Three specialist fields. One application. A chance to put your experience to work in the EU institutions.
Before European statistics can inform a decision, someone has to check whether the underlying data can be trusted. Before a colleague can retrieve a document from years ago, someone has to catalogue it and decide how to preserve it. The AST3 Data Management competition is aimed at people who already do that kind of work.
WHICH FIELD FITS YOUR EXPERIENCE?
Data processing, analytics and statistics. A team receives files from several sources and needs comparable figures. You might standardise categories, investigate missing values and explain the limitations of a report.
Librarianship and information science. Researchers need to find material across collections. You might catalogue resources, improve metadata and guide users to reliable sources.
Records and archives management. An institution needs to find and preserve the records behind a decision. You might classify files, apply retention schedules or coordinate transfers to an archive.
WHY MAKE THE MOVE?
You can bring a specialist skill into multilingual public service. Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg are possible duty stations. The competition creates reserve lists for recruitment as permanent AST3 officials. Institutions then recruit separately for suitable vacancies.
BEFORE APPLYING
Choose one field. Compare the duties you can document with Annex II, then check the education and experience route in section 3.3. One route combines a secondary qualification giving access to post-secondary education with six years of relevant experience. Selection includes reasoning, a field-related test and a written exercise on EU matters.
KEY DATES
9 December 2026, 12:00 Brussels time — application and valid ID or passport.
11 March 2027, 12:00 Brussels time — remaining supporting documents.
Official EPSO guide: https://selection.eu-careers.europa.eu/en/apply-data-management-competition-ast3