Last Chance, 8 to 9 August: 28 Fully Funded and Paid Opportunities Closing Now 🚨

There is barely any time left on these. Right now there are 28 opportunities open across 16 countries, and every one of them closes on 8 or 9 August 2026: fully funded ESC volunteering from fashion and knitting for women's empowerment in Kampala and slow living with a L'Arche community in Vilnius to cave exploration in the Croatian mountains, paid internships in France, Italy and Belgium, three Erasmus+ courses, and a youth project contest with up to 5,000 euro in prizes. From Uganda and Georgia to Serbia, Moldova and the Alps, this is a wide, worldwide set of last-chance openings. If any of them has been on your mind, apply now.

The funding picture is mixed, so here is the honest version. The 17 ESC placements are fully funded: travel, accommodation, food, insurance and a monthly pocket money allowance are covered, with a distance band on the far-flung ones in Uganda and Georgia. Among the internships, France pays 900 euro a month plus meals and transport, the Italy tourism role is paid, several others carry an Erasmus+ traineeship grant, and Belgium has a salaried Communications Officer job. The three Erasmus+ courses cover travel and stay, and the Alpine contest offers prize money rather than a placement. The one thing they all share is the clock: applications close on 8 or 9 August 2026.

In This Batch

ESC Volunteering

1. 🇸🇮 Slovenia — solidarity, harvests and heritage in Primorska · 📅 08 Aug
2. 🇩🇪 Germany — after-school care and a multigenerational centre · 📅 08 Aug
3. 🇷🇸 Serbia — teach French through art and play, Novi Sad · 📅 09 Aug
4. 🇪🇸 Spain — behind the scenes at a historical festival · 📅 09 Aug
5. 🇬🇪 Georgia — creativity, community and festival · 📅 09 Aug
6. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria — empowering youth through non-formal education · 📅 09 Aug
7. 🇮🇹 Italy — living and working inside an eco-museum · 📅 09 Aug
8. 🇸🇮 Slovenia — empowering young people through sport · 📅 09 Aug
9. 🇮🇹 Italy — hostel management and educational support · 📅 09 Aug
10. 🇵🇱 Poland — creative and cultural teamwork at an art gallery · 📅 09 Aug
11. 🇷🇸 Serbia — career mentoring and skills for young people · 📅 09 Aug
12. 🇷🇸 Serbia — monitoring and learning for humanitarian projects · 📅 09 Aug
13. 🇺🇬 Uganda — fashion, design and knitting for women's empowerment · 📅 09 Aug
14. 🇭🇺 Hungary — German-speaking kindergarten · 📅 09 Aug
15. 🇭🇷 Croatia — nature and caves in the mountains · 📅 09 Aug
16. 🇮🇹 Italy — renovating a farmhouse for inclusion · 📅 09 Aug
17. 🇱🇹 Lithuania — slow living with a L'Arche community · 📅 09 Aug

Internships & Jobs

18. 🇩🇪 Germany — administrative management, Hamburg · 📅 08 Aug

19. 🇱🇹 Lithuania — online office assistant · 📅 08 Aug

20. 🇫🇷 France — digital front office in hospitality, paid · 📅 08 Aug

21. 🇸🇮 Slovenia — events and communication at Erasmus Ljubljana · 📅 08 Aug

22. 🇮🇹 Italy — customer service and sales in tourism, paid · 📅 08 Aug

23. 🇧🇪 Belgium — donor engagement at the International Rescue Committee · 📅 09 Aug

24. 🇧🇪 Belgium — Communications Officer job at the CCBE · 📅 09 Aug

Erasmus+

25. 🇫🇮 Finland — youth work and preventing radicalisation · 📅 09 Aug

26. 🇫🇮 Finland — volunteering teams for inclusion (partnership-building) · 📅 09 Aug

27. 🇲🇩 Moldova — diversity and youth work in a changing Europe · 📅 09 Aug

Competitions

28. 🇪🇺 Alpine Region — EUSALP youth project contest, up to 5,000 euro · 📅 08 Aug

What's in this batch:

17 ESC Volunteering Placements · 5 Internships · 2 Jobs · 3 Erasmus+ Courses · 1 Competition · 16 Countries · All Closing 8 to 9 August 2026

🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities

1. 🇸🇮 ESC Volunteering in Slovenia 🌾 Solidarity in Primorska, Harvests, Renovation and Heritage Preservation 🌿

