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Conference: 2025 appraisal and promotion/reclassification exercises

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*Update 20.01.2025, we’ve closed the list for reviewing your appraisal text with you. If you still want out help please send us an email.*

Original article: We publish this early enough for you to make a start on listing your achievements, training and highlights throughout 2023 to avoid you having to hit the ground running in January. This conference explains the evaluation process and offers tips. Join us Tuesday, 9 January 2024, 12:00-13:30. We cover how to prepare your self-assessment and your one-on-one interview with your line manager (‘reporting officer’) [1] this is applicable both to the promotion (officials) and reclassification (Contract Agents, except 3b)[2]. Continue reading Conference: 2025 appraisal and promotion/reclassification exercises →

Free training offer: Internal competitions AD5/AD6/AST2/ASTSC2 – Tips and tricks

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*Update 10.12.2024, here is the recording & Presentation of the session.  Generation 2004, in collaboration with Yasemos Europeos, is happy to offer you a free online training for Internal competitions to share with you, tips for the application process as well as an analysis of the tests (MCQ test on EU policies and institutions, Written test and Oral test).   There will be a Q&A session after the presentation. Continue reading Free training offer: Internal competitions AD5/AD6/AST2/ASTSC2 – Tips and tricks →

Free conference: Contract Agents career & Review of the Temporary Staff decision

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*Update 20.12.2024, Here’s our Note to HR on European Court of Auditors Special report.pdf

*Update 02.12.2024* Here are the recording and the presentation 1 and 2

Original article: Do you need clarification concerning the career of Contract Agents? Would you like to learn more about the career duration and current options available for advancement? Have you heard about the 7-year rule and ever wondered what it implies in practice and how it has been recently applied?

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Generation 2004: Your Voice in the European Commission 

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At the European Commission, staff representation is the cornerstone of ensuring fairness and equality in the workplace. Whether you’re a newcomer or a long-serving colleague, understanding how that representation works and why it matters is essential. Generation 2004 is here to ensure that your voice is heard, that your concerns are addressed, and that your workplace evolves to meet your needs.  Continue reading Generation 2004: Your Voice in the European Commission  →

10 days of teleworking from outside the place of employment: use them or lose them!

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*Update 26.08.2025 here’s the new link with instructions on how to encode those days, note that even Blue Book trainees can have 5 days.*

Original article: It’s been use it or lose it  at the Commission for some time now and the 10 days of teleworking from anywhere (TWA) are an example of this. Article 11 of the March 2022 working time and hybrid working (WTHW) decision gives all staff the right to enjoy up to 10 days of teleworking from outside their normal workplace per year, upon their request, subject to the agreement of the line manager. Continue reading 10 days of teleworking from outside the place of employment: use them or lose them! →

Why you don’t have to wait for retirement to pursue your dreams

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** Update 03.03.2025, As promised, Gudrun is sharing her Dream Activation Kit, a powerful resource designed to help you gain clarity, unlock your potential, and take the first steps toward your dream life. This free kit includes a 12 step guided roadmap, a self-assessment quiz, a unique guided somatic embodiement exercice and an exclusive free Dream Activation Call with Gudrun to support your transformation. 👉 Get access here (from a private computer or your mobile phone):

https://shandora.mvsite.app/products/courses/view/1168412

Continue reading Why you don’t have to wait for retirement to pursue your dreams →

Newsletter editorial – 15-11-2024

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Welcome to the eleventh edition of  Generation 2004 newsletter for 2024. In this edition, we are covering a range of topics, including updates on other locations such as the Canteen in Ispra,  the Healthcare system in Italy and the lack of transparency of the promotion system in  EEAS.  We invite you to share your experiences with the JSIS special reimbursement .   We are happy to provide you with the recording and slides of our free training on AD7 EPSO competition in partnership with Yasemos Europeos .  We raise again the issue of low temperature in the office.  As always, we keep on fighting for a fairer future for our ASTs colleagues and share with you the highlights of the ECA Report. Additionally, we have news on the Annual Salary Update 2024 in Brussels and in ISPRA and on the concrete action launched to help the people of Valencia. Finally, we inform you on the ‘voluntary’ availability During End-of-Year Break, the ‘End of Service’ IT access, the upcoming Changes to the Mission Guide and the next steps for Promotion/Reclassification.

That’s all for now!

Enjoy the reading and get in touch if you believe we can help!

Ispra Correction Coefficient

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*Update 02.12.2024 here’s the official announcement of the 2024 annual update of remuneration and pensions**Update 21.11.2024 check out the European Court of Auditors, 2024, Special report 24/2024: EU Civil service–A flexible employment framework, insufficiently used to improve workforce management: it concludes that Continue reading Ispra Correction Coefficient →

AST & AST-SC staff: ECA Report Highlights Long-Standing Career Challenges

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*Update 19.02.2025: ‘By default, all [internal] competitions will be cross-category.’ (Stay tuned: A new approach for internal competitions) This is excellent news and should now put the Commission on an even footing with the Parliament and other EU institutions. We hope that this inclusion is genuine and that the competitions are not  otherwise skewed to reduce participation.* Continue reading AST & AST-SC staff: ECA Report Highlights Long-Standing Career Challenges →

ISPRA : Access to Health Care in Italy – Sick of Waiting 

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*Update 02.05.2025: Beware, we have no published source for this, so this is hearsay, but we felt it important enough to keep in mind. [*]  It has been suggested that those choosing to leave pension contributions made to the Italian state in Italy (i.e. not doing a transfer into the Pension scheme of the EU institutions (PSEUI)) might have/retain some claim to having a national health insurance card, the tessera sanitaria.  Do you have any information on this?

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