The whole country is holding its breath — but here's a thought for while you wait for kick-off: if Spain has ever been the place you pictured yourself living, working or studying, there has never been a better afternoon to make a move toward it. Right now there are 50 opportunities open across Spain, from teaching English in a village school to counter-terrorism programme management at the UN in Madrid, from bird-ringing in a protected wetland to running Erasmus events in Bilbao, from Waldorf kindergartens near Cartagena to a cat-café marketing internship.
Twenty-seven of these are fully funded ESC volunteering placements — travel, accommodation, food, monthly pocket money and insurance all covered. Twenty-one are internships, some paid, some running on an Erasmus+ grant, and a few unpaid but built around real experience. Two are Erasmus+ training courses covering travel and stay. Most deadlines fall between now and late September 2026, with a big cluster on 31 July.
What's in this batch:
27 ESC Volunteering Placements · 21 Internships & Traineeships · 2 Erasmus+ Training Courses · All in Spain
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
🇪🇸 Spain — Awareness and Social Action at a University Cooperation Office 💙
📅 Deadline: 22 July 2026
Based mostly at a university's Office of Cooperation and Volunteering, this placement puts you at the heart of a campus's social action. You will give awareness talks on social issues to the university community and create the materials for them, support the management of social media by making videos and posts, help run training activities for the community, and pitch in on everyday office tasks. Once a week you also visit the city's children's hospital to accompany very young children, a small but meaningful part of the role. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇱🇻 🇵🇹 and 19 more — campus social action, with a weekly visit that matters most.
🇪🇸 Spain — Inclusion and European Values at a Primary School 🌍
📅 Deadline: 26 July 2026
A primary school is looking for a volunteer to join its educational community as an active member of the team. You will support the daily life of the centre and help build a positive, inclusive and multicultural learning environment, all with the aim of promoting European values, intercultural exchange and solidarity through education and community participation. Working with teachers and staff across different areas of school life, you support the students and bring your own ideas, skills and cultural background into the mix. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇭🇷 🇫🇮 🇱🇻 🇵🇱 and 24 more — your own background becomes part of the lesson.
🇪🇸 Spain — Bird Monitoring and Habitat Restoration in a Wetland 🦅
📅 Deadline: 29 July 2026
Live and work inside one of the continent's most important natural areas, side by side with a team of local volunteers. You will take an active part in scientific bird monitoring programmes, from census work to ringing, and in habitat restoration projects and conservation campaigns across the wetlands and other natural areas. At the ornithological centre you will help run awareness campaigns and environmental education programmes for the local community, and support the staff working with visitors. Short courses in ecology, biology, species identification, ringing and monitoring techniques come with the placement. Open to residents of Italy — real ornithology training in a wetland of continental importance.
📋 New to ESC volunteering? Everything you need to know — how it works, who can apply, what costs are covered — is in one place. Read the complete guide →
🇪🇸 Spain — Teach English, Lead Conversations & Design European Values Projects at a School (Ages 3–18) 🌍
📅 Deadline: 30 July 2026
Classroom support, conversation sessions, project design on environment, health and culture, and free lunch at the school canteen. For one motivated volunteer aged 22–30 with strong English and intermediate Spanish — a full school of ages to teach, lunch included.
🇪🇸 Spain — Euroacción: Social Inclusion, European Programmes and Non-Formal Education 🌍
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Help develop the potential of European and local projects targeting young people while contributing to the social inclusion of children and young people with fewer opportunities through non-formal education. Support project management, administrative and logistical tasks, take part in seminars at youth centres, high schools and universities, and boost the visibility of European programmes through social networks and online media — see how European youth projects run, end to end.
🇪🇸 Spain — Neighbourhood Coordinator with Anti-Marginalisation and Family Support 🏘️
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
A project tackling social marginalisation in a neighbourhood facing real social challenges. Support families in the morning through workshops, practical help and Spanish lessons, then run after-school activities for primary and secondary students. Get involved in a beloved local community event and help develop new activities within the neighbourhood. Open to Italian residents only — frontline community work where the need is greatest.
