The European School of Administration (EUSA) is responsible for the design and delivery of a training programme related to the 'certification procedure' whereby officials from the EU institutions can move from the category of assistant to that of administrator. The main tasks of the contractor will be to prepare the detailed contents of the courses, to provide a team of trainers to deliver the certification training programme and to develop and provide documentation for candidates.

The training programme will consist of approximately 28 days' classroom-based training. The training programme is organised in French and in English and the courses will be run separately in English and French. Each group consists of 10 to 12 candidates. In 2012 there were 4 groups following the training in French and 8 in English. 10 groups were in Brussels and 2 in Luxembourg. It is not expected that these linguistic and geographical balances will change much in future years, although this cannot be excluded.

The framework contract is foreseen to be signed in the second half of 2013 and the provision of the training services will start with the 2014 programme.