How does the disability reserve work in CNSC concursos?

Ley 2418 of 2024 requires every entity reporting vacancies to the CNSC to reserve 7 percent of the empleos offered in modalidad ascenso and 7 percent of the empleos offered in modalidad abierto for aspirants with disability. Aspirants using this reserve can also apply to general, non-reserved vacancies if they meet the requisitos, and they are exempt from paying the derecho de participacion once they have uploaded a valid certificado de discapacidad. The Concurso Docente 2026 process applies this reserve for the first time in a teaching concurso.

Which processes does the 7 percent reserve apply to?

Every CNSC concurso reporting vacancies under the framework Ley 2418 of 2024 covers, including both general administrative processes and the Concurso Docente. The reserve applies separately within each modalidad, so a process that offers vacancies in both modalidad ascenso and modalidad abierto reserves 7 percent inside each, not 7 percent of the combined total.

What do you need to claim the reserve?

A certificado de discapacidad, uploaded to SIMO as part of your hoja de vida before you claim the reserve on your inscription. The certificate has to be valid and specifically support the reserve claim; the CNSC has published lineamientos on how disability participation is verified during inscription, and those rules can be updated between processes, so check the current acuerdo before assuming last year’s procedure still applies.

Can you compete for both a reserved vacancy and a general vacancy?

The reserve gives aspirants with disability the option to apply either to a vacancy specifically reserved under the 7 percent quota or to a general vacancy they otherwise qualify for; it does not restrict them to the reserved pool alone. What you cannot do is inscribe to more than one empleo overall, the same one-job-per-aspirant rule that applies to every CNSC concurso; our post on what SIMO registration requires covers that rule in the context of choosing an OPEC number.

Does the reserve change how the tests themselves are applied?

The reserve is about the allocation of vacancies and the fee exemption, not a change to the content or passing standard of the tests. Separate accessibility accommodations during test application are a different matter from the vacancy reserve itself and are handled through the specific procedures the acuerdo and the universidad operadora publish for aspirants who need them.

What happens if a reserved vacancy gets no eligible applicants?

Reserved vacancies that end up without eligible aspirants have been declared desiertas in past processes, according to CNSC’s own published notices on the topic; the specific handling of an unfilled reserved vacancy is fixed by the acuerdo for that process.

FAQ

Is the 7 percent reserve new for 2026? The legal framework, Ley 2418 of 2024, predates 2026, but the Concurso Docente’s 2026 process is applying it for the first time within a teaching concurso specifically.

Does the reserve apply to CNSC Territorial 12 as well? General CNSC processes fall under the same legal framework for disability participation; check the specific acuerdo for CNSC Territorial 12 to confirm how the reserve is structured in that process’s ascenso and abierto modalidades.

Is the fee exemption automatic once I claim the reserve? The exemption applies once the certificado de discapacidad is validated as part of the inscription, according to CNSC guidance; the mechanics of how that validation happens are fixed in SIMO’s process for the specific acuerdo.

Can an aspirant with disability compete in modalidad ascenso? Yes, the 7 percent reserve applies separately within modalidad ascenso as well as modalidad abierto, for aspirants who are already career employees seeking promotion. Our comparison of modalidad ascenso against modalidad abierto explains the general eligibility split between the two.

Where can I read the CNSC’s own guidance on this reserve? On the CNSC’s own portal, which has published specific lineamientos for disability participation during inscription for both ascenso and ingreso modalidades; check the current version before an inscription window closes.