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Official Preview Boundary and Pre-training Map

Confirmed AD8 fields, planned dates, unknowns and the boundary between official facts and predictive practice.

Predictive training. Notice, eligibility and test format are not published.Open EPSO preview
All 14 modules
Part 1 · Official preview and EU foundations1. Official Preview Boundary and Pre-training Map 2. EU Institutions and Competences 3. EU Lawmaking and Legal Acts 4. EU Budget, Administration and Digital Policy
Part 2 · Artificial intelligence regulation and governance5. AI Act Risk Architecture 6. AI Act Roles, Obligations and Governance 7. AI Data Governance, Privacy and Procurement
Part 3 · Artificial intelligence technical knowledge8. Machine Learning, Data and NLP Foundations 9. Generative AI, Large Language Models and RAG 10. MLOps, Evaluation, Robustness and Oversight
Part 4 · Cybersecurity law and technical practice11. EU Cybersecurity Law and Governance 12. Security Architecture, Identity, Cryptography and Cloud 13. Secure Delivery, Detection, Response and Forensics 14. Resilience, Supply Chain and AI Security

Snapshot

Confirmed AD8 fields, planned dates, unknowns and the boundary between official facts and predictive practice.

Module status

  • •Track: Official preview
  • •Last verified: 2026-08-04
  • •Scope: Pre-training only. The Notice of Competition has not been published.

What EPSO confirms

The official planned-competitions page lists EPSO/AD/430/26 for ICT experts at AD 8. It names two fields: artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. It gives 8 September 2026 as planned publication and 13 October 2026 as planned deadline. Both carry the explicit warning that dates are to be confirmed.

What remains unknown

The preview is not a Notice of Competition. It does not establish eligibility, professional-experience calculations, selection tests, languages, timing, pass marks, ranking rules or reserve-list size. Training must not convert a preview into invented official rules.

How this package predicts useful scope

The package uses three layers. Normal EU knowledge trains institutional and policy context. Current EU legislation supplies stable AI and cyber concepts. The historical EPSO/AD/398/22 ICT notice supplies a comparator for plausible senior ICT duties: project leadership, policy, architecture, risk, data, AI, cloud, operations and security. That notice is evidence of past EPSO scope, not the future AD/430/26 syllabus.

Candidate operating rule

Practice principles and applied judgment now. Reconcile the package against the published notice before relying on competition-specific details. Treat all clocks as practice pace until EPSO publishes a test matrix.

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