NP/EFSA/KNOW/2025/01 - EU Academy platform support and account maintenance
Deadline to register interest: 08/10/2025 CoB
Background
In September 2019 the Transparency Regulation was formally published in the Official Journal of the European Union and amends the General Food Law (Regulation 178/2002). With the Transparency Regulation EFSA aims at: (i) Increasing transparency in EFSA's work; (ii) Revisiting EFSA's processes to allow for the implementation of the new Regulation; (iii) Redesigning EFSA's scientific processes and methods to address future risk assessment challenges; (iv) Introducing new data and metadata formats; (v) Strengthening collaboration with other institutions and paying more attention to public opinion to foster an open and trustful dialogue.
Harmonisation of Risk Assessment methodologies across the EU has been also identified as a major goal in the EFSA strategy 2027. Teaching European experts in Risk Assessment on the principles described in EFSA’s guidance documents contribute to reaching this goal. In order to be able to open the scientific training offer towards EFSA’s ecosystem and due to the fact EFSA has no solution/platform currently in place to deliver trainings and sharing training material with external experts, it was decided to access a digital platform that will allow courses and events to be hosted and delivered to a wider audience.
Having this in mind, the Knowledge, Innovation and Partnership Management (KNOW) Unit piloted, with excellent results, the use of EU Academy platform, a tool developed by JRC and put at all European institutions’ disposal.
In the last three years, 13 courses have been prepared, uploaded, and published in EU Academy. The courses range from scientific training courses on cross cutting guidance documents to anti-fraud courses. At present, intentions are to further expand the content offered through EU Academy by adding courses and materials to its library and facilitating access to them for multiple categories of participants. Also, the intention is to further develop the functionalities offered by the platform through EFSA’s account and to devise methods to attract and maintain learners.
The activities require a high level of expertise regarding the EU Academy platform operation, about EFSA’s training offering, its procedures and about EFSA ecosystem.
Objectives
The aim of this negotiated procedure is to conclude a one-year contract that focuses on offering support for account management activities related to EFSA’s learning activities and presence on the EU Academy platform. This is meant to ensure a solid support to the EFSA Subject Matter Experts who have the responsibility to produce and deliver the scientific content for training courses. Overall, the call will contribute towards supporting the dissemination and implementation of harmonised methodologies for risk assessment (as described on EFSA Guidance documents), across the EU and internationally.
Selection criteria
- Professional capacity: overall at organisational level - Ability and an extensive and proven experience (at least 2 years) in coordinating and administering training activities on digital platforms as evidenced by at list one major project caried out in the past 5 years
- Professional capacity at individual level: A digital platform coordinator with an academic background (3 years university degree) and at least 2 years of experience in coordinating and administering training activities on digital platforms
- Professional capacity at individual level: English language capacity An excellent level of spoken and written standard UK English. For non-native speakers, this must be demonstrated by an Official certificate of English proving a B2 level OR at least 3 years of work or study in an English-speaking environment