Work in European institutions

Call for applications from March 4, 2025 

It has been published call of general oppositions for translators, legal experts, linguists/legal experts, reviewers (AD 7) in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU C) of 4 March 2025:

• EPSO/AD/423/25 – DA – In Danish language
• EPSO/AD/423/25 – DE – In German language
• EPSO/AD/423/25 – EN – In English language
• EPSO/AD/423/25 – ET – In Estonian language
• EPSO/AD/423/25 – HR – In Croatian language
• EPSO/AD/423/25 – NL – In Dutch language
• EPSO/AD/423/25 – RO – In Romanian language
• EPSO/AD/423/25 – SL – In Slovenian language

El Plazo for the submission of applications ends on April 10, 2025.

Planning for 2025

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) has announced its planning for 2025. Minor changes, including additional competitions, may be introduced in the future depending on the needs of the EU institutions and bodies that the office serves.

January 15

Publication of a competitive examination for administrators in the field of taxation (grade AD6). The competition will cover two areas:

1. Direct taxation (including tax law)
2. Indirect taxation (including tax law)

Interested candidates may only apply for one of the areas.

4 March

Publication of a competition for lawyer-linguists (grade AD7) for the European Parliament, the Council of the EU or the European Commission, which will include eight languages: Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Estonian (ET), Croatian (HR), Dutch (NL), Romanian (RO) and Slovenian (SL).

Interested candidates may only apply in one of the languages.

May (date to be confirmed)

Publication of a competition for lawyer-linguists (grade AD7) for the Court of Justice of the EU, which will include eight languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), Estonian (ET), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Italian (IT), Latvian (LV) and Swedish (SV).

Interested candidates may only apply in one of the languages.

June (dates to be confirmed)

Publication of a competitive examination for construction specialists (grade AD7). The competition will cover three areas:

1. Project management in the construction sector
2. Architecture
3. Construction Services Engineering

Interested candidates may only apply for one of the areas.

A vacancy will also be published for assistants in the field of communication (AST3 grade).

July (date to be confirmed)

Publication of a competition for general administrators (grade AD5).

October (date to be confirmed)

Publication of a competitive examination for secretaries (AST/SC1 grade)

Written test

The selection processes of the European Personnel Selection Office that will be published from 2024 will allow candidates to take all their tests in any of the 24 official EU languages.

On the occasion of its move towards a complete linguistic regime of 24 languages, the aforementioned office is going to introduce a new type of test in its selection processes from 2024: the written test, intended to evaluate the written communication skills of the candidates. candidate people. This test will replace the practical case, which will continue to be used in some ongoing competitions.

Types of exercises

This test includes three different types of exercises that the European Personnel Selection Office will use depending on the needs expressed by the recruitment services for each competition:

• A written test (WT) related to the field or fields of the opposition, which evaluates only written communication skills. 
• A specific field-related written test (FRWT), which assesses written communication skills and knowledge in the field of the competition.
• A free essay on EU-related issues (EUFTE), which tests written communication skills only. 

To carry out the exercise, candidates must rely on the documentation provided by the European Personnel Selection Office in relation to the specific area or areas of the competition, as indicated in the competition notice.

Written test anchors

The written test is not a linguistic test. Candidates will be evaluated on the basis of “anchors” (elements that test takers take into account when evaluating a given competency), which are listed below:

• Write concisely, without using unnecessary words or phrases
• Present the issue in an understandable way
• Adapt your wording depending on the recipients and the intended purpose
• Use the information provided to perform the exercise
• Structure written communication so that it reflects a logical chain of ideas

Opportunities to participate in internship programs in EU Institutions during 2025

Check the calendar in the space dedicated to practices

Internships in European institutions. General information and planned calendar for 2025

Podcast “A look at careers in the EU”

The European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) has just published a podcast series entitled “A look at careers in the EU”. The idea behind this six-episode series was to allow EU staff to talk and share how they started working for the Union, what it has been like so far and to bring more personal aspects of their lives to a wider audience. The series illustrates, for example, the diversity of the EU civil service in terms of nationality, gender, age, language, race and job profile.

The first four episodes are now available on the EPSO YouTube channel:

• A peek behind EU Careers: Episode 1
• A peek behind EU Careers: Episode 2
• A peek behind EU Careers: Episode 3
• A peek behind EU Careers: Episode 4

Participants: Marcin Witkowski (Poland, European Parliament), Willy Kokolo (France, European Commission), Jack Kelly (Luxembourg, European Parliament), Martine Diss (France, European Commission), Darinka Bunjevac Burgher (Slovenia, Council of the European Union) and Madalena Almeida Veiga (Portugal, European External Action Service).