🇪🇸 Spain — Public School with Innovative, Emotionally Aware Education 🎨
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
An educational centre welcoming children in an innovative environment focused on the emotional and psychological side of education. Work both outdoors (gardening, trips) and indoors (supporting teachers, preparing materials, art, helping with the school newspaper), accompany children at lunch and library hours, prepare themed workshops and document activities — education that puts feelings first.
🇪🇸 Spain — Talentismo: Autism Spectrum Support and Family Wellbeing 💚
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
An organisation supporting families with members on the autism spectrum and aiming to improve their quality of life. Guided by professionals, accompany individuals on their journey towards greater autonomy through swimming, gardening, eco-product sales, handmade workshops, listening therapy, communication, music therapy and leisure activities, and document everything through your own content — patient, professional-backed work that changes families' lives.
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🇪🇸 Spain — Youth Department with Bolsa de Idiomas Language Exchange and Eurodesk 🌍
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
A dynamic project at a Youth Department supporting young people in education, employment and international mobility. Design and run programmes, workshops and recreational activities (especially within the Bolsa de Idiomas language exchange and a local Eurodesk information point), manage social media and promote European opportunities through workshops at youth organisations and secondary schools. Open to Italian residents only — the information hub every young person wishes they'd found sooner.
🇪🇸 Spain — La Enredadera: Waldorf & Montessori Bilingual School with a Learning Community 🌳
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
A bilingual Spanish/English educational institution following alternative Waldorf and Montessori approaches and run as a Learning Community where teachers, families and children share the same vision. Support teachers in the kindergarten area during free play and gathering moments, run art, science and general learning workshops in English in the primary area, contribute to programming and material creation, organise personal activities with the children and interact with parents. Open to Italian residents only — alternative pedagogy, lived rather than studied.
🇪🇸 Spain — Traperos de Emaús: Circular Library with Reuse and Social Reintegration ♻️
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
A pioneer non-profit in collecting, reusing and recycling second-hand objects, running a social enterprise that employs people at risk of exclusion. Work mainly on a "Circular Library" project: classify donated books, welcome the public and explain the project, manage in-shop sales and online e-commerce, create content and run online visibility, organise events and liaise with authors, publishers and distributors, also contributing to direct support of beneficiaries. Open to Italian residents only — books, circular economy and social justice, all in one role.
🇪🇸 Spain — Las Peñas Blancas: Supporting a Montessori School in Nature 🌿
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Las Peñas Blancas is a school near Cartagena built on a Montessori-inspired method where learning fuses thinking, feeling and doing, with many lessons and play held outdoors. Support teachers and educators, accompany kindergarten children and help older pupils with languages, maths, science, culture and play, and design your own targeted workshops while promoting the ESC. ⚠️ Open to Italian residents only; experience in education or pedagogy required; application materials in English — a school where the classroom is often the open air.
💡 What do organisations actually look for in an ESC volunteer? Skills, values, attitude — what makes a strong profile. Read the guide →
🇪🇸 Spain — Jardín Waldorf: Kindergarten with Nature, Imagination and Storytelling 🌿
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
An association promoting the Waldorf pedagogical method through projects that place children in natural and highly creative contexts. Support teachers, accompany children through daily activities, play, supervise, prepare classrooms and workshops, tell stories while keeping a calm atmosphere, take part in school parties, workshops and staff meetings, create content about the project and produce handmade work, gaining hands-on experience of the Waldorf method in nature. ⚠️ Prior school, parish, pedagogy or Scout experience required; Open to Italian residents only — storytelling and calm as a teaching method.
🇪🇸 Spain — Teaching Assistant at a Kindergarten and Primary School 🎨
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Join a public school in a multicultural neighbourhood with a values-led, emotionally aware approach: support formal and non-formal learning through games, run creative, artistic and music workshops, give individual and small-group learning support, and contribute to community and environmental sustainability initiatives. Open to residents of Italy — a warm, values-driven classroom to grow into.
