“I am working since 2008 for the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), for the Section for Economic and Monetary Union and Economic and Social Cohesion. In 2016, I passed a specialised EPSO competition for financial economics, and became an appointed official. My fields of work are on financial and capital markets and the budget of the European Union, but also issues related to strategic foresight.

In my job I work closely with the members of the EESC, that represent organised civil society, and that feed with their expertise into the EU´s policy making process. I give input in the process of drawing up opinions, organise hearings and conferences, and write speeches. It is of paramount importance to stay up to date to policy developments. To this end, I liaise closely with colleagues from the European Commission, but also with Parliament, think tanks, and civil society interest groups. I enjoy working in a multicultural working environment, with highly competent and interesting colleagues in my unit and the organisation. My job gives me insight to a range of topical policy matters that fit with my educational background.”

"Being a policy officer in the field of migration fully corresponds to what has been my main subject of interest ever since I studied refugee law at university. Gaining hands-on experience from both the Danish Immigration Service and UNHCR and witnessing a real refugee crisis in 1996-97 certainly gave me an insight I have used a lot since I started in the migration team in the Council Secretariat back in 2015, right at the beginning of a refugee crisis in Europe. It is also tough to do this line of work because you deal with a policy that affects many thousands of people directly every day and there are no easy solutions."

"I am from Italy and my hometown is Bologna, in the Emilia-Romagna region. 
I work as a legal assistant at the Boards of Appeal. My daily work mostly consists of drafting appeal decisions. In this position, I have the chance to deal with many legal grounds and complex cases relating to EU trade marks and registered Community designs. This makes my daily work very various and interesting under several aspects. I am also an accredited mediator and occasionally I have the chance to litigate before the General Court of the EU. In particular my role as a mediator makes my work closer to users and their most profound interests. As an IP professional and previously an attorney-at-law, getting back in touch with ‘clients’ and providing them with effective dispute resolution tools is a part of the work I was truly missing. 
 I really enjoy living close to the sea and enjoy Alicante’s beaches. Nevertheless, my favorite places in Alicante are its coves where the water is often crystalline, and one can enjoy a more natural, peaceful and private environment. I also like other sea spots in Alicante’s province such as Playa La Granadella or mountain natural springs in the interior such as El Toll Blau where the environment is greener and fresher.     
Becoming an IP specialist at the EUIPO is a unique opportunity to join a multicultural and very dynamic work environment and represents an important challenge for any IP professional who wishes to give a tangible contribution to the EU economy and IP ecosystem. The EUIPO has been awarded as the most innovative IP Office and I can agree that new professional paths are always possible here. Furthermore, working with such great experts from all over the EU and sharing different professional and personal backgrounds is a very enriching experience which makes me continuously improve my skills and broaden my competences."

“Upon completing my master’s in public policy at Erasmus, I joined the European Commission as a Blue Book Trainee in March 2020. After my traineeship I enrolled in the Junior Professionals Program which gave me the chance to work across different DGs on sustainable policies, before returning as Policy Officer in DG CLIMA. As such, I experienced the multifaceted and leading work that institution engages in ranging from developing ambitious guidance for national energy and climate plans to climate diplomacy in both the bilateral and multilateral spheres. 

In recent times, increasingly more emphasis is placed on the European Green Deal as the leading vision to further develop climate policies and inspire other countries. This leadership role has a direct impact on my daily work, whereby I am participating in international negotiations directly related to COP 27 outcomes in Egypt, as well as the implementation of the low carbon measures in Member States Recovery and Resilient Plans. 

In my short time at the Commission, I have seen an institution that it is willing to take a leading role and address European and global challenges in an undeterred manner. This in combination with colleagues from all over EU, with their unique cultures, backgrounds, experiences, languages create an environment that I can only be proud to be part of representing.”

Martin holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Malta and MA in European Public Affairs from University of Maastricht. Following a stint in the area of tourism, he began his European career in the social and vocational training sector in Brussels in 2003 where he worked as for two European NGOs as a Public Affairs Officer and project manager.

Martin moved to the European civil service in 2008 when he joined the Crisis Management Unit within the European Commission’s Secretariat General (SG). He worked for over 5 years as Policy Officer and Team Leader responsible for providing internal coordination and support to ensure that the Commission can contribute effectively to crises that require action at Community level. Martin then worked in the SG Transparency Unit where he contributed to the implementation and further development of the Commission's wider policy on transparency and lobbying regulation. Martin joined the European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO) in late 2020 and worked as Policy Assistant to two Directors of the Office until assuming the role of Acting Head of EPSO’s Planning & Competition Management Unit in 2026.

“Working in the Budget and Cohesion Unit in the General Secretariat of the Council is not all about crazy Excel tables and getting caught up in figures. It is actually a very exciting policy post! People may think that budgetary affairs are boring, but the opposite is true. We work in a very political environment where the real priorities of the EU get decided: where the EU spends the money is what really matters, and we are right at the heart of that interesting and (sometimes) exhilarating decision-making process!”

