Fifteen fully funded European Solidarity Corps placements are open right now across 11 countries, and they reach from a Riga youth team to a Ugandan ICT centre. You could be learning international sign language to work alongside the Deaf community in Latvia, closing the digital skills gap at community centres in western Kenya, strengthening a Ghanaian organisation's monitoring and evaluation systems, supporting young Ukrainian refugees in Romania, running eco awareness at a youth residence in central France, or caring for children in a rural Upper Lusatian kindergarten in Germany. From an Italian mountain hostel to a trilingual youth club in Estonia, this is one of the most varied sets of placements we have gathered in a single post.
Every one of these fifteen placements is a European Solidarity Corps opportunity, which means the funding is real: travel within the usual distance bands, accommodation, food, local transport, insurance, pocket money, a mentor and language support are all covered, for volunteers aged 18 to 30. Three placements are limited to residents of a specific country, and one Ghana role asks for prior monitoring and evaluation experience, so those are flagged below. The deadlines run from 26 July to 15 September 2026.
What's in this batch:
15 Fully Funded ESC Volunteering Placements · 11 Countries · Deadlines from 26 July to 15 September 2026
🩷 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
🇮🇹 Italy: Environmental Education at a Mountain Hostel 🌳
📅 Deadline: 26 July 2026
A mountain hostel in a nature park is looking for two volunteers to join its environmental education work. Your tasks span hostel maintenance indoors and out, guest check in and administrative work, room preparation and cleaning, recycling and upcycling materials for hostel use and decoration, and giving guests information on hiking paths and the local area. You also assist workshops for primary school students, design and run your own didactic workshops on art, environmental education and creative recycling, and support communication and social media. Hands on sustainable living surrounded by nature. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇫🇷 🇭🇷 and 21 more. Sustainable living, learned at altitude.
🇩🇪 Germany: Open Youth Centre Work in Giesen ⚽
📅 Deadline: 30 July 2026
Help create a space for young people, open to all children and teenagers aged 9 to 27, at a youth centre run on the principle of open child and youth work. The centre offers a rich programme during school holidays, with the annual summer camp as a real highlight, and is a daily point of reference for children and young people from the municipality and nearby villages. The football field draws young people in any weather. A key part of the work is contact with local youth, so they are looking for someone brave, open and welcoming. ⚠️ Open to residents of Italy. A whole town's young people, and one football field.
🇬🇭 Ghana: Monitoring and Evaluation for a Community Organisation 📊
📅 Deadline: 5 August 2026
A community organisation in northern Ghana needs a skilled, proactive volunteer to strengthen its monitoring and evaluation systems. This one is for someone with prior M&E experience: you will review existing tools and practices, spot the gaps, and help build more structured, reliable systems. You will improve data collection, reporting and evaluation, develop practical indicators and templates, support teams in weaving M&E into their work, analyse and visualise field data, contribute to donor reporting, and train staff. ⚠️ Prior monitoring and evaluation experience required. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇹🇷 🇪🇸 and 26 more. A specialist role with genuine impact.
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🇱🇻 Latvia: Inclusive Youth Work with the Deaf Community 🤝
📅 Deadline: 7 August 2026
Join a team in the heart of Riga for a one year project building a more inclusive society through youth work. You will support youth activities, organise events, contribute to social media campaigns, and promote EU opportunities among local communities, all in a creative, inclusive environment with real space for your own ideas. You will even learn Latvian and the basics of international sign language so you can communicate with the Deaf community you work alongside. A dynamic team where your voice and initiative genuinely matter. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇬🇱 🇫🇷 and 30 more. Learn a whole new way to communicate.
🇪🇪 Estonia: Youth and Cultural Centre Work in a Rural Municipality 🌾
📅 Deadline: 10 August 2026
Join a municipal youth centre coordinating youth activities across several small towns and working closely with local schools. Your days include running an Italian language and culture club at the local school, spending time with young people at the youth house after school, writing a twice monthly column about ESC and volunteer life for the local youth portal, and leading youth and cultural activities at nearby clubs. The centre's guiding idea is to support and encourage young people to develop their own initiative rather than do everything for them. ⚠️ Open to residents of Italy. Small towns, and space to build your own thing.
🇰🇪 Kenya: Digital Skills Trainer for Youth and Communities 💻
📅 Deadline: 10 August 2026
Help close a critical digital skills gap at community resource centres in western Kenya, hubs offering ICT training, climate smart agriculture and early childhood education. You will teach essential digital tools and online safety basics, create simple social media content, and explain digital skills clearly and patiently to learners of all ages, especially youth and vulnerable children. By boosting digital literacy you help unlock new educational and career opportunities in a region facing growing climate challenges, serving as an inspiring, hands on role model. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇹🇷 🇬🇷 and 26 more. Teach the skills that open every other door.
🇺🇬 Uganda: Digital Empowerment and ICT Training 💻
📅 Deadline: 10 August 2026
Play a key role in building digital skills across a Ugandan organisation and its local partners. You will deliver targeted trainings on digital skills, communication and marketing strategies for social media, manage and upgrade the organisation's digital platforms to boost online engagement, and run ICT training sessions for staff and partner organisations like schools and community groups. Part of a project on resilience, innovation and gender equality, especially empowering women, it is a hands on chance to foster sustainable digital development in the community. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇹🇷 🇷🇴 and 26 more. Digital skills, with women's empowerment at the centre.
