Call for Expression of Interest for Remunerated Experts - European Environment Agency (Copenhagen)

About this position

The summary below is published by European Environment Agency on the official vacancy notice. Our own analysis — salary realism, comparable openings, career trajectory, language profile — follows further down the page.

Key responsibilities

According to the vacancy notice, the role centres on the following duties:

• Support creation of other EEA products including technical briefings, articles, etc.
• Support creation of digital EEA services, including AI assistants, websites, portals, etc.
• Provide expert opinion about tenders or proposals received within field of expertise
• Facilitate technical meetings including support to preparation and preparing materials/participate as invited speaker
• Provide expert advice and support in developing training materials and/or training programmes and/or deliver training courses as tutors
• Provide expert advice and technical leadership in architectural strategy, technical implementation and cross-organisational orchestration in digital technologies
• Provide expert advice to support rapid health impact risk assessments and inform urgent response during cross-border environmental incidents

Are you eligible?

Check these requirements from the notice before investing time in an application:

• Eligibility: Natural persons only, not representing any company/organisation. EEA Scientific Committee Members, EEA Management Board members and members of the Climate Advisory Board are not eligible during their appointment in said positions. Staff in service at EEA or any other EU Institution are not eligible.

Selection process

The notice describes the following selection steps:

• Evaluation committee verifies applicants pass exclusion and selection criteria
• Committee evaluates submitted applications on regular basis
• For particular assignments, EEA may organise short interview with selected expert to verify technical ability
• Selected expert must submit documentation within 10 calendar days of notification of appointment

Contract and working arrangements

Contract duration: Maximum 3 years from first publication of call; maximum 3 assignments per year per expert; maximum EUR 143,000.00 total during whole duration of call.

Hiring unit: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Position overview

This is the official EU Careers listing for Call for Expression of Interest for Remunerated Experts at EEA based in Copenhagen.

Notice of Call for expression of Interest – Remunerated Experts – Various scientific profiles

For the establishment of a list of external experts to provide scientific expertise to the European Environment Agency

Please send us your application by no later than 10.02. 2027 at midnight (Copenhagen time).

This call for expression of interest is launched and managed by the European Environment Agency (hereinafter referred to as the “EEA” or the “contracting authority”).

The EEA, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the EU agency responsible for providing information on the European environment. The aim of the EEA is to ensure that decision-makers and the public are kept informed about the state and outlook of the environment by delivering timely, targeted, relevant, and reliable information to policymakers and the public. This is done to assist the European Union in its attempt to improve the environment and move towards sustainability in Europe. The legal basis of the EEA can be found in the EEA regulation. The EEA collects environmental data from the Member Countries, other EU institutions and international organisations through its established network called EIONET (the European Environmental Information and Observation Network). Based on this information, the EEA produces reports on various environmental topics. The EEA’s main report, published every five years, is the State and Outlook on the Environment in Europe (SOER). Based on the understanding that the public should be ensured easy access to the data and information used in the EEA work programme for periodical reporting, the EEA offers various data and map services. See the following link: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps. All EEA publications are available electronically on the EEA web site and are free-of-charge.

The objective of this call for expressions of interest is to establish a list of individuals (natural persons, not representing any company/organisation) with scientific expertise to assist EEA in conducting preparatory work (including data related activities) in support of EEA’s scientific activities with the main focus areas outlined below.

It shall be noted that the list above is non exhaustive and that more areas of expertise may be considered depending on the scope of EEA’s activities.

It is important to note that this call is aimed to complement existing EEA contracts, grants and procedures and shall not be seen as replacing or overlapping with them, and it shall therefore only be used for needs/tasks that are not covered by other arrangements already in place.

It should be noted that the subject matter experts are appointed “ad personam” and will not be considered as representatives of any organisation or affiliation they may be employed by or associated with. For this reason, the successful applicants will be required to complete an Identification form in their own name, as a ‘natural person’ and not in the name of their employer. If the applicant has a 100% owned private company, then this may exceptionally be used to complete the Identification form.

The list of external experts will be divided into areas of expertise. The areas of expertise are listed above.

Applicants may apply for more than one area(s) of expertise and shall clearly indicate in their application (see section 4) how their background expertise and past experience is relevant for each selected area. Such reference shall contain as a minimum the activities or projects in which the applicant participated that are pertinent in the respective area of expertise.

Experts included in the list could be asked to carry out tasks related to dedicated topical work, for example:

•Support creation of other EEA products including technical briefings, articles, etc.

•Support creation of digital EEA services, including AI assistants, websites, portals, etc.