🇪🇸 Spain — Youth Information and Community Activities at a Town Hall (Murcia) 🎲
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Join a town hall in the Murcia region and work across its youth information service, play centre and recreational school activities. Help young people discover study and work opportunities, prepare awareness activities for schools, and promote European mobility programmes while championing solidarity, equality and inclusion. Open to residents of Italy — see how local government actually serves its young people.
🇪🇸 Spain — Supporting People with Disabilities through Art and Leisure 💙
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
A foundation working with people with intellectual and multiple disabilities, their families and everyone around them is opening a place for a volunteer. It runs a residence, two occupational centres, a day centre and sheltered flats, plus counselling for families and leisure programmes. Your days sit right in the middle of that: art therapy, gym sessions, library time, excursions, sewing, painting, crafts and personal development activities. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇩🇰 🇭🇷 🇮🇸 🇱🇻 and 18 more — the kind of role measured in human connection, not tasks.
🗺️ Not sure if your country is eligible? The full list of ESC and Erasmus+ programme and partner countries — including many outside the EU. Check eligibility →
🇪🇸 Spain — Running a Local Youth Centre with Teens 🎭
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Become part of a network of local youth centres, helping create a welcoming, safe and active space where teenagers can learn, meet others and develop new ideas. Your days involve supporting daily activities, organising workshops, games, cultural and community events, encouraging young people to take part, and helping with communication and creative projects. You work alongside experienced youth workers and other volunteers, with real freedom to develop your own ideas and lead activities around your interests, whether that is music, dance, theatre, sport, cooking or art. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇫🇮 🇮🇪 🇱🇻 🇵🇹 and 18 more — your own passion becomes the after-school programme.
🇪🇸 Spain — No Eido: Create an Edible Forest Through Permaculture & Agro-Ecology 🍎
📅 Deadline: 1 August 2026
Help revitalise a forest into an edible food source through citizen participation, run environmental education sessions and engage with groups at risk of exclusion, from people in addiction recovery and functional diversity to children and elderly. Training in permaculture and agro-ecology, plus Galician lessons — plant a forest people can actually eat from.
🇪🇸 Spain — Behind the Scenes at a Historical Re-enactment Festival (Asturias) 🏕️
📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026
Be the backbone of a massive historical festival that brings 20th-century history alive in a beautiful rural corner of Asturias. This hands-on logistics and setup project puts you behind the scenes: preparing settings, building immersive scenes with the crew, managing crowds, and keeping everything running smoothly during the public days. Open to applicants from 22 countries across Europe — build a time machine, then watch thousands walk through it.
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🇪🇸 Spain — Sustainable Development and Organic Gardening ♻️
📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026
Spend nine months contributing to a local network promoting the Sustainable Development Goals. Your main role is hands-on work in an urban organic garden, boosting ethical purchasing groups and responsible production and consumption. You will also support leisure activities for adults with intellectual disabilities, from cooking classes to basketball and theatre, and may join awareness activities with children or help organise trade fairs and charity events. Open to applicants from 32 countries across Europe — an urban garden and inclusion work, growing side by side.
🇪🇸 Spain — Democratic Participation and Wellbeing in a School Community 🏫
📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026
An education centre covering everything from early years through primary, secondary and vocational training is opening its doors to a volunteer, in a consortium with the town council and local schools. Together you will explore democratic participation in Europe and wellbeing at school through interdisciplinary themes of art, nature, culture and languages. They are looking for someone proactive who lives the values of respect, cares about recycling and the fight against global warming, takes mental health seriously and can inspire young people to see themselves as global citizens. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇩🇰 🇮🇪 🇳🇱 🇸🇪 and 5 more — democracy and wellbeing, woven through a whole school.
