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ONLINE TRAINING - INTERNAL COMPETITION - WRITTEN TEST - EN

28/02/2025 , , , , , ,

 



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INTERNAL COMPETITION - WRITTEN TEST - EN


 Deadline for registration: Monday, 3 March 2025 at 17:00  

Please note that your registration will be confirmed only
 if you register via the link above

LOGIN LINK WILL BE PROVIDED ONCE YOUR REGISTRATION IS CONFIRMED
ON TRAINING DAY BEFORE NOON
 
If you have any questions, you can contact us at : JRC-RD-ISPRA@EC.EUROPA.EU

Renouveau&Démocratie Ispra

ONLINE TRAINING SESSIONS FOR INTERNAL COMPETITIONS | MCQ FORMAT ON KNOWLEDGE OF EU POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS

05/02/2025 , , , , ,

 

ONLINE TRAINING SESSIONS FOR INTERNAL COMPETITIONS 

MCQ FORMAT ON KNOWLEDGE OF EU POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS 

True to its commitments, R&D will make a special effort to offer you the best possible training to maximise your chances of succeeding in these competitive exams. And without asking you to pay outrageous prices, because we never treat our colleagues as clients.

These internal competitions will be very challenging for you. It is therefore time to start your preparation right away!
In particular, we are convinced that no external consultant will be able to grasp the challenges of CBT on European knowledge better than very experienced and/or former colleagues.

True to its credo, R&D has never asked participants for a single extra euro for its training courses, because for us, colleagues are not customers and solidarity is not an empty word!

Thinking of you, our trainer Maria Glowacz - de Chevilly and colleague Blandine Pellistrandi are launching new sessions on EU Knowledge including a new set of 100 MCQ in an interactive exercise format of 4 separate sessions in EN and FR (each session will consist of 50 questions).

These sessions will allow you to assess your knowledge of the European construction, the main policies and the decision-making procedures.

It will also be an opportunity to discuss the usual tips and tricks and the methodology to use in order to prepare in the most efficient way.

The first module is designed to prepare you for the computer-based multiple-choice pre-selection test (CBT) on your knowledge of EU policies and institutions. The course consists of two-hour sessions in English and two-hour sessions in French. The course includes a theoretical part which will enable participants to acquire study methodology and the correct bibliography. The theoretical part is followed by an interactive session in which we present 100 new questions with answers and explanations of the context.

The second module is to prepare for the written test.
According to the AST-SC2_Notice_of_Competition . EN, this test requires candidates to draft a summary, a letter or a minute. The written test is designed to assess your general ability to perform secretarial and administrative support functions within the Commission. The aim of the session will be to present the structure of all types of writing (letter, memo, summary) in accordance with the Commission's guidelines, applying the principles of clear writing. The module will include both theory and practice.


If you want to check where you are in your preparation, please:

SAVE THE DATES
MCQ format on knowledge of EU policies and institutions

Training sessions in ENGLISH & FRENCH
Date                   Time                    Training                                  Trainer | Colleague
11/02/2025    16:30 - 18:30    MCQ session 1 - EN                       Maria & Blandine
12/02/2025    16:30 - 18:30    MCQ session 2 - EN                       Maria & Blandine
13/02/2025    16:30 - 18:30    QCM session 1 - FR                        Maria & Blandine
17/02/2025    16:30 - 18:30    QCM session 2 - FR                        Maria & Blandine
18/02/2025    16:30 - 18:30    Préparation à l’épreuve écrite - FR  Maria & Blandine

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Our training sessions are FREE for all R&D members and those who wish to join our union!
If you are not already a member, you can join by filling in this online form :

Join our trade union, become a member


To participate in the sessions, it is mandatory to complete the Google Form below:

  MCQ FORMAT ON KNOWLEDGE OF EU POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS

 Deadline for registration: Monday, 10 February 2025 at 17:00  

Please note that your registration will be confirmed only if you register via the link above


LOGIN LINK WILL BE PROVIDED ONCE YOUR REGISTRATION IS CONFIRMED
ON EACH TRAINING DAY BEFORE NOON
If you have any questions, you can contact us at : JRC-RD-ISPRA@EC.EUROPA.EU

ONLINE TRAINING - WRITTEN TEST FOR EPSO OPEN COMPETITIONS - 17 & 22 OCTOBER 2024

15/10/2024 , , , , ,

 

ONLINE TRAINING 
 

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Our trainings are FREE for all R&D members and those who wish to join our trade union! 

If you are not already a member, you can join by filling out this online form:

R&D ISPRA BECOME A MEMBER

To participate in the sessions, it is mandatory to complete the Google Form below: 

  EPSO COMPETITIONS - COURSE ON WRITTEN TESTS - OCTOBER 2024


 Deadline for registration: 16/10/2024 at 5.30 pm 

Please note that your registration will be confirmed only

 if you register via the link above


LOGIN LINK WILL BE PROVIDED ONCE YOUR REGISTRATION IS CONFIRMED

ON EACH TRAINING DAY BEFORE NOON




ONLINE TRAINING FOR EPSO OPEN COMPETITIONS/CAST| PRE-SELECTION TESTS - CBT - 3, 8, 10 & 15 October 2024 - at 16:30

23/09/2024 , , , ,

 

 

TRAINING EPSO OPEN COMPETITIONS 

PRE-SELECTION TEST

 


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Our trainings are FREE for all R&D members and those who wish to join our trade union! 
 