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🇫🇷 France: European Ambassador for Eco Awareness at a Youth Residence ♻️
📅 Deadline: 12 August 2026
Work with young people at a youth residence in central France, bringing a European dimension and intercultural opening up to the organisation's actions. Your main role is to raise local young people's awareness of European countries and, especially, of environmental issues and eco friendly practices. Along the way you develop into a facilitator for European projects and international workcamps, and even co lead a group of international volunteers. A good fit for anyone who cares about the environment and enjoys working with youngsters and an animation team. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇱🇻 🇺🇦 and 24 more. Grow from volunteer to project facilitator.
🇵🇹 Portugal: Solidarity and Environmental Sustainability with People and Planet 🌍
📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026
A transnational project promoting solidarity, community and sustainable development, bringing together four volunteers for a genuinely varied experience. You will run educational and global citizenship activities with youth and children, put upcycling, restoration and recycling into practice in the atelier alongside local people, support forest preservation and tree planting in the mountains, join activities with elderly people, kindergartens and schools, help at a street animals shelter, and pitch in on logistics like food collection campaigns and sorting clothes. A little bit of everything, all rooted in people and planet. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇹🇷 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 and 11 more. One placement, a dozen kinds of good.
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🇮🇹 Italy: Community Life with People with Disabilities and Families 💛
📅 Deadline: 19 August 2026
Become part of welcoming communities supporting adults with disabilities, mothers and children, while living Italian culture and community life up close. Across the project you contribute to daily activities, promote inclusion and participation, develop your own initiatives and grow both personally and professionally. Continuous support comes with it: on arrival, mid term and final reflection, regular meetings with a tutor and mentor, an Italian language course and internal training. A rural, shared living experience for anyone drawn to solidarity and social inclusion. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇫🇮 🇮🇪 🇱🇻 🇵🇹 and 20 more. Shared living, in the best sense of the words.
🇵🇱 Poland: Non Formal Education at a Primary School 🎒
📅 Deadline: 20 August 2026
Step into the busy life of a primary school in one of Poland's oldest and most beautiful cities. Your weeks fill up across a real spread of activities: a volunteering club, a Young European club, the after lessons community room, a music club, bilingual English classes run in cooperation with a university and an Irish culture foundation, eTwinning projects with schools abroad, the students' council and a Dalton class. The school team backs you up throughout, and come summer you co lead a short term volunteering project. Patience, creativity and a bit of team spirit carry you here. Open to applicants from 🇦🇲 🇭🇷 🇱🇻 🇲🇪 🇹🇷 and 29 more. A school with more clubs than you can count.
🇩🇪 Germany: Kindergarten Life in the Upper Lusatian Countryside 🐣
📅 Deadline: 21 August 2026
Set in a nature rich rural region of fields and forests, this kindergarten cares for children in its nursery, kindergarten and after school sections. You support the educational team in everyday activities, from meal times to creative, musical, physical and nature based sessions, with room to develop your own projects and bring your language, culture and skills into the centre. A mentor on staff helps you find your feet and answers whatever comes up. A gentle, grounded placement for anyone who loves working with children and village life. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇬🇱 🇮🇪 🇱🇻 🇵🇹 and 27 more. Small children, big forests, gentle days.
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🇪🇪 Estonia: Youth Club and Creative Cultures with Minority Youth 🎭
📅 Deadline: 25 August 2026
Join a mobile youth organisation working mainly in the capital, with occasional trips to a nearby village. Aimed at young people aged eleven and up, its activities span youth cultures like theatre, music, dance and art, workshops and recreational activities from flash mobs and forum theatre to juggling and games, plus media, communication and intercultural learning through international projects. You will learn and grow working directly with children and teenagers, in close contact with the local ethnic minority community and a real chance to make an impact. The centre is trilingual: Estonian, Russian and English. ⚠️ Open to residents of Italy. Circus, theatre and real cultural bridge building.
🇫🇷 France: Activities and Support at a High School 🏫
📅 Deadline: 26 August 2026
Get integrated into the teaching teams and school life service of a high school for students aged 15 to 20, in a seaside city in Brittany. Shaped around your own interests, you might propose workshops on health or sustainable development, run cultural, artistic and sporting activities, lead linguistic animation, help students in difficulty according to your skills, and get involved in the school's educational projects from cultural trips to solidarity work. You will also organise collective projects with the volunteer at a nearby high school and join a group project with the other volunteers hosted in the city. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇱🇻 🇭🇷 and 18 more. Coastal Brittany, and a timetable you help design.
🇷🇴 Romania: Supporting Young Ukrainian Refugees 🤝
📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026
Join a project supporting young Ukrainian refugees through structured volunteering, education and community engagement. Grounded in solidarity priorities, it works on social inclusion, cultural exchange and economic empowerment while strengthening community resilience and youth led civic action, directly tackling language barriers, social isolation and skill gaps. Through non formal education, mentoring and intercultural experiences you help create real learning opportunities that boost employability and long term integration. A great fit if you like writing or storytelling, have basic design or digital skills, and enjoy working in a diverse team. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇺🇦 🇲🇩 and 34 more. Meet a crisis with patience and real support.
Fifteen placements, eleven countries, one shared promise: your travel, housing, food, insurance and pocket money are covered, so all you bring is yourself. Their characters pull in every direction. A strong digital thread runs through Africa, from ICT training in Uganda and digital skills in Kenya to monitoring and evaluation in Ghana. Education anchors much of Europe, across a Polish primary school, two German placements from an open youth centre to a countryside kindergarten, and two French schools. And inclusion sits at the heart of the rest, from learning sign language with the Deaf community in Riga and supporting adults with disabilities in Italy to standing beside young Ukrainian refugees in Romania. Three placements are limited to residents of a specific country and one Ghana role needs prior M&E experience, so check those first. The deadlines run from 26 July to 15 September 2026. Find the one that sounds like your next year, and get your application in while the place is still there.
