Competition calendar
Open competitions and selection procedures ongoing or announced by EPSO, with the tests each one includes. As of 10 October 2026; planned dates are indicative and EPSO may change them. Always check the notice of competition.
Graduate administrators (generalists)
- Published
- February 2026
- Application deadline
- 10 March 2026 (closed)
- Testing
- Part 1 (reasoning) October–November 2026; part 2 (EU knowledge, digital skills, written test) first half of 2027
- Tests
- Verbal reasoning 20 q / 35 min
- Numerical reasoning 10 q / 20 min
- Abstract reasoning 10 q / 10 min
- EU knowledge 30 q / 40 min
- Digital skills 40 q / 30 min
- EUFTE written test 40 min
Reasoning tests in language 1; EU knowledge, digital skills and the written test in language 2. The notice was amended in June 2026 to split testing into two parts.
Official source ↗Administrators in the field of audit
- Published
- 14 April 2026
- Application deadline
- 19 May 2026 (closed)
- Testing
- Single online testing day, end of September 2026
- Tests
- Verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning
- Field-related (audit) MCQ 30 q / 40 min, pass mark 15/30
- EUFTE written test 40 min
The field-related test is the ranking test; reasoning is a qualifying threshold.
Official source ↗PlannedAST3
EPSO/AST/158/26Data management experts (data processing and analytics; librarianship and information science; records and archives management)
- Published
- 6 October 2026 (planned)
- Application deadline
- 11 November 2026 (planned)
- Tests
- Reasoning tests
- Field-related test (see the notice when published)
Official source ↗Lawyer-linguists for the Court of Justice of the EU (BG, DE, EL, ES, GA, MT, NL, RO)
- Published
- 21 October 2026 (planned)
- Application deadline
- 25 November 2026 (planned)
- Tests
- Reasoning tests
- Language comprehension and translation tests (see the notice when published)
Official source ↗Lawyer-linguists / legal revisers for the Parliament, Council and Commission (ES, FI, GA, IT, LV, MT, PT, SV)
- Published
- 4 November 2026 (planned)
- Application deadline
- 8 December 2026 (planned)
- Tests
- Reasoning tests
- Language comprehension and translation tests (see the notice when published)
Official source ↗Lawyers (artificial intelligence law, criminal law, procurement law, litigation)
- Published
- 9 December 2026 (planned)
- Application deadline
- 20 January 2027 (planned)
- Tests
- Reasoning tests
- Field-related (law) MCQ
- Written test
Official source ↗OngoingFG I–IV
CAST PermanentContract agents (all function groups)
- Testing
- Testing sessions several times a year (2026 sessions included 17 June and 22 July); you are invited only after an institution pre-selects your profile
- Tests
- Verbal, numerical and abstract reasoning only
Applications can be submitted at any time.
Official source ↗Which of these tests can you practise here? Numerical and abstract reasoning for all of them, and the AST-SC speed tests. See how competitions work.