"My name is Maria and I am Spanish, from Madrid. I have lived in Brussels for the last 20 years and I have to say that I have very much enjoyed it since the start. Brussels is a not so big, but it is very cosmopolitan, which suits me very well. In the streets, you overhear so many languages and see so many different types of people, which strangely makes me feel at home.
Having a background as a lawyer, I have been working in DG ECHO since 2008. DG ECHO deals with Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection. Specifically, since 2016 I have been working in the directorate dealing with emergencies, first in the European Emergency Response Center (ERCC) and now dealing with the European Humanitarian Response Capacities (EHRC).  
The ERCC helps to coordinate a coherent EU response to major natural and man-made disasters occurring inside and outside the EU: earthquakes, cyclones, floods, conflicts, etc. The Center provides a platform for coordination within the EU institutions and Member States.  It also has a 24/7 duty system that coordinates with partners like the UN, international organizations, NGOs and other crises centers in the EU and the world.
Concretely, now I work as a Team Leader of the EHRC which designs, sets up, and monitors DG ECHO's directly implemented operations outside the EU, especially after emergencies.
The EHRC is a set of operational tools designed to provide rapid but temporary support to partners to fill operational gaps in the humanitarian response where the humanitarian community struggles to provide support, thus helping to cover immediate needs of the affected population.   
The different instruments of the EHRC include the provision of common logistics services to humanitarian partners in the form of international and in-country transport operations (i.e., Air Bridges), warehousing capacities, prepositioning and delivery of emergency stockpiles, deployment of logistics and health experts, etc.
Unfortunately, there are too many crises in the world, but what I really like about my job is that, when disasters strike, I contribute to saving lives and bringing support and relief to vulnerable populations, partially fighting the feeling of helplessness that we all have when facing such human tragedies. 
If you feel this itch and like to work in an international environment, I encourage you to join us. It is also a very dynamic environment, with many dedicated colleagues driven by a shared passion to bring European solidarity to those in need.  Good and committed professionals have plenty opportunities to grow, travel, live abroad while doing a fulfilling job at the European institutions."

"I am Maurizio, I am the Head of the European Parliament's Liaison Office in Milan. I am blind and I have been working for the EU institutions since 2015, when I started my European career as press officer.

My everyday work consists in dealing with different audiences of Italian citizens – media, youth, students, stakeholders, businesses – in order to raise awareness on European Parliament functioning and activity.

I never had problems because I was disabled. I don’t feel any obstacles. If you have a positive attitude, even if people are ignorant or sceptical, if you’re keen on sharing your experience, you can break walls."

Daniela is an official since 2000. She joined the EU and started working at Luxembourg, after 2 years she moved to Brussels and her career path transformed into a new way of serving the European Organizations. She started in DG INFSO, moved to DG AGRI and finally arrived at DG HOME. In 2005, she started to study transpersonal counseling and in 2010, she moved into another direction. She decided to support colleagues in the European institutions through coaching and systemic healing. She studied in different universities until she got the PCC ICF, professional coaching certificate and discussed her university thesis on master systemic constellation in Belgium.

Daniela keeps a systemic methodology when assisting her clients: she enhances strengths and weaknesses, to empower officials, staff and managers to face fears and improve their own style. Daniela is thriving when coaching, respecting and adapting to her clients' preferences; she keeps an eye on research to improve her understanding of people’s needs, reveal insights, and inspire innovative solutions in future management and leadership research.

She is professor at POLI.design, a branch of Politecnico in Milan. Her program is about empowerment to enhance leadership and creative skills of students of Master Strategic design. Daniela Terrile | Master in Strategic Design

People inspire Daniela; she strongly believes that people have insights and internal resources to be effective and resilient. Coaching is not about the form or fixing a person; coaching is enhancing the potential, to gain the place in society, and become what people deserve and dream to be.

Since 2015, she created a concept “Coaching4all” to support colleagues and human beings in their personal and professional development. Her motto is “my SUCCESS is YOUR SUCCESS”.

“Since 2017 I have been working in DG Energy. Currently I coordinate the finance team in the Chief Economist unit. Our team is looking at financing for energy, with a focus on EU funding for energy priorities, and on developing measures that facilitate private financing for the clean energy transition and the decarbonisation of our economies.

Over the last months our work has been very much focussed on REPowerEU, exploring possible solutions and measures to mitigate the impact of the current energy crisis, and reduce our energy dependence on Russia. The work has increased in complexity, has accelerated, and it is often on the top of the political agenda.

One of the best aspects of my work is the chance to work together with amazing colleagues, people that I truly admire, for their knowledge, competence, but also for the way they are, and the way they interact with other people.”