you can contact the secretary by mail : spacs@unistra.fr or by phone : 03 68 85 20 00, opening hours are available on this link.

CNRS employees – the CAES

CAES stands for Comité d’Action et d’Entraide Sociale (Action and Social Support Committee), it is the workers’ committee of CNRS employees - open to Unistra employees.

To enjoy all the advantages, you need to create an account by clicking on this link and by giving all the supporting documents needed. Once your account is created, you can order holiday vouchers or calculate discounts for the different services.

All the services you have access to are available on the following link: https://www.caes.cnrs.fr/.

The CAES also has a local department in Alsace, which organizes excursions, gives access to sport and culture submissions and tickets sail with discounted prices. All information can be found at https://alsace.caes.cnrs.fr/. To proceed with the inscription, you need to fill the form at the bottom of the website and give all the supporting documents needed.

For any question, you can contact the secretary:
Nathalie Weber : nathalie.weber@caes.cnrs.fr | 03 88 10 63 99
Opening schedule: Tuesday to Thursday from 9 am to 11h30 am or with appointment from 2 pm to 4 pm.

CAES Library

The library and comics-library are open every Monday from 1 to 2 pm in the building 81 (see campus plan) and the ICS library is open every Friday from 1 to 2 pm.
Inscription costs 6 €. Further information is available on the CAES website.