From Sem&Vol Dordogne masonry and woodwork in a welcoming French village and three more French Sem&Vol delegations covering Citrus Delegation building renovation and the Vir'Volt Ecological Village in a forest, to a 13th-century church tower transformed into open youth work in Germany, Role-Playing Games-based youth development in Germany, ECCO rural volunteering with an outdoor equipment library in Norway, the Balkan Hotspot media project in Greece, two complementary Sicilian housing community shelters, the Art of Wellbeing nature and mindfulness training in Czechia with one night sleeping under the stars, and the Europe as a Resource for Local Youth Work seminar in Estonia— this batch of 30 opportunities spans 18 countries across Europe and Africa. Twenty-seven fully funded ESC volunteering placements and three Erasmus+ training courses, e-learnings and seminars.
Every ESC placement is fully funded — flight, accommodation, food, monthly pocket money and insurance. Erasmus+ trainings cover travel and stay; the e-learning is free. A large group of deadlines falls 19–28 June.
What's in this batch:
27 ESC Volunteering Placements · 3 Erasmus+ Training Courses, E-Learnings & Seminars · 18 Countries
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
🇫🇷 France — European Volunteer with School Life, Boarding School and Civic Engagement 🏫
📅 Deadline: ASAP
Contribute to the vibrant life of a boarding school by supporting Student Union initiatives and eco-delegate projects — help run activities that promote student engagement, civic participation, community spirit and sustainable development awareness, organise events and group projects and act as a liaison between the school and local associations.
🇩🇪 Germany — Youth Development through Role-Playing Games in a European Context 🎲
📅 Deadline: ASAP
A volunteer role using Role-Playing Games to offer young people personal development opportunities — help expand community building, language learning and youth development through RPGs, run RPG events, work with schools on language and social learning, create RPG concepts and a magazine, manage social media and produce YouTube content alongside three other international volunteers.
🇫🇷 France — Sem&Vol Dordogne with Masonry, Woodwork and Collective Life 🛠️
📅 Deadline: ASAP
A regional delegation of a national non-formal education movement in a welcoming small village — take part in daily workcamps (minor masonry, woodwork, painting, environmental work), organise and join local intercultural activities and events, build networks between local and association partners, promote the association and volunteering and lead international workcamps during summer — ⚠️ Open to ages 18-30; driver's license highly recommended.
🇦🇹 Austria — Volunteering Makes a Difference with Solidarity for Global South Communities 🌍
📅 Deadline: ASAP
An NGO working in solidarity with people in Africa and worldwide — contribute your talents (crafts, design, music, sports and more) for unprivileged peers in the Global South, gain new skills in education, volunteering and youth work, manage social networks and join workshops on sustainable living, photography, spirituality and crafts.
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🇫🇷 France — Citrus Delegation with Building Renovation and Collective Life 🛠️
📅 Deadline: ASAP
A regional delegation of a national non-formal education movement gathering people from different cultures and social backgrounds — renovate the building, settle the outdoors with a large garden, organise daily collective life, get involved in the local community, lead international workcamps during summer and promote volunteering with three other volunteers — ⚠️ Open to ages 18-30; driver's license highly recommended.
🇮🇹 Italy — ESCalade Volunteering Mountain with Residential Centre for People with Disabilities 💛
📅 Deadline: ASAP
A residential centre focused on inclusion, also hosting young people with fewer opportunities — two volunteers work morning or afternoon shifts five days a week, supporting daily activities such as creativity, games, gardening, music, reading, walking, eating and cooking workshops, with space to create new activities based on their own interests and hobbies — ⚠️ Open to ages 18-28 from EU countries only.
🇫🇷 France — Vir'Volt Ecological Village with Wooden Construction and Collective Life 🌳
📅 Deadline: ASAP
An ecological village in the middle of a forest with wooden accommodations and mostly outdoor spaces — organise collective life (cooking, cleaning, logistics), take part in ecological wooden construction, host groups of youth with fewer opportunities, animate international workcamps during summer and contribute to cultural events with four other international volunteers and five youth with fewer opportunities — ⚠️ Open to ages 18-30; driver's license highly recommended.