📅 Deadline: 8 August 2026

Help with harvests and renovation work, support local Red Cross and associations, preserve natural and cultural heritage, and run educational workshops for children and elderly. Shared volunteer house, manual work and rural community life. Open exclusively to French residents. Apply here →

2. 🇩🇪 ESC Volunteering in Germany 🎨 After School Care and a Multigenerational Centre 🧒

📅 Deadline: 8 August 2026

Support an after-school care programme at a primary school with children aged 6 to 10, in a small, well-connected town in Bavaria. You help with homework and organise meaningful leisure activities, with plenty of room for creativity. You are also active in a multigenerational centre, where you can offer your own courses like cooking, language or sports. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇦 and 18 more. Apply here →

3. 🇷🇸 ESC Volunteering in Serbia 🎨 Teach French Through Art, Music and Play in Novi Sad 🎭

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

A bilingual French-Serbian kindergarten, creative workshops, theatre, dance and the joy of helping children fall in love with a language through play. If you are a French speaker who believes learning happens best through art and games, Centre Jules Verne is calling. Apply here →

4. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🎭 Behind the Scenes at a Historical Re-enactment Festival 🏕️

📅 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. Apply here →

5. 🇬🇪 ESC Volunteering in Georgia 🎨 Creativity Community and Festival 🎶

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Be part of a community festival in rural Georgia at a youth and community centre working with children, young people and families. Join the daily life of the centre and support the festival in early October, from preparations, decorations and artistic workshops to food service, activities and clean-up. Co-facilitate musical and educational activities, help local youth prepare a performance, assist with English activities, document local cultural heritage, and bring your own ideas to life with the team's support. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇹🇷 🇬🇪 and 30 more. Apply here →

6. 🇧🇬 ESC Volunteering in Bulgaria ✊ Empowering Youth through Non Formal Education 🌍

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Contribute to building a more inclusive and supportive community. Through non-formal education activities, awareness campaigns, community outreach and youth initiatives, you promote social inclusion, equality, active citizenship and the prevention of violence and discrimination. Working with staff and local volunteers, you support workshops in schools and community centres, organise events, create educational and digital materials, and encourage young people with fewer opportunities to take an active part in society. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇫🇮 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 🇷🇴 and 15 more. Apply here →

7. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🏘️ Living and Working Inside an Eco Museum 🌿

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Live inside a living eco-museum, where every house, street and garden is part of a collective story of memory and sustainability. Working with a tutor and the team, you help coordinate the booking, reception and assistance for visitors joining the museum's experiential itineraries, manage the logistics of immersive activities and stays in the earthen houses, and keep the shared spaces cared for so the visitor experience stays high quality. You will not replace qualified staff but enrich and expand the activities with your own ideas and skills, actively co-designing as part of a real community. Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇭🇷 🇱🇻 🇵🇹 and 11 more. Apply here →

8. 🇸🇮 ESC Volunteering in Slovenia ⚽ Empowering Young People Through Sport 🏃

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Join a Slovenian youth, sport and tourism institute as a long-term volunteer who is disciplined, friendly and ready to motivate young people to live more healthily and stay active. You help youngsters with sports activities and also support the local football association, planning and organising football trainings. A great fit for someone motivated, active, kind and reliable, who enjoys working alone or in a team and cooperating with local young people. Open to residents of Spain. Apply here →

9. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🏛️ Hostel Management and Educational Support 🎒

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Join a social cooperative promoting sustainable tourism through a hostel in the historical town of Crotone in southern Italy. In summer you help manage the hostel, from reception and administration to cleaning rooms and spaces, supporting local trips for youth, assisting the municipality's tourist infopoint, and handling website and social media communication. In autumn and winter you continue at the hostel and also assist in a local school and in educational meetings and trips with young people. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇭🇷 and 15 more. Apply here →

10. 🇵🇱 ESC Volunteering in Poland 🎨 Creative and Cultural Teamwork at an Art Gallery 🖼️

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Join a two-month international project at an art gallery in a charming town in south-east Poland, with six volunteers from different countries. Together you work on creative, cultural, promotional and organisational tasks, gaining hands-on experience in teamwork, communication, event organisation and intercultural cooperation. Especially aimed at young people with fewer opportunities and no previous international experience. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇭🇷 and 20 more. Apply here →

11. 🇷🇸 ESC Volunteering in Serbia 🎯 Career Mentoring and Skills for Young People 💼