If you are not already a member, you can join by filling out this online form: R&D ISPRA BECOME A MEMBER

To participate in the sessions, it is mandatory to complete the Google Form below:

CBT TESTS - EPSO OPEN COMPETITIONS


 Deadline for registration: 02/10/2024 at 17:00


Please note that your registration will be confirmed only
 if you register via the link above
 
LOGIN LINK WILL BE PROVIDED ONCE YOUR REGISTRATION IS CONFIRMED
ON EACH TRAINING DAY BEFORE NOON 
 

 

ONLINE TRAINING FOR THE EPSO OPEN COMPETITION | PRE-SELECTION TESTS - CBT at 4.30 PM

10/04/2024 , , ,


TRAINING EPSO OPEN COMPETITIONS 

PRE-SELECTION TESTS

 

 

 REGISTER:
Our training are FREE for all R&D members and those who wish to join our trade union!
If you are not already a member, you can join by filling out this online form:
R&D ISPRA BECOME A MEMBER

To participate in the sessions, it is mandatory to complete the Google Form below:

CBT TESTS - EPSO OPEN COMPETITIONS


 Deadline for registration: 22/04/2024 at 08.00 am

Please note that your registration will be confirmed only if you register via the link above

TRAINING INTERNAL COMPETITIONS AST4, AD8, AD10, AD12 - TALENT SCREENER

05/12/2023 , ,

 


 TRAINING INTERNAL COMPETITIONS

 AST4, AD8, AD10, AD12 

TALENT SCREENER


R&D organises an online training session on TALENT SCREENER in order to optimise the preparation of your application to the above mentioned internal competitions. 

FOR ITS MEMBERS 

COVERING THE TESTS FOR ALL PUBLISHED INTERNAL COMPETITIONS 

(See competition notice)

AST4 internal competition

AD8 internal competition

AD10 internal competition

AD12 internal competition

 

SAVE THE DATE!

Tuesday, 12 December 2023

4:30 - 6:30 P.M. 

(The training session will be held in EN)

REGISTER

To participate in the session, it is mandatory to complete this form : 

Training – Internal Competitions – TALENT SCREENER

 Deadline for registration: 11/12/2023 at 5.30 pm

Please note that your registration will be confirmed only

 if you register via the link above

 LOGIN LINK WILL BE PROVIDED ON TRAINING DAY BEFORE NOON 

If you have any questions, you can contact us at : JRC-RD-ISPRA@ec.europa.eu

All we are saying… is give AST-SCs a chance!

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All we are saying… is give AST-SCs a chance! 




There is no doubt that AST-SC colleagues are constantly being let down by our institution's staff policy and this is no longer acceptable! 

Enough is enough! AST-SC colleagues have always been treated as “Children of a lesser God”, by our administration, whether in terms of promotions or opportunities for career advancement through internal competitions. 
 
R&D has always been a vocal opponent of this scandalous practice ( R&D  alongside AST/SC colleagues! – Renouveau & Démocratie (renouveau-democratie.eu), by putting all its skills and efforts at the service of AST SC colleagues and with the help of leading experts in all fields. 

 As the FIRST trade union of European public service, we have always used the best practices also of other institutions to fight the bad practices of the Commission and reject any unreasonable decision of our administration. 

The NON-PROMOTION EXERCISE: a catastrophic three-act saga for AST-SCs! 

First act: “Sorry dear colleague, your performance has been outstanding! We would have proposed you for promotion, but there was not a single quota in our DG for your grade”. 

Every year, around the month of June, the Administration publishes in SYSPER2 the list of colleagues that are proposed by their Directors-General for a promotion to the higher grade. Unfortunately, very few AST-SC colleagues are on this list! 

When most of the AST-SC colleagues meet with their line managers in order to understand why they didn’t get the desired promotion, they always receive a very frustrating reply, confirming the very high quality of their performance without being able to reward them the due to the desperate lack of promotions’ quota (or very limited) in the DG for AST-SCs! And unfortunately for us, this disappointing response is not the typical excuse given often by managers, but absolutely true, because in many DGs the Available quotas are 0 or 1, for all SCs categories together. 

Second act: “An appeal is your only option!” 

Following the non-proposal for a promotion, the DGs and HR correspondents encouraged the outstanding AST-SC colleagues who could not even be considered for promotion due to a lack of quota to go on launching an appeal, while themselves would support the colleagues by sending an exceptional request to the administration in order to increase the SCs’ promotion possibilities. Too good though to be true… 

Third and final (?) act: “Adding insult to injury!!” 