🇩🇪 Germany — Open Youth Work in a 13th-Century Church Tower with Digital Civil Courage ⛪
📅 Deadline: 19 June 2026
A 13th-century church tower transformed into a space for open youth work and self-realisation — fill the tower with life by running a weekly youth club, organising holiday trips, excursions, workshops and themed events for local action weeks, and contribute to a media project promoting digital civil courage and standing against online hate.
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🇭🇷 Croatia — Individual Volunteering with Community Empowerment and Social Inclusion 🤝
📅 Deadline: 19 June 2026
A short summer placement supporting community empowerment and social inclusion — organise thematic workshops, coordinate social and cultural events, conduct local research and exhibitions, provide information to young people, implement community actions and intercultural evenings, encourage local volunteering and carry out dissemination through social media, online campaigns, interviews, articles and video — ⚠️ Open exclusively to volunteers with fewer opportunities.
🇩🇪 Germany — Environmental Education at a Rural School Country Home with Wildlife Foundation 🦌
📅 Deadline: 19 June 2026
A school country home in the foothills surrounded by ecologically managed fields and forests, offering unique nature experiences for children and adults — support school trips, holiday camps, project weeks, seminars and conferences, build your own ideas and projects and embrace a slower pace far from hectic city life — ⚠️ Very rural location, nearest train station 30 minutes by bicycle.
🇳🇴 Norway — ECCO Rural Volunteering with Youth Projects and Outdoor Equipment Library 🏞️
📅 Deadline: 19 June 2026
A very rural placement after a last-minute cancellation — try out and take on different tasks: prepare and run leisure-time projects with and for children and young people, support an outdoor equipment rental service and a library, and bring your own ideas to a flexible volunteering setup — ⚠️ Open to ages 18-30; very rural environment.
🇹🇷 Türkiye — Short-Term Volunteer for Two Months with Sports, Arts, Environment and Disaster Awareness 🌍
📅 Deadline: 20 June 2026
A two-month volunteering adventure combining activities in sports, arts, education, environment, healthy lifestyles, entrepreneurship and disaster awareness — gain new skills, meet people from different cultures and contribute to the community through non-formal learning workshops, intercultural activities and digital content creation.
🇷🇴 Romania — Volunteering For a Better World with Street Art, Greenhouses and Anti-Discrimination 🎨
📅 Deadline: 20 June 2026
A summer project bringing 20+ volunteers together to improve the local area and combat discrimination and racism — paint the walls of schools where children from disadvantaged backgrounds learn, set up greenhouses that will become gardening workshop spaces, support greening campaigns, deliver non-formal education for children from disadvantaged areas and help with public events — ⚠️ Open to ages 18-30.
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🇮🇹 Italy — RISE Rural Inclusion and Social Engagement with Social Farm and Migrant Centre 🌾
📅 Deadline: 20 June 2026
A long-term project combining three activities: a social farm promoting rehabilitation and integration of people with low contractual capacity (psycho-physical disabilities, drug addicts, minors, emigrants), a daily centre for children and adults with mental disabilities running manual art, DIY, recycling and kitchen workshops, and activities at a migrant centre — ⚠️ Only 1 place left after a last-minute cancellation.
🇮🇹 Italy — Animal Care Shelter with Rescued Farm Animals and Dogs 🐾
📅 Deadline: 21 June 2026
An animal welfare project with two sides: a sanctuary for rescued farm animals saved from exploitation and a dog shelter for dogs with chronic health issues needing medical care — get your hands dirty with animal care, security, hygiene tasks, long walks and communication — ⚠️ Veterinary/biology background or shelter experience preferred; vegetarian diet required at the shelter; remote small-town location.
🇮🇹 Italy — Hostel Monte Barro with Environmental Education and Creative Workshops 🏞️
📅 Deadline: 21 June 2026
Two volunteer spots at a hostel in a natural park focused on environmental education — assist with hostel maintenance and logistics, check-in guests and admin tasks, prepare and clean rooms, recycle and upcycle materials for hostel use and decoration, provide hiking and local info to guests, facilitate workshops for primary school students and design didactic activities on art, environmental education and creative recycling — ⚠️ Vegetarian or vegan diet required.