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Help young people from vulnerable communities in southern Serbia build the skills and confidence for their future. You provide basic career mentoring, help with CVs, job or school applications and interview prep, map local education, training and employment opportunities, and lead informal workshops on career orientation and soft skills. No counselling background needed, just enthusiasm and patience. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇹🇷 🇷🇴 and 26 more. Apply here →

12. 🇷🇸 ESC Volunteering in Serbia 📊 Monitoring and Learning for Humanitarian Projects 🤝

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Help make humanitarian projects more effective and community-focused in southern Serbia. As a MEAL assistant you support data collection through surveys, interviews and community feedback, track project indicators, help organise evaluations and learning sessions, and document what works so programmes keep improving. You do not need to be an expert, just organised, curious and keen to learn. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇹🇷 🇷🇴 and 26 more. Apply here →

13. 🇺🇬 ESC Volunteering in Uganda 🧵 Fashion, Design and Knitting for Women's Empowerment 💜

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Help disadvantaged girls and women in a Kampala slum community gain income-generating skills. You teach fashion design and knitting, develop new products for local market demand, market the youth-centre products locally and internationally, organise exhibitions and exposure visits, deliver basic financial-literacy training, and build a quality-control system. Real, hands-on work toward women's self-sufficiency. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇹🇷 🇷🇴 and 26 more. Apply here →

14. 🇭🇺 ESC Volunteering in Hungary 🧒 German-Speaking Kindergarten Fun 🎨

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Bring intercultural colour to a kindergarten in southern Hungary. In the Blue Elephant Kindergarten's German-focused group in Pécs you support teachers, play, sing, paint and do crafts with the children, put on little plays and help run seasonal celebrations and open days. A warm, playful placement where kids learn openness naturally. Open to applicants from 🇭🇺 🇦🇹 🇩🇪 Apply here →

15. 🇭🇷 ESC Volunteering in Croatia 🌲 Nature and Caves in the Mountains ⛰️

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Discover Lika, one of Croatia's wildest, most biodiverse regions. At Grabovača Cave Park you explore caves, help build new trails, run a language school for local kids, support park work and events, and learn speleology, botany and sustainable development while spreading "think globally, act locally". Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 and 23 more. Apply here →

16. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🌿 Renovating a Farmhouse for Inclusion 🔨

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Roll up your sleeves and bring a countryside farmhouse back to life. At Cascina EUtopia in Piedmont, 17 volunteers spend 38 days on hands-on renovation, green maintenance, upcycling workshops and community life, turning the place into a safe, inclusive space for vulnerable young people. For those who love manual work and nature. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 and 11 more. Apply here →

17. 🇱🇹 ESC Volunteering in Lithuania 🕊️ Slow Living with L'Arche Community 💙

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Slow down and connect at the L'Arche community in Vilnius. You spend your time assisting people with intellectual disabilities in an independent-living house, sharing everyday life and enjoying the process rather than chasing results. A gentle, deeply human year for anyone who values presence and genuine connection. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 and 9 more. Apply here →

💼 Internships & Jobs

18. 🇩🇪 Erasmus+ Internship in Germany 🗂️ Administrative Management and Office Operations at Afro Alamuta 🤝

📅 Deadline: 8 August 2026

Office operations, budgets, events, and communications, all under one roof in Hamburg. A solid administrative internship for students who want to build real organisational skills in a professional environment. Apply here →

19. 🇱🇹 Internship in Lithuania 🗂️ Online Office Assistant Supporting Documents and Social Media 💻 (Erasmus+ Internship)

📅 Deadline: 8 August 2026

Six hours a day, five days a week, and the rest of the time is yours to actually see Lithuania. Answering partner and client emails, preparing official documents and reports, building posters and presentations, and running Instagram, Facebook and blog content, with most tasks carried out online and part-time remote work possible. Apply here →

20. 🇫🇷 Internship in France 🛎️ Digital Front Office and Guest Experience in Hospitality 🌍 (€900/month, Erasmus+ Internship)

📅 Deadline: 8 August 2026

Want to build a career in hospitality? A paid Digital Front Office and Guest Experience internship in France: welcoming international guests, running check-ins and daily operations, and managing online reputation, all with 900 euro a month, meal vouchers and transport covered. Open to applicants eligible for an Erasmus+ Traineeship, English required. Apply here →

