Navigate your EU Career – Online Fair

Navigate your EU Career
25 June 2026 – Online
11:00 AM – 4:00 PM CEST 

Navigate your EU Career is the second event in the EU Careers Fair 2026 series, a year-long programme designed to help candidates better understand careers across the European institutions and agencies.

Following the first event, which focused on entry routes and recruitment pathways, this edition turns attention to the reality of EU work itself: how institutions and agencies translate political priorities into operational action across Europe and beyond.

From policy and law to operations, finance, digital transformation, communication, and coordination, the event explores what working for the EU actually looks like in practice. This is not about institutional theory. It is about understanding how EU work happens every day across teams, functions, and organisations.

Why attend

Many candidates are drawn to EU careers because they want to contribute to meaningful public action, but often have only a limited understanding of what the work involves once inside the system. Behind every EU policy are professionals working across operational, legal, financial, analytical, scientific, digital, and communication functions to turn priorities into programmes, services, and results.

This event is designed to help you better understand how EU institutions and agencies operate, explore the different roles and profiles involved in EU work, and hear directly from recruiters and institutional representatives. You will also have the opportunity to discover where your own background and interests may fit, move beyond common assumptions about EU jobs, and ask practical questions about teams, projects, responsibilities, and career realities.

What to expect

The event will feature live discussions with EU institutions and agencies, practical conversations about roles, projects, and working environments, and direct exchanges with recruiters and institutional representatives. There will be Q&A sessions focused on career realities and organisational needs, as well as networking and interaction spaces. The event is fully virtual, free, and accessible from anywhere.

This is a career orientation and EU workplace insight event, designed to help candidates navigate EU careers more realistically and confidently.

Free registration. Limited places.

Candidate Registration

Who should attend

This event is suitable if you:

• are a citizen of an EU member state
• hold a Bachelor’s degree as a minimum,
• have professional proficiency in English,
• are exploring or actively considering a career in the European institutions or agencies.
   

We welcome students, graduates, career changers, and experienced professionals – from all disciplines with backgrounds in:

• Law
• Political Science & International Relations
• Economics
• Business Administration & Management
• Public Administration / Public Policy
• Computer Science / IT / Cybersecurity
• Communications / Journalism / Media Studies
• Engineering
• Environmental & Climate Sciences
• Statistics / Mathematics / Data Science

Whether you are at an early exploratory stage or already considering applications, this event will help you make informed decisions about EU careers in 2026 and beyond.

We look forward to welcoming you.

Attending Organisations

The European Personnel Selection Office’s (EPSO) role is to serve the EU institutions by providing high quality, efficient and effective selection procedures that enable them to recruit the right person, for the right job, at the right time. EPSO is an interinstitutional office responsible for selecting staff to work for all institutions and agencies of the European Union including the European Parliament, the Council, the European Commission, the Court of Justice, the Court of Auditors, the European External Action Service, the Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, the European Data Protection Supervisor and the European Ombudsman. Each institution recruits staff from among the pool of successful candidates provided by EPSO.

The European Parliament acts as a co-legislator, sharing with the Council the power to adopt and amend legislative proposals and to decide on the EU budget. It also supervises the work of the Commission and other EU bodies and cooperates with national parliaments of EU countries to get their input. The Parliament sees its role not only in promoting democratic decision-making in Europe but also in supporting the fight for democracy, freedom of speech and fair elections across the globe.

The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union. Its main roles include proposing new laws and policies, monitoring their implementation and managing the EU budget. The Commission also ensures that EU policies and laws are correctly applied across Member States, negotiates international agreements on behalf of the EU, and allocates funding. Additionally, it represents the interests of the EU on the global stage, ensuring a coordinated approach among EU countries. 

The European Committee of the Regions intervenes at several stages of the EU law-making process. CoR commissions draft opinions on EU legislative proposals and members gather in plenary to vote and adopt those opinions.
The CoR also works closely with national, regional and local authorities; our political action is based on the belief that cooperation between European, national, regional and local levels is essential if we are to build an ever closer and more mutually supportive union among the people of Europe and respond to the challenges of globalisation.​​

Eurojust is the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation, it is a is a unique hub based in The Hague, the Netherlands, where national judicial authorities work closely together to fight serious organised cross-border crime.

The role of Eurojust is to help make Europe a safer place by coordinating the work of national authorities – from the EU Member States as well as third States – in investigating and prosecuting transnational crime.

Europol (the European Police Office) is headquartered in The Hague, the Netherlands and its mission is to support its Member States in preventing and combating all forms of serious international and organised crime, cybercrime and terrorism. Europol also works with many non-EU partner states and international organisations. Large-scale criminal and terrorist networks pose a significant threat to the internal security of the EU and to the safety and livelihood of its people. The biggest security threats come from: terrorism; international drug trafficking and money laundering; organised fraud; the counterfeiting of euros; trafficking in human beings.

Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, supports EU Member States and Schengen-associated countries in the management of the EU’s external borders and the fight against cross-border crime. Frontex is a centre of excellence for border control activities at the EU’s external borders, sharing intelligence and expertise with all Member States and with neighbouring non-EU countries affected by migratory trends and cross-border crime. With the Standing Corps, the European Union’s first uniformed law enforcement service, Frontex has transformed into an operational arm of the EU. 

The EUAA (European Union Agency for Asylum) acts as a resource for Member States in the field of international protection, with the ability to provide practical, legal, technical, advisory and operational assistance in many formats. The ultimate aim of the EUAA’s work is to reach a situation where the asylum practices in all EU+ Member States are harmonised in line with EU obligations, meaning that an application of an individual in any of the EU+ Member States will always receive the same result.

The ELA (European Labour Authority) contributes to ensuring fair and effective labour mobility across the EU and to assist Member States (plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) and the European Commission in the coordination of social security systems in the EU.
The free movement of workers and services is one of the key pillars of the European Union and seen as one of the main achievements of EU integration. Millions of EU citizens live or work in another Member State.
It provides citizens and companies with the opportunity to seek work and provide services across the EU.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) lies at the heart of European justice. It is an institution that comprises two courts – the Court of Justice and the General Court. As the judicial authority of the Union, it works in close collaboration with national jurisdictions of the Member States to ensure the consistent interpretation and application of the EU Treaties and law. As an employer, the CJEU strives for excellence and values multilingualism, inclusiveness, diversity, and collaboration.

ETF (European Training Foundation) is an agency of the European Union (EU) helping EU neighbouring countries to reform their education and training systems as part of EU external relations policies.
By supporting human capital development, the ETF contributes to social and economic development and long-term stability in EU neighbouring countries.
The ETF is based in Turin, Italy. 

The Single Resolution Board (SRB) is the central resolution authority within the Banking Union which at present is the 21 eurozone countries. Together with the national resolution authorities it forms the Single Resolution Mechanism. The SRB works closely with the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the European Banking Authority and national authorities to ensure an orderly resolution of failing banks, protecting the taxpayer from state bail-outs, which is promoting financial stability.