The (NON) promotions exercise is concluded at the beginning of November, where the additional list of successful appeals is added to the list of June. For the 2023 the publication of the proposals for promotion in June and the final published list in November included the following results for the entire Commission: 


A first visual inspection of this table shows that DG-HR reserved just eleven (11) quotas for the promotion of SC colleagues during the appeals phase. In these circumstances, it is clear that despite all its more than admirable efforts, the Joint Promotions Committee has no way of providing a satisfactory response to colleagues' more than legitimate expectations. And, within this “War of the poor”, out of these 11 quotas, nothing was given to SC4s or to SC3s. Just two SC2 colleagues and 9 SC1s. That is why, even the encouragement to appeal, wasn’t but an additional disappointment to the already extremely frustrated colleagues. 

R&D wonders? In the end, is the letter and spirit of article 45 of the Staff Regulation really applied for AST-SCs? 

In fact, when an entire DG is not given any quota for a given grade and it is not possible to get quotas down from higher grades, it means that for our AST-SC colleagues, in these grades and in this specific DG, the Article 45 of the Staff Regulations is not really applied. And while, DG-HR will always find a way to (try to) convince us that the AST-SC promotions “algorithm” respects the Annex I of the staff regulations, the truth is probably far from that. 

Not all algorithms are the same, obviously… 

Worse still, every year it becomes clear that some highly visible AD colleagues, "sitting close to the sun" are promoted with much less seniority in their grade compared to the seniority provided for in Annex IB. 

Internal AST-SCs competitions – 

NOT THE FOURTH ACT of the story but a real opportunity for our colleagues, which we are going to defend! 

However, this file had already got off a very bad start: as soon as the Commission's new policy on internal competitions was announced, R&D  stated that it was incredible that there should be ABSOLUTELY NO provision for the AST-SC! 

The administration's response was that the Staff Regulations did not permit the organisation of such internal competitions. R&D  immediately supported the petition organised by our colleagues in TAO-AFI, members of the Alliance to which we belong, asking for internal competitions to be organised for AST-SC colleagues. 

The immediate consequence of this unacceptable approach was, of course that many AST-SC colleagues left the Commission to join other Institutions that were more responsive to the legitimate demands and expectations of our colleagues. 
 
With the aim of countering the administration’s arguments and proving that they had no basis, R&D  presented the ‘good practices’ that our R&D ’s sections in other institutions had negotiated, namely at the Committee of the Regions, European Council, European Parliament, etc... that had actually organised such internal competitions for AST-SC under the same Staff Regulations. 
 
Better late than never: reason has finally prevailed! 

We are pleased to say that we have won a battle here and that our advocacy has tipped the scales, as the administration has finally announced that an internal competition will be held to allow AST-SC colleagues to access the AST career will be published before the end of 2023. 
 
However, R&D  deeply regrets to see the departure of highly qualified AST-SC colleagues as a result of the administration's refusal to accept immediately the legitimate requests to rectify this injustice. 
 
FACTA NON VERBA! 

Making big announcements is no longer enough! Action must be taken. And it's not enough just to act; it's all about doing the right things. 

Thus, finally announcing that these internal competitions will be organised for AST-SCs is not enough. 

These internal competitions must finally meet our colleagues' AST-SC more than legitimate expectations concerning: 

- how many posts will be on the reserve list, 
- the grades of access,
- the frequency of their organisation. 
 
R&D  will ensure that all these requirements be duly taken into account in the internal competitions organised for AST-SC. 

Enough of a piecemeal strategy! 

R&D  calls on the Commission to meet our demands and the expectations of our AST-SC colleagues by offering them real career development, while at the same time repairing the damage caused by delays in their careers for which the Commission alone is responsible. 

Cristiano Sebastiani, 
President

Online Training Sessions on the oral tests for the AD9-10-12 internal competitions

21/06/2023 , ,

 


To help you prepare for the oral tests of your internal competitions in the best possible way, we are organising two coaching sessions with our specialist trainer Ruth Harland. 

                                 SAVE THE DATES

Coaching sessions for EPSO oral tests of AD9-10-12 internal competitions

Our training are FREE for R&D members and those who wish to join our trade union!

R&D ISPRA BECOME A MEMBER

REGISTER:

To participate in the sessions, it is mandatory to complete this form:

Coaching sessions / oral test AD9-10-12 INTERNAL COMPETITIONS

 Deadline for registration: 27/06/2023 at 5.00 pm 

Please note that your registration will be confirmed only

 if you register via the links above

 If you have any questions, you can contact us at : JRC-RD-ISPRA@ec.europa.eu

Note to DG HR_Internal Competitions 2022-2023 – How can we improve?

20/06/2023 , , , ,

 

 

 

 

Internal Competitions 2022-2023 – How can we improve?

We would like to share with you the Note that R&D Ispra sent last Friday to DG HR. 

Thanks to the comments received by our members, who took part in the Internal competitions in progress, we were able to highlight some critical and reasoned points on the selection procedure.

We hope that this Note will be taken into consideration for the future internal competitions. 

Read more:  Note to DG HR_Internal Competitions 2022-2023 – How can we improve?

Update: Reply received from Ms. Ingestad DG HR 10/07/2023

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