Indicative planning for 2025
EPSO is surprisingly active for this time of year, not only have they recently released the Written Test document for the Crisis and Migration exam, but they announced indicative dates for new competitions in 2025.
The announcement includes news about the AD5 Generalist competition, the most highly anticipated competition of 2025.
Here are the key dates and details:
Administrators in the Field of Taxation (Grade AD6)
We already know about this one, and if you haven't yet - sign up here for the free info webcast after applications open.
- Applications open: 15 January 2025
- Fields:
- Direct taxation (including tax law)
- Indirect taxation (including tax law)
- Note: Candidates can apply to only one field.
Lawyer-Linguists (Grade AD7)
European Parliament, Council of the EU, European Commission
- Publication Date: 4 March 2025
- Languages:
- Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Estonian (ET), Croatian (HR), Dutch (NL), Romanian (RO), Slovenian (SL)
Court of Justice of the EU
- Publication Date: May 2025 (exact date TBC)
- Languages:
- Czech (CS), Danish (DA), Estonian (ET), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Italian (IT), Latvian (LV), Swedish (SV)
For both competitions above, candidates may only apply to one language profile.
Building Specialists (Grade AD7)
- Publication Date: June 2025 (exact date TBC)
- Three fields, you can only apply to one:
- Project management in the building sector
- Architecture
- Building services engineering
AST3 Communication
- Publication Date: June 2025 (exact date TBC)
- Most likely these will be the three remaining profiles from the original 2020 AST3 competition (the finance profiles just had their exams).
Generalist Administrators (Grade AD5)
- Publication Date: July 2025 (exact date TBC)
- This is the big one everyone's been waiting for since 2019!
Secretaries (Grade AST/SC1)
- Publication Date: October 2025 (exact date TBC)
All ongoing EPSO competitions +
These are all the current competitions, including one still open for applications.
- Crisis and Migration | Exam date 8 January 2025
- You can practise writing your response to a sample assignment using the real EPSO document: book a slot for the Exam-Specific Written Test Simulation + Evaluation service here.
- Economists (AD6) | Exam date 30 January 2025
- Scientific research administrators (AD7)
- No test date yet
- Approximately 7500 candidates submitted applications across the ten available profiles.
- The recording of the free webcast is available here.
- Translators (AD5)
- Applications are due on 14 January 2025
- Watch the recording of the free webcast here.
- COM internal competitions
- Applications just closed on 20 December
- 4 grades: AST2, SC2, AD5 and AD6
- The free webcast recording is available here.
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