2731 20160701171710.0 10.1051/eas/1567012 DOI ASTROimport-888 Eyer, L. 2014 The Variability Processing and Analysis of the Gaia mission We present the variability processing and analysis that is foreseen for the Gaia mission within Coordination Unit 7 (CU7) of the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC). A top level description of the tasks is given. Evans, D. W. Mowlavi, N. Lanzafame, A. Cuypers, J. De Ridder, J. Sarro, L. Clementini, G. Guy, L. Holl, B. Ordonez, D. Nienartowicz, K. Lecoeur-Taibi, I. EAS Publications Series 67 2014 75-78 http://esoads.eso.org/abs/2014EAS....67...75E published in NONREF