From CRECER tutoring and SkillsBoost workshops with children in Tránsito Amaguaña School in Ecuador and Nuevo Chimbote in Peru, to digital empowerment with UPA in Kampala, youth support work in Georgia, an early childhood kindergarten assistant role in Kenya, embodiment and contact improvisation training in the French Pyrenees, eco-building and clay pizza oven life in Latvia, weaving inclusion through arts in Covilhã, and creating a collective artwork for a European Capital of Culture 2028 in France — this batch of 17 opportunities spans 15 countries across four continents. Fourteen fully funded ESC volunteering placements and three Erasmus+ training courses and seminars.
Every ESC placement is fully funded — flight, accommodation, food, monthly pocket money and insurance. Every Erasmus+ training covers travel and stay. A large group of deadlines falls 14–30 June.
📊 What's in this batch:
14 ESC Volunteering Placements · 3 Erasmus+ Training Courses & Seminars · 15 Countries · 4 Continents
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
Closing 14 June
🇺🇬 Uganda — Digital Empowerment Volunteer with UPA, Kampala 💻
📅 Deadline: 14 June 2026
Train UPA staff and local partners in ICT, communication and social media marketing, manage UPA's digital platforms, and run digital skills sessions for schools and community organisations — stay at Villa Mamu plus some days with a host family near Kikooba School.
🇬🇪 Georgia — Youth Support & Empowerment Worker with Merkuri 💪
📅 Deadline: 14 June 2026
Lead youth programs for children and young adults aged 8-25, support at-risk youth, raise awareness about domestic violence, run workshops and clubs, mentor local volunteers — ⚠️ Two years of youth work experience and a recognised youth worker qualification required. Host family accommodation.
🇪🇨 Ecuador — CRECER, Tutoring & Community Work at Tránsito Amaguaña School 📚
📅 Deadline: 14 June 2026
Daily tutoring with children in reading, writing and basic math, facilitate SkillBoost workshops on peace, digital literacy and innovation every three months, lead youth circles on emotional wellbeing and identity, and support community outreach with parents and educators — 30 hours of Spanish lessons fully covered.
🇬🇭 Ghana — Digital Empowerment Volunteer with KoCDA 💻
📅 Deadline: 14 June 2026
Strengthen computer awareness among students and promote ICT in teaching and learning at a grassroots organisation — work with school children, teachers and community members to build essential digital skills for the future. Background in ICT or education a strong plus.
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🇵🇪 Peru — CRECER, Supporting Schools & Communities in Nuevo Chimbote 🤝
📅 Deadline: 14 June 2026
Work alongside local educators, families and youth volunteers in vulnerable communities — academic reinforcement in reading, writing and maths, plus Physical Education, Art classes and SkillsBoost emotional wellbeing workshops — social theatre, collective murals and creative reading clubs included. 30 hours of Spanish lessons provided.
🇬🇭 Ghana — Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning Volunteer with GDCA 📊
📅 Deadline: 14 June 2026
Review existing M&E processes, build reliable systems, develop tools, indicators and templates, analyse and visualise field data, contribute to donor reporting and mentor staff to create a learning culture — ⚠️ Prior M&E experience and strong English (B2-C1) required.
Closing 15–17 June
🇮🇹 Italy — Social Farm, Disability Day Centre & Migration Centre Work 🌾
📅 Deadline: 15 June 2026
Three rotating activities — social farming with disadvantaged people, daily centre workshops in art, recycling and cooking with adults and kids with mental disabilities, and a migration centre with adults and children — single room accommodation and yearly bus pass included.
🇰🇪 Kenya — Kindergarten Assistant Teacher with CIVS, Early Childhood Education 🎒
📅 Deadline: 17 June 2026
Work alongside local teachers in preschools, daycares and kindergartens with children aged 3-6, many affected by poverty, orphanhood or HIV/AIDS — support play-based learning, literacy and creative activities while children receive free education and meals.
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Closing 20–25 June
🇷🇴 Romania — Oradea Youth House, Events, Outreach & Workshops 🎯
📅 Deadline: 20 June 2026
Facilitate workshops, create photo and video content, organise flash mobs and awareness campaigns, and help run a vibrant youth centre serving young people aged 14-35 — onboarding training in non-formal education, facilitation, human rights and safeguarding included.
