*Update 14.11.2025 Here is the presentation. Thanks to the colleague who provided information for point 5: interinstitutional excellence hubs and linking it to the Luxembourg-specific EPSO competition for data specialists.* *Update 31.10.2025, 14.11.2025 is indeed a Friday. We have corrected the article and send huge thanks to the colleague who reached out to us!*
Original article: Generation 2004 is pleased to invite you to a lunchtime event to look at the ongoing challenge of attracting and retaining staff in Luxembourg (the ‘attractivity’ issue). We will look at the original 12 actions for Luxembourg: those announced in 2022, together with the default-direct-billing side-quest of October 2025. That’s not one of the 12 actions, not even part of our additional unofficial 13th action (hospital overpricing): is this issue really well-known enough for its solution to impact recruitment and retention in Luxembourg?
Friday, 14 November 2025
12:35-13.35 | Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris
Password (if requested): contact us
There will be 30 minutes of presentation and then 30 minutes of discussion.
The original 12 CALux actions
to address the interinstitutional difficulties of recruiting (and retaining) staff in Luxembourg
1: Launching site-specific European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) competitions,
2: Job shadowing initiatives for career guidance officers,
3: Creation of a common job platform,
4: Inter-institutional excellence hubs (e.g. financial, digital, legal),
5: Housing allowance[*],
6: Offer of temporary housing,
7: Jobs for spouses,
8: Interinstitutional cooperation of Welcome Desks,
9: Future of interinstitutional crèches in Luxembourg,
10: Common communication strategy,
11: Collaboration with the national authorities,
12: Cooperation with top European universities.
Have a look at our latest article on this topic and at our updates at 6 months, 9 months, 1 year and then at 2 years.
As always, we would love to hear from you.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch with us or leave a comment below.
If you are interested in becoming more involved or if you are thinking of standing in the November 2025 Luxembourg Local Staff Committee elections, please get in touch!
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[*] To give some context to the very high cost of living in Luxembourg, Eurostat, Supplement to the Eurostat Report on the 2022 annual update of remuneration and pensions of EU officials (Ares(2022)7508219-28/10/2022): Table 2 (p.13) gives a nominal correction coefficient of 124.8% for Luxembourg