🇺🇬 Uganda — Community Development and Resilience Building in Slum Communities 🏘️
📅 Deadline: 24 June 2026
Support a charity working with marginalised slum dwellers, focusing on orphans and vulnerable children and youth — conduct outreach and awareness campaigns on sanitation and hygiene, provide after-school support to children, organise recreational activities (sports, arts), assist with fundraising for vulnerable households, train staff on social media management and join home and school visits to document success stories — ⚠️ Knowledge of social work + previous ESC/EVS/EU volunteering experience (except Humanitarian Aid Volunteering) required.
🇬🇷 Greece — Balkan Hotspot Media Project with Blog, Radio, Video and Social Media 📻
📅 Deadline: 26 June 2026
A media project where young people use online blogs, radio, video and social media for social and cultural purposes — in an international group, create and maintain spaces for free expression and communication between young people following European Union principles — become part of a network believing in free expression, solidarity and the values of European youth.
🇬🇪 Georgia — Supporting People with Disability with Sport, Arts and Advocacy 💛
📅 Deadline: 26 June 2026
An organisation working for a society where people with diverse needs and abilities experience equality, solidarity and inclusion — support day centres for children and adults with disabilities, help with sport and leisure activities (crafts, music, excursions, sport), assist daily routines, contribute to advocacy work and prepare and lead language lessons in German or English — team applications welcome.
🇮🇹 Italy — Summer Short-Term Volunteering for Rural Development with Community Arts and Sustainable Cooking 🌻
📅 Deadline: 27 June 2026
A short summer experience in a small village — join workshops in community music, social theatre and social videomaking, help maintain a community centre with bio-architecture and upcycling, run sustainable cooking workshops and foraging walks, support workcamps and artists' residencies, animate monthly fairs and summer camps and contribute to a web radio with video podcasts and digital storytelling.
🇭🇺 Hungary — Different Cultures on the Same Wavelength with Local Radio and Language Clubs 📻
📅 Deadline: 28 June 2026
Take active part in editing and broadcasting a local civilian radio — brainstorm, collect information, do technical tasks and create your own regular radio programme presenting the culture and language of your country, plus 6 programmes in English — run language club lessons for residents in your own language and help organise events for local and international young people.
🇺🇬 Uganda — Digital Empowerment Volunteer with ICT Trainings and Social Media Strategies 📱
📅 Deadline: 28 June 2026
Facilitate knowledge building and sharing among staff by conducting targeted trainings on digital skills, communication and marketing strategies tailored for social media platforms — manage and upgrade digital platforms, build capacity through ICT training sessions for staff and local partner organisations such as schools and community-based organisations.
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🇬🇭 Ghana — Digital Empowerment Volunteer with ICT Classroom and Computer Awareness 💻
📅 Deadline: 28 June 2026
Support ICT development among school children and the wider community — work in a recently upgraded ICT classroom, strengthen computer awareness among students, promote the use of ICT in teaching and learning and contribute to a grassroots organisation preparing young learners for future opportunities.
🇰🇪 Kenya — Teacher Assistant Volunteer with Early Childhood Education and Play-Based Learning 👩🏫
📅 Deadline: 28 June 2026
Support early childhood education in low-income communities by working alongside local teachers in a community resource centre and nearby pre-primary schools — strengthen children's physical, cognitive and emotional development through play-based learning, literacy support and creative activities with children aged 3-6, including a kindergarten serving around 90 children affected by poverty, orphanhood or HIV/AIDS — ⚠️ Compulsory Humanitarian Aid Volunteering training required.
🇩🇪 Germany — Voluntary Service at a Public Elementary School with Music, Sport and Theatre 🏫
📅 Deadline: 28 June 2026
A public elementary school of around 330 children with 16 classes from 1st to 4th grade — support teachers and students throughout the day across special offers in music, sport, reading, English, theatre, bicycle, experiencing nature and social interaction, then accompany all-day classes through the afternoon with diverse free-time activities.