•Provide an expert opinion about tenders or proposals received, but limiting the opinion to their field of expertise

•Facilitate technical meetings including support to preparation and preparing the materials/ participate as invited speaker

•Provide expert advice and support in developing training materials and/or training programmes and/or to deliver training courses as tutors, in scientific topics within EEA’s remit

•Provide expert advice and technical leadership in architectural strategy, technical implementation and cross-organisational orchestration in digital technologies.

•Provide expert advice to support rapid health impact risk assessments and inform urgent response during cross-border environmental incidents of threat for human health (e.g. cross-border pollution incidents, heat waves, and wildfires).

Please note that the list of tasks provided above is indicative and non-exhaustive.

When assisting EEA in the performance of the tasks mentioned above all work shall be performed in compliance with any relevant procedures, applicable rules and regulations etc. All necessary information will be made available to the selected expert(s) by EEA prior to commencement of the respective assignment.

2.3.General overview of the procedure

The procedure is based on Article 247 of the EU Financial Regulation.

Individuals are invited to submit an expression of interest in accordance with the rules set out in this notice.

EEA as the contracting authority will draw up a list of individuals who meet the eligibility and selection criteria set out in section 3.3 of this call.

An evaluation committee will be appointed for the overall duration of the call to verify that applicants pass the exclusion and selection criteria set out in this notice, in order to be included in the list. The committee shall evaluate the submitted applications on a regular basis. All applicants that are included in the list will be notified, in writing.

The list resulting from this call for expression of interests and any further updates are valid for maximum 3 years from the first publication of the call for expressions of interest. EEA retains the right to close the open call for expressions of interest at any time.

The list resulting from this call for expression of interests will be used for execution of the tasks such as those described at section 2.2 above. Inclusion on the list entails no obligation on the part of EEA to award a contract.

Maximum amount that can be paid to an individual during the whole duration of the call (3 years) is EUR 143,000.00 (hundred forty-three thousand euros), including remunerations and possible reimbursements.

In order to ensure rotation of experts, a maximum of 3 assignments per year will be assigned to the same expert.

Individuals included in the list will not act or speak on behalf of EEA and EEA cannot be held responsible for their actions and expressions.

2.3.1.How individuals are selected for particular assignments

Where a particular task described under section 2.2 is to be performed by an individual expert, EEA will consult the list in order to assign individual(s) to the task on the basis of the skills, experience and knowledge necessary and in accordance with the principles of non-discrimination, equal treatment and absence of conflict of interests. The tasks will be formalised in a request for service sent to the individual expert selected. Before sending the request for service, the EEA may organise a short interview with the selected expert, to verify the technical ability to perform the tasks. The duration of the assignments will depend on the nature and complexity of the tasks, and it will be established once the specific need arises and will be specified in the contract.

The EEA reserves the right to select more than one expert and address the request to several experts in case of non-availability of the initially selected expert.

On notification of contract appointment, and before contract signature, the expert shall be required to submit the following documentation, within 10 calendar days of notification of appointment, duly completed, signed and in original (please note that these are not required for the application process – only in case of contract assignment):

-Expenses reimbursement, if relevant.

-Declaration on honour on exclusion and selection criteria (see Annex 2)

Notwithstanding conditions deriving from the specific tasks to be assigned, countersignature of the contract implies acceptance of all the conditions provisioned in the draft contract. Therefore, while drawing up their application, interested experts shall bear in mind the provisions of the draft contract (see Annex 3).

2.3.2.Declarations of confidentiality

All experts are expected to ensure that their contractual and professional obligations in particular with regard to confidentiality, independence and absence of conflict of interests are well understood and upheld throughout and after any contract assignment (see Annex 3). Due to the nature of this call, EEA Scientific Committee Members, EEA Management Board members and members of the Climate Advisory Board shall not be eligible to apply to be included in the list of experts, during their appointment in the said positions. Staff in service at EEA or any other EU Institution are not eligible for inclusion in the list and cannot be selected for appointment for specific assignments.

EEA will request an individual declaration of confidentiality to be submitted prior to the signature of the contract. Individual declarations will be assessed by EEA as a condition of the contract signature and constitute Annex 3 to the Contract.

2.4.Conditions of appointment for a particular assignment

2.4.1.Remuneration

Individuals shall be remunerated at a fixed fee of EUR 450 (four hundred and fifty euros) per day worked.

The individuals shall commit to respect applicable national legislation, including taxation, social security and labour law with regard to any payment received from EEA.

Application timeline

This vacancy was first listed on 29 May 2026, 109 days ago.

No closing date is published in the source feed for this position. EU vacancies typically remain open for four to eight weeks; check the official vacancy notice for the cut-off date and time.

Last verified against the EU Careers feed on 15 September 2026.

Where to learn more

For headcount, mission, and other open vacancies at EEA see the EEA institution page; for the cost of living, correction coefficient, and other postings in Copenhagen see our Copenhagen location page.

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