🇪🇸 Spain — Socio-Educational Work with Children and Young People 🤝
📅 Deadline: 13 September 2026
Support children, adolescents and young people through socio-educational activities rooted in non-formal education. You will help plan, run and evaluate workshops, educational leisure activities and community initiatives that push participation, inclusion, creativity and personal development, and depending on your interests you may also work on projects with older adults and families, sparking intergenerational learning. On top of that you will help promote the ESC and Erasmus+ by creating communication materials and joining info sessions. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇫🇮 🇲🇰 🇳🇴 🇷🇴 and 23 more — become a real member of the local community, not a visitor.
🇪🇸 Spain — Supporting Young Migrants through Non-Formal Education (Basque Country) 🤲
📅 Deadline: 13 September 2026
Join a community-based project supporting young migrants in vulnerable situations as they build new lives in the Basque Country. Working alongside educators at a reception centre, you will organise educational and leisure activities, support Spanish language practice, run workshops and community events, accompany young people to cultural and social activities, and help the educational team plan and evaluate. Continuous support comes with it: on-arrival guidance, a personal mentor, daily backing, regular reflection sessions and online language support. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇮🇸 🇱🇹 🇲🇰 🇷🇸 and 26 more — a soft landing for young people starting over.
🇪🇸 Spain — Education, AI and Sustainability 💻
📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026
Combine education, digital innovation and sustainability in a lively school community. Support English teachers with conversation activities and language games, then design and deliver two interactive workshops: one on Artificial Intelligence, exploring AI tools, digital skills and responsible use, and another on sustainability and the circular economy, with recycling challenges and eco-friendly activities like making soap from used cooking oil. Open to applicants from 6 countries across Europe — teach kids about AI and turn old oil into soap, in the same week.
📋 First time applying? The complete ESC guide walks you through eligibility, costs and how it all works. Read it here →
🇪🇸 Spain — Supporting Inclusion and Leisure for People with Disabilities 🌟
📅 Deadline: 20 September 2026
A unique placement with a social NGO dedicated to people with disabilities and their families: raise awareness, develop inclusive leisure activities and support work inclusion, with weekly Spanish language support. ⚠️ Good knowledge of Spanish required. ⚠️ A sending organisation needed (support available to find one) — meaningful inclusion work, with the language help built in.
🇪🇸 Spain — Supporting People with Intellectual Disabilities and Inclusion ♿
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Support adults with intellectual disabilities and promote social inclusion: accompany participants in daily living and care activities under professional supervision, lead recreational, educational and sports workshops, and join outings and sports events at a leisure club and residential centres. Open to residents of Austria — inclusion work built on patience and genuine connection.
🇪🇸 Spain — Local Engagement & Anti-Discrimination Work in Galician Cambados 🌊
📅 Deadline: 30 October 2026
Add a European dimension to local activities, support youth information sessions and contribute to combating discrimination against women, young people and people with disabilities in a coastal Galician town. Stay in a historic building with a shared kitchen. Open exclusively to Turkish residents — rights work with the Galician coast at the end of the street.
💼 Internships & Traineeships
🇪🇸 Spain — Architecture & 3D Modelling at a Young Design Studio 📐
📅 Deadline: 21 July 2026
Architecture student in your final years or a fresh graduate? An architecture studio in Spain wants you on its young, multidisciplinary team, working in Rhino or SketchUp, AutoCAD and Lumion in a collaborative office where Fridays are mornings only. Basic Spanish required and a portfolio is essential — design future buildings, with your weekends starting Friday lunchtime.
🇪🇸 Spain — Programme Management at the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism (Madrid) 🕊️
📅 Deadline: 21 July 2026
Contribute to global counter-terrorism and the prevention of violent extremism with the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism in Madrid. Support the Vulnerable Targets Programme through research, drafting, events and strategic engagement across the UN system — high-stakes global security work from Madrid.
🇪🇸 Spain — Marketing & Digital Content Experience 💼
📅 Deadline: 25 July 2026
Working on real campaigns, creating content and learning how marketing actually works in Spain. From social media to CRM and campaigns, this experience gives you practical skills you can actually use — your entry point into the digital-marketing world.