🇮🇹 Italy — Sicily Housing Community for At-Risk Boys and Children 🏠
📅 Deadline: 28 June 2026
A social cooperative running shelters for young boys (13-18) and children (0-10) on a path of rehabilitation and social inclusion — support educators with after-school activities (homework support, foreign language lessons, educational workshops), run fun workshops in cooking, theatre and music, organise celebrations and manage daily community life by preparing shared meals and accompanying youngsters on trips — ⚠️ Open to ages 18-30 with social work or psychology background.
🇱🇻 Latvia — Jaunu Ideju Youth Centre with Cultural Activities and European Values Promotion 🎨
📅 Deadline: 29 June 2026
An informal youth centre where young people aged 12-25 spend their free time and express creativity through games, sport, art, debates, workshops and events — develop your own ideas and daily projects, run cultural activities and promote European values, create social media content together with local youth and bond with the local community.
🎓 Erasmus+ Opportunities
🇵🇱 Poland — Digital Entrepreneurship and E-Commerce Online Training with Youthpass, E-Learning 💻
📅 Deadline: 18 June 2026
A two-part online training series for 80 youth workers, trainers and leaders — Training 1 covers digital entrepreneurship, innovation, future market trends, business ideas, digital marketing fundamentals and scaling strategies — Training 2 covers e-commerce ecosystems, online sales channels, brand identity, social media promotion, product photography, graphic design and digital promotion planning — participation in both is required for Youthpass certification.
🇨🇿 Czechia — The Art of Wellbeing with Nature, Mindfulness and Art Techniques, Training Course 🌿
📅 Deadline: 22 June 2026
A week-long training for youth workers and coaches needing a real break, with participants from 7 countries — experience outdoor activities in meadows, forests and by the water, mindfulness, meditation and movement sessions, photography and art techniques, evenings by the campfire and one night sleeping in nature under the stars — ⚠️ Only 4 participants from Austria.
🇪🇪 Estonia — Europe as a Resource for Local Youth Work with Policy Frameworks and Funding, Seminar 🏛️
📅 Deadline: 28 June 2026
A seminar for 25 representatives of municipalities, youth organisations and local public institutions on how European cooperation, policies, programmes and funding can support quality youth work at local level — move from a shared understanding of quality youth work, through the analysis of local barriers, towards concrete follow-up commitments connected to the European Youth Work Agenda and the European Charter on Local Youth Work.
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Thirty opportunities across 18 countries in a single batch — and this list is unusually rich in collective village life, alternative pedagogies and rural environmental work. Sem&Vol Dordogne masonry and woodwork, three more French Sem&Vol delegations covering Citrus Delegation building renovation and the Vir'Volt Ecological Village in a forest, a 13th-century church tower transformed into open youth work in Germany, Role-Playing Games-based youth development in Germany, ECCO rural volunteering with an outdoor equipment library in Norway, the Balkan Hotspot media project in Greece, two complementary Sicilian housing community shelters, the Art of Wellbeing nature and mindfulness training in Czechia with one night sleeping under the stars, and the Europe as a Resource for Local Youth Work seminar in Estonia — these are not opportunities you'll see grouped together again.
France leads this batch with five placements — four Sem&Vol regional delegations (Dordogne masonry, Citrus building renovation, Vir'Volt Ecological Village in a forest plus the European Volunteer school placement) covering collective village life and international workcamps. Italy follows with six roles covering ESCalade mountain residential centre, RISE three-setting project, Animal Care Shelter, Hostel Monte Barro environmental education, summer rural community arts work and the Sicilian housing community. Germany has four placements (RPG youth development, 13th-century church tower, rural Wildlife Foundation, public elementary school). Uganda offers two complementary roles (slum community development requiring prior ESC experience, and Digital Empowerment). Poland E-learning closes 18 June. Five 19 June deadlines and four 20-21 June deadlines. The biggest cluster closes 24-28 June. Choose yours.
