🇲🇹 ESC Volunteering in Malta 🌱 Food Systems, Biodiversity & Environmental Advocacy at Friends of the Earth 🌍

Food policy, biodiversity protection, community action, and a volunteer role that connects all of them. This ESC placement in Malta puts you inside one of the country’s most comprehensive environmental campaigns — working at the intersection of food systems, climate action, and public health advocacy.

Friends of the Earth Malta (FoEM) is one of Malta’s leading environmental organisations, and their FAB campaign — Food, Agriculture, and Biodiversity — is exactly what it sounds like: ambitious, evidence-based, and rooted in real community work. As a volunteer, you become part of the campaign team, supporting research, events, advocacy, and outreach while helping make plant-based living in Malta more accessible and connecting sustainable diets with environmental protection.

⚠️ Applications must be submitted through the FoEM website — not through the EU Youth Portal.

What Is This Role About?

This is a wide-ranging, policy-meets-community role. You will be contributing to an evidence-based strategy that links food systems, biodiversity, public health, and EU-level environmental policy — while also doing the day-to-day work of building relationships, organising events, and supporting the people and communities who make grassroots campaigns actually work.

Activities & Responsibilities

🌿 Organising volunteer meetings and encouraging active citizenship

💰 Supporting the implementation of a fundraising strategy and internal policies

🔍 Research into campaign funding, project ideation, development, and writing

🎉 Organising events for target groups FoEM has not yet worked with extensively

🤝 Developing relationships with communities — especially marginalised groups — ensuring diverse voices have space in the work

🔗 Supporting the building of strategic partnerships with key stakeholders and communities

🌐 Participating in FoE Europe network meetings and NGO networking events

📋 Developing actions and recommendations to strengthen synergies between FoEM and other organisations

📣 Supporting the planning and organising of FoEM events and workshops

Who Should Apply?

🔹 Age: 18 to 30 years old (ESC requirement)

🔹 A citizen of one of the partner or programme countries

🔹 At least a degree level of education

🔹 Strong interest in environment and sustainability topics

🔹 Knowledge of EU affairs and experience with EU projects is an asset

🔹 Excellent writing skills and ability to map out active citizen networks

🔹 Social skills for collaboration, interpersonal effectiveness, and relationship building

🔹 Experience in fundraising for grassroots campaigns is a plus

🔹 Understanding of civic engagement, civil participation, and social change

🔹 Ability to work in collaborative decision-making processes

🔹 Affinity with the vision and values of Friends of the Earth Malta

Training & Support

🎓 The volunteer will be involved in FoEM campaign teams and will grow their interest and expertise in the field throughout the placement

💡 FoEM offers a unique opportunity to carry out an innovative set of tasks — sharing creativity and experience within a dynamic, diverse office environment

🇪🇺 Opportunity to participate in FoE Europe network meetings and broader European NGO networks

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Accommodation & Practical Details

🏠 Shared flat close to the FoEM offices in Floriana

💡 All living costs covered — electricity, water, gas, and internet

✈️ Flight and transport to/from Malta reimbursed up to a set limit

💶 Monthly allowance provided

🛡️ Private Henner insurance included

♿ In case of disabilities, additional funding available for support — therapy, interpreters, and more

Activity Details

📅 Activity Period: 11 May 2026 – 10 May 2027

📍 Location: Xatt ic-Cangatura, Malta

👤 Activity Type: Individual Volunteering

🏷️ Project Code: 2025-2-MT01-ESC51-VTJ-000384963

Deadline

⏰ 30 April 2026

Eligible Countries

🇦🇱 Albania 🇩🇿 Algeria 🇦🇲 Armenia 🇦🇼 Aruba 🇦🇹 Austria 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan 🇧🇾 Belarus 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇧🇶 Bonaire Sint Eustatius and Saba 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇨🇼 Curaçao 🇨🇾 Cyprus 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇩🇰 Denmark 🇪🇬 Egypt 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇫🇮 Finland 🇫🇷 France 🇵🇫 French Polynesia 🇹🇫 French Southern and Antarctic Territories 🇬🇪 Georgia 🇩🇪 Germany 🇬🇷 Greece 🇬🇱 Greenland 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇹 Italy 🇯🇴 Jordan 🇽🇰 Kosovo 🇱🇻 Latvia 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇱🇾 Libya 🇱🇮 Liechtenstein 🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇲🇹 Malta 🇲🇩 Moldova 🇲🇪 Montenegro 🇲🇦 Morocco 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇳🇨 New Caledonia 🇲🇰 North Macedonia 🇳🇴 Norway 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇵🇱 Poland 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇷🇴 Romania 🇷🇺 Russia 🇧🇱 Saint Barthélemy 🇷🇸 Serbia 🇸🇽 Sint Maarten 🇸🇰 Slovakia 🇸🇮 Slovenia 🇪🇸 Spain 🇵🇲 St Pierre and Miquelon 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇸🇾 Syria 🇹🇳 Tunisia 🇹🇷 Türkiye 🇺🇦 Ukraine 🇼🇫 Wallis and Futuna

Apply

📄 Apply through FoEM website: https://foemalta.org/vacancies/2026-10/

🔗 Official Project Page: https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/51336_en

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