🇱🇻 Latvia — Fruits & Campfires Clay&Play, Permaculture & Eco-Building 🌿
📅 Deadline: 21 June 2026
Build a pizza oven with clay and straw, plaster a garden wall, restore an outdoor shower, clean a nature-protected river, dig a relaxation area by the pond, and run a kitchen with three vegetarian meals a day — evenings of fire, music and shared hobbies. Zero alcohol policy.
🇫🇷 France — Artwork for Youth, Collective Art for a European Capital of Culture 2028 🎨
📅 Deadline: 25 June 2026
Create a collective artwork — land art, fresco or another method to be decided together — and help embellish a city preparing to host major cultural events as a European Capital of Culture 2028 — artists at any level welcome. Tent accommodation and group cooking. ⚠️ Male volunteers only.
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Closing 30 June – 1 July
🇱🇹 Lithuania — Open Youth Work at "MES" Youth Centre in Vilnius 🎮
📅 Deadline: 30 June 2026
Tournaments, movie nights, cooking sessions, sleepovers, summer camps and the chance to build your own club or workshop based on what you love — a year of open, informal youth work in the heart of Vilnius.
🇧🇪 Belgium — Youth Centre Don Bosco De Takel, Multicultural Youth Work by the Sea 🏄
📅 Deadline: 30 June 2026
Engage with young people aged 12-25 from disadvantaged neighbourhoods, immigrant backgrounds, refugees and asylum seekers — plan and lead activities, contribute to ongoing projects on sports promotion and female youth empowerment, and live the Don Bosco pedagogy — bike provided.
🇪🇸 Spain — Leisure & Occupation Support for Adults with Disabilities at Jeroni de Moragas 🤝
📅 Deadline: 1 July 2026
Be a meaningful connection for adults with intellectual diversity, mental illness and autism spectrum disorder — daily therapeutic and pre-labour activities, community projects like a musical group, football team and TV/radio sessions — Catalan lessons included.
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🎓 Erasmus+ Opportunities
🇵🇱 Poland — International Solidarity Project Meet-Up 2026, Seminar, Warsaw 🤝
📅 Deadline: 30 June 2026
A gathering of 60 young people who initiated or are running ESC30 Solidarity Projects in their local communities — share your project, learn from others, get inspired and connect with the European Solidarity Corps family — apply solo or with a teammate.
🇫🇷 France — Bodies in Dialogue, Embodiment, Consent & Contact Improvisation, Training Course, French Pyrenees 💃
📅 Deadline: 30 June 2026
Somatic Practices, Contact Improvisation and Consent-Based Approaches for youth workers, social workers, artists and community practitioners — tools for emotional regulation, burnout prevention, co-regulation, mutual listening and embodied learning — ⚠️ 50€ membership fee required.
🇵🇹 Portugal — Weaving Inclusion, Identities & Art, Training Course, Covilhã 🧵
📅 Deadline: 30 June 2026
Arts-based methods exploring identity, diversity and belonging through textile art, storytelling, multimedia, crafts and co-creation — strong focus on supporting LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent youth — ⚠️ Working language is Portuguese — designed for lusophone youth workers.
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Seventeen opportunities across 15 countries and four continents in a single batch — and this list reaches further than most ESC and Erasmus+ batches all year. CRECER tutoring and SkillsBoost workshops with children at Tránsito Amaguaña School in Ecuador and in Nuevo Chimbote in Peru, digital empowerment with UPA in Kampala, youth support work with Merkuri in Georgia, an early childhood kindergarten assistant role with CIVS in Kenya, embodiment and contact improvisation training in the French Pyrenees, eco-building and clay pizza oven life in Latvia, weaving inclusion through arts in lusophone Covilhã, and creating a collective artwork for a European Capital of Culture 2028 in France — these are not opportunities you'll see grouped together again.
Ghana stands out with two complementary GDCA and KoCDA roles in digital empowerment and Monitoring & Evaluation. Latin America offers two CRECER placements in Ecuador and Peru with Spanish lessons included — and the Caucasus, Africa and Europe are all represented in the same batch. A large group of placements closes 14 June. Multiple deadlines fall 30 June. Act now.
