🤝 European Solidarity Corps Volunteering in Estonia 🇪🇪 Youth Work Community Engagement and Solidarity in Tartu 🌍 Voluntary Service in Tartu 2026

🧭 About the Volunteering Opportunity
Voluntary Service in Tartu 2026 is an European Solidarity Corps individual volunteering project implemented by Tartu Youth Work Center in Estonia. The project brings together 3 volunteers to support youth work activities and community engagement in different youth centres across the city of Tartu. Volunteering is designed as a pathway to solidarity, focusing on young people, inclusion, and active participation at local level.

Each volunteer will be based mainly in one youth centre, acting as their “home” centre, while also contributing to city-wide youth activities together with the project team.

🎯 Main Aim
To foster solidarity, active participation, and youth engagement through community-based youth work and volunteering in Tartu.

🧩 Volunteer Tasks and Activities
🤝 Support daily youth work activities in a local youth centre
🎨 Lead at least one club based on personal interests and youth centre themes
🎬 Initiate small-scale events such as cultural evenings or movie nights
🌍 Organise weekly community activities in the youth centre district
🗓️ Support city-wide youth events together with the project manager
👥 Cooperate with youth workers and other volunteers in team activities

👤 Participant Profile
👥 Aged 18–30
🌍 Open to applicants regardless of social, educational, economic, or cultural background
🧠 Motivated to learn and develop personally through volunteering
🤝 Flexible, open-minded, and proactive
🌱 Interested in discovering new cultures, traditions, and customs
🗣️ Willing to learn or improve a foreign language
📄 Ready to apply with CV and motivation letter and attend a Zoom interview

🗓️ Activity Dates
📅 From 08 February 2026 to 08 October 2026

📍 Location
Tartu, Estonia 🇪🇪

🏠 Accommodation and Daily Support
🏡 Shared apartment in Tartu or individual accommodation
💶 Food and pocket money provided according to ESC rules

📚 Training and Learning Opportunities
🗣️ Linguistic support and language learning opportunities
🎓 Trainings and events provided by the Estonian National Agency
🤝 Regular staff meetings and youth work events at Tartu Youth Work Center

🌍 Eligible Countries
Austria 🇦🇹 Belgium 🇧🇪 Bulgaria 🇧🇬 Croatia 🇭🇷 Denmark 🇩🇰 Finland 🇫🇮 France 🇫🇷 Germany 🇩🇪 Hungary 🇭🇺 Ireland 🇮🇪 Italy 🇮🇹 Latvia 🇱🇻 Lithuania 🇱🇹 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Malta 🇲🇹 Norway 🇳🇴 Poland 🇵🇱 Portugal 🇵🇹 Slovenia 🇸🇮 Spain 🇪🇸 Sweden 🇸🇪 Ukraine 🇺🇦

🗣️ Working Language
English

🏢 Host Organisation
Tartu Youth Work Center

🔗 Application Link
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/49453_en

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