21. 🇸🇮 Internship in Slovenia 🎉 Events and Communication at Erasmus Ljubljana 📣 (Erasmus+ Internship)

📅 Deadline: 8 August 2026

Love organising unforgettable nights? Join Erasmus Ljubljana's Events and Communication Team, planning weekly events, parties and trips, promoting them online and making the Erasmus experience legendary for international students. Open to applicants eligible for an Erasmus+ Traineeship, fluent in English. Apply here →

22. 🇮🇹 Internship in Italy 🎫 Customer Service and Sales in the Tourism Industry 🌍 (Paid, Erasmus+ Internship)

📅 Deadline: 8 August 2026

Love travel and making people's trips unforgettable? A paid internship in Italy supporting customer service and sales in the tourism industry, helping international visitors with bookings, recommendations and a great experience. Open to applicants eligible for an Erasmus+ Traineeship, fluent in English. Apply here →

23. 🇧🇪 Internship in Belgium 🤝 Donor Engagement with EU Institutions at the International Rescue Committee 💶

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

The funding that reaches people in the world's worst crises starts with relationships in Brussels, and this internship helps manage them. Research and background analysis, briefings for institutional donor meetings, minute-taking in donor discussions, preparing external events like the European Humanitarian Forum, and keeping the donor CRM current across DG INTPA, DG MENA and DG ECHO. Apply here →

24. 🇧🇪 Communications Officer Job in Belgium ⚖️ Strategic Communication at the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe 📣

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

The body representing Europe's bars and law societies defends the rule of law, and it needs that work to be heard. Driving external and member communication, shaping messaging towards the EU institutions, building relationships with journalists, organising high-level events, and supporting the Secretary-General and Presidency on international engagements. Apply here →

🎓 Erasmus+ Opportunities

25. 🇫🇮 Erasmus+ Training Course in Finland 🧠 Youth Work and Preventing Radicalisation 🕊️

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Have you met young people whose views left you uncertain how to respond? This training invites youth workers to explore how radicalisation develops, how beliefs and narratives shape young people's attitudes, and how youth work can play a meaningful role in prevention and response. Through a step-by-step journey, experiential learning and innovative methods like an educational escape room, strengthen your skills in communication, dialogue facilitation and resilience-building. Apply here →

26. 🇫🇮 Erasmus+ Partnership-building Activity in Finland 🤝 Volunteering Teams as a Tool for Inclusion 🌍

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

Explore European Solidarity Corps volunteering teams in a broader international context and build the partnerships to run them. This partnership-building activity helps you deepen your knowledge of the volunteering team format and its inclusive potential, get inspired by good practices, and network with organisations from across Europe and beyond to establish partnerships for high-quality team activities. It runs in three parts: a preparation task, an online meeting and the residential meeting at a Finnish youth centre. Apply here →

27. 🇲🇩 Erasmus+ Training Course in Moldova 🌍 Diversity and Youth Work in a Changing Europe 🕊️

📅 Deadline: 9 August 2026

EUtopia? invites youth workers and youth leaders to reflect on how youth work can respond to a rapidly changing Europe, where questions of identity, belonging, diversity and participation are more central than ever. You analyse political and social developments affecting young people, explore the impact of EU enlargement and geopolitical change, deepen your understanding of diversity as a democratic value, and strengthen competences to address discrimination, radicalisation and hate speech, with Chișinău offering a candidate-country perspective. Open to applicants from 🇲🇩 🇹🇷 🇵🇹 🇷🇸 🇺🇦 and 36 more. Apply here →

🏆 Competitions

28. 🇪🇺 Youth Project Contest for the Alpine Region 🏔️ Pitch Your Idea for a Sustainable Future with EUSALP 💡 (Win up to €5,000)

📅 Deadline: 8 August 2026

Young people of the Alps: got an idea to make your region more sustainable, digital and future-ready? Pitch it to EUSALP. The top 5 present at an international forum, and the three best win prize money plus expert mentorship to make it happen. Apply here →

From women's empowerment through fashion in Kampala and a L'Arche community in Vilnius to cave exploration in Croatia, a paid hospitality role in France, a Communications Officer job in Brussels and a 5,000 euro Alpine idea contest, this is one of the widest last-chance line ups we have posted. Seventeen fully funded ESC placements, seven internships and jobs, three Erasmus+ courses and one competition, all closing on 8 or 9 August. If one of them fits, do not wait: check your eligibility, open the link and apply before the window shuts.