🇪🇸 Spain — Animal Welfare & Marketing at a Cat Café 🐱
📅 Deadline: 30 July 2026
Imagine your "office" is full of cats, and your job mixes content creation, customer experience and real animal care. Not your typical internship — the only internship here with purring colleagues.
🇪🇸 Spain — Events Management for International Students 🎉
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
This is where Erasmus life actually happens, and you're the one organising it. Events, people, energy — you're right in the middle of it all — throw the parties a whole city of students remembers.
🇪🇸 Spain — Community Management & Content Creation 📱
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
You're not just posting content, you're building the whole Erasmus experience online. If you like creating, engaging and growing communities, this fits — grow a community from behind the screen.
🇪🇸 Spain — Marketing, Business Development & International Relations at ExpatGlobe 🌍
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Social media, partnership outreach, UN and EU policy tracking. A part-time Erasmus+ internship where marketing meets global affairs, and your work reaches expats around the world — marketing with a genuinely global reach.
🇪🇸 Spain — English-Speaking Language Assistant at a Primary School 🍎
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
A welcoming public primary school in Spain is looking for an English-speaking assistant to help children aged 6 to 12 build their speaking and listening through games, conversations and interactive activities. Free accommodation is provided, and you'll earn a certificate of participation at the end — teach abroad with your rent already covered.
🇪🇸 Spain — Project Management Intern at Traducciones Abroad (Córdoba) 🗂️
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Fluent in Spanish and interested in project management? Traducciones Abroad, a translation agency in Córdoba, is offering a part-time Project Management internship, learning customer service, quoting and coordinating translation projects, with a month of training to start. Unpaid, dates flexible — learn how a language business really runs.
🇪🇸 Spain — Volunteer Coordinator and Project Support at an Eco-Resilience Programme (Gran Canaria) 🌱
📅 Deadline: 31 July 2026
Organise international volunteering projects while living and working on Gran Canaria with the Route 66 Foundation. Coordinate volunteers, welcome new participants, run activities and community events, and support hands-on eco-projects for biodiversity and sustainability — coordinate volunteers with the Atlantic on your doorstep.
🇪🇸 Spain — Human Resources and Event Management Intern at ExpatGlobe 🎪
📅 Deadline: 1 August 2026
Resume screening, interview coordination, event timelines, guest lists. A paid, flexible internship where you choose your track, and the work is actually real — pick HR or events, and own real responsibility.
🇪🇸 Spain — Web Development, Programming and Data Science Intern at ExpatGlobe 💻
📅 Deadline: 5 August 2026
Real code, real data, real projects for your portfolio. A paid, flexible tech internship in Spain: choose your track and start building — ship real code for your CV, in the sun.
🇪🇸 Spain — Graphic Designer and Social Media at an Erasmus Student Association (Bilbao) 🎨
📅 Deadline: 20 August 2026
Design for a buzzing international student community with Happy Erasmus Bilbao. Create graphic content for the website and social media, capture and edit event photography, and join the activities that make Erasmus life in Bilbao unforgettable — build a design portfolio at the centre of student life.
🇪🇸 Spain — Tour Leader for Trips and Excursions at an Erasmus Student Association (Bilbao) 🎉
📅 Deadline: 20 August 2026
Love travel, people and unforgettable memories? Join Happy Erasmus Bilbao as a Tour Leader intern. Plan and run trips and excursions for the international student community across Spain, meet people from all over the world, and improve your English and Spanish — get paid in memories, and see Spain doing it.
🇪🇸 Spain — Creative Marketing for a Holistic Retreat Project (Tenerife) 🌿
📅 Deadline: 30 August 2026
Casa el Riego in Tenerife is hiring an experienced Erasmus+ intern for content creation, social media and retreat outreach in a holistic, purpose-driven project on the Canary Islands — marketing with meaning, on a volcanic island.
🇪🇸 Spain — Retreat Experience & Community at a Women's Wellbeing Retreat 🧘
📅 Deadline: 1 September 2026
Love yoga, plant-based living and creating meaningful experiences for others? Step into the daily life of a women's wellbeing retreat in Spain: planning retreats, welcoming guests, supporting plant-based meals and helping run signature retreats and monthly community events. Accommodation, food during retreats and free use of a car all included — a conscious-living role with a car thrown in.
🇪🇸 Spain — Communication and Marketing at a University Global Affairs Office (Barcelona) 📣
📅 Deadline: 6 September 2026
Shape how a dynamic Barcelona university tells its international story with Vitae's Office of Global Affairs. Create content and campaigns for social media, newsletters and events, build a visual identity, and promote international mobility and global partnerships — a comms portfolio built in Barcelona.
🇪🇸 Spain — Italian & English Language Assistant (Lleida) 🗣️
📅 Deadline: 18 September 2026
Institut Torre Vicens in Lleida (Catalonia) is hiring an Erasmus+ trainee to assist with Italian and English teaching for secondary students. Accommodation support, certification, and a welcoming international environment. Perfect for future language teachers — teaching practice with accommodation support included.
🇪🇸 Spain — Italian / English Language Assistant at a School (Erasmus+ grant) 🗣️
📅 Deadline: 18 September 2026
Institut Torre Vicens is welcoming Italian and/or English language assistants for an Erasmus+ traineeship: no teaching experience needed, just enthusiasm and great language skills — your first taste of teaching, grant-supported.
🇪🇸 Spain — English Language Assistant at a Catalan Secondary School 🍎
📅 Deadline: 20 September 2026
Help teenagers gain confidence in English while living authentic Catalan life near Barcelona. Support English lessons and conversation activities with students aged 12 to 18, join intercultural projects, and experience daily life in a Catalan secondary school — real Catalan life, not a tourist's version.
🇪🇸 Spain — Social Media and Content Creator at an International Students Association 🎬
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Live and breathe Instagram, TikTok and reels? Create content for a vibrant Erasmus community with IYES in Spain. Manage social profiles, produce posts, stories and reels, capture student life and events, and grow the online presence of an international student network — turn student life into content that grows a whole network.
🎓 Erasmus+ Opportunities
🇪🇸 Spain — Wilderness Skills and Mountain Safety (Training Course) 🔥
📅 Deadline: 20 July 2026
Become a real explorer for five days in a Spanish native forest, learning everything from basic orientation to building a stretcher from sticks, creating your own plant roof and making fire. Through hands-on "learning by doing" with an adventure travel guide, a helicopter rescue doctor and an experimental archaeology specialist, master basic orientation in nature, practical responses to mountain emergencies, wilderness first aid, bushcraft and good practices for caring for nature. Open to applicants from 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇬🇷 🇹🇷 and 3 more — skills you hope you never need, taught by people who use them for real.
🇪🇸 Spain — Sport as a Tool for Social Inclusion and Gender Equality (Training Course) ⚽
📅 Deadline: 22 July 2026
A practical training for young sports educators and youth organisations who want to use sport as a tool for social inclusion and youth empowerment, with hands-on inclusive sports methods, gender-equity tools and visits to local socio-sports projects. ⚠️ Project not yet officially approved (Quality Label pending); confirmation to follow — sport as a lever for equality, once confirmed.
As the team steps onto the pitch tonight, here are 50 of your own openings across the same country to chase off it. Fully funded ESC placements in Waldorf kindergartens, autism-support projects, wetland conservation and disability care; internships from a Madrid UN counter-terrorism office and a Barcelona university comms team to a cat café and a Tenerife retreat; and two Erasmus+ trainings in wilderness survival and inclusive sport. Most cluster around 31 July, with the calendar running on to late October. Whether your Spain looks like a village classroom, a Gran Canaria eco-project or a Bilbao events crew, the way in is open right now. Pick yours.
¡Vamos España! — and good luck to anyone ready to make their own move to Spain.
