Closing 15 August: 43 Fully Funded ESC Placements Across 15 Countries 🌍

Fully funded ESC volunteering closing 15 August: 43 European Solidarity Corps placements across 15 countries are in their final days, and this is one of the biggest single-deadline rounds we have ever gathered. Every one is fully funded, and the spread is enormous. You could be supporting international cooperation projects in Colombia, building off-grid eco-houses on a Greek island, running a national portrait gallery's social media in Hungary, learning multimedia from people who have worked on Eurovision and MasterChef in Slovenia, or joining any of eleven placements in Czechia caring for elderly people, children and adults with disabilities. There is a huge cluster of social-care and youth work, a strong run of creative and content-creation roles, several environmental and sustainability placements, and a whole set in the Italian city of Genoa working with children and unaccompanied minors. If you have been telling yourself you will volunteer abroad "one day", 15 August is the day the door closes on these particular 43.

The range means there is almost certainly a fit for you, whatever your background. Drawn to care work? There are placements with seniors, people with disabilities, refugees, women survivors of violence and vulnerable children. Creative? There are media, video, photography and social-media roles. Environmentally minded? There is organic gardening in Spain, ecological-transition communication in Luxembourg, off-grid building in Greece and rural heritage work in Romania. Some placements last just a few weeks, like the 25-day eco-building team in Greece or six weeks in Beja, Portugal; others run ten to twelve months. Most are open to applicants from across Europe and its neighbours, though a handful are reserved for residents of a specific country, so the eligibility line on each one decides whether you can apply.

Here is what fully funded means across all of them. Your travel is reimbursed up to a distance-based grant, and your accommodation, food, local transport, insurance, language support and a mentor are all provided, with monthly pocket money set by the host country. You are not paying to volunteer. To take part you generally need to be aged 18 to 30 (18 to 35 for Humanitarian Aid placements), legally resident in an eligible country, and registered on the ESC Portal. If any of that is new to you, read our full walkthrough of how ESC volunteering and its funding work at youthworkshub.org/escbefore you apply. But do not read for long, because every placement below shares the same hard deadline: 15 August 2026.

In This Batch

1. 🇹🇷 Türkiye, BEKAM — media, sports, arts and humanitarian aid
2. 🇹🇷 Türkiye, Şehitkamil — media, sports and humanitarian work at Bulbulzade
3. 🇨🇿 Czechia — creative therapy workshops with adults with disabilities
4. 🇨🇿 Czechia — supporting seniors at an elderly care home
5. 🇨🇿 Czechia — afternoon club for marginalised children and youth
6. 🇨🇿 Czechia — skills workshops with adults with disabilities
7. 🇨🇿 Czechia — daily support at a centre for adults with disabilities
8. 🇨🇿 Czechia — supporting elderly people with memory disorders
9. 🇨🇿 Czechia — day care and therapy for people with disabilities
10. 🇮🇪 Ireland — children and youth services at a community centre
11. 🇮🇪 Ireland, Dublin — youth and community work
12. 🇪🇸 Spain — sustainable development and organic gardening
13. 🇱🇺 Luxembourg — communication for ecological transition
14. 🇦🇹 Austria, Tyrol — life in an inclusive community
15. 🇷🇴 Romania — documenting rural life and heritage
16. 🇷🇴 Romania — youth centres and environmental education
17. 🇭🇺 Hungary — social media officer at a national portrait gallery
18. 🇪🇸 Spain — democratic participation and wellbeing in a school community
19. 🇬🇷 Greece — supporting a youth centre and its ESC community
20. 🇵🇹 Portugal — solidarity and environmental sustainability
21. 🇫🇷 France — youth support at a community social centre
22. 🇨🇴 Colombia — supporting international cooperation projects
23. 🇵🇱 Poland — long-term community work with youth or seniors
24. 🇬🇷 Greece, Evia — off-grid eco-building in a sustainable community
25. 🇵🇹 Portugal, Beja — European Youth Goals and active citizenship
26. 🇫🇷 France, Bischwiller — bringing joy to elderly residents
27. 🇪🇸 Spain, Bilbao — empowering women and migrants
28. 🇹🇷 Türkiye, Sorgun — content creation and community volunteering
29. 🇪🇸 Spain, Bilbao — promoting volunteering among youth
30. 🇪🇸 Spain, Bilbao — participation and European values
31. 🇫🇷 France, Strasbourg — toddler support in a preschool
32. 🇸🇮 Slovenia, Medvode — multimedia and video production
33. 🇮🇹 Italy, Genoa — supporting unaccompanied foreign minors
34. 🇮🇹 Italy, Genoa — supporting children in educational centres
35. 🇮🇹 Italy, Genoa — working with teens and children
36. 🇮🇹 Italy, Genoa — after-school and sports with kids
37. 🇹🇷 Türkiye, Yozgat — building disaster-ready communities
38. 🇨🇿 Czechia, Ostrava — supporting elderly people with memory disorders
39. 🇹🇷 Türkiye, Yozgat — 30-day team volunteering on disaster preparedness
40. 🇨🇿 Czechia, Karviná — afternoon club for children from the street
41. 🇹🇷 Türkiye, Yozgat — youth work, culture and community
42. 🇨🇿 Czechia, Český Těšín — supporting adults with mental disabilities at EDEN
43. 🇨🇿 Czechia, Český Těšín — crafts and skills with adults with disabilities at EBEN EZER

43 Fully Funded ESC Placements · 15 Countries · All Closing 15 August 2026

🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities

1. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 📺 Youth Bridge, Media, Sports, Arts & Humanitarian Aid at BEKAM 🎬

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

A wide-open project: work with local students, dive into a professional TV studio and radio stations, train in content creation and video editing, take art classes in guitar, piano, violin or bağlama, or join humanitarian aid distribution and psychosocial support for refugees and earthquake-affected communities. Gym, swimming pool and forest activities too. Apply here →

2. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 📺 Together We're Better at Bulbulzade 🌍

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Join Bulbulzade Foundation in Şehitkamil for media production, TV and radio broadcasting, sports, arts, humanitarian aid and environmental work. Shared rooms, three meals daily, visa covered, airport transfers and Henner insurance included. A multi-skill Turkish experience. Apply here →

3. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 🎨 Creative Therapy Workshops with Adults with Disabilities 🏺

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Support a socio-therapeutic centre helping adults with mental or combined disabilities build and keep work habits. Assist clients in pottery, basketry and creative workshops, learn techniques from clay work and jewellery making to canvas painting and marbling, join music and art therapy sessions, and practise social skills while sharing your own culture. Open to applicants from 35 countries across Europe. Apply here →

4. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 👵 Supporting Seniors at an Elderly Care Home 💛

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Support a home for older people where residents live with dignity and as much independence as possible. Help seniors through their daily routine, from morning programmes to afternoon activities, and join activation sessions, gentle physical and breathing exercises, and memory and music activities that brighten their days. Open to applicants from 29 countries across Europe. Apply here →

5. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 🎨 Afternoon Club for Marginalised Children and Youth ⚽

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Support a centre creating positive change for marginalised children and youth, including Roma children, facing challenging situations. Run fun leisure activities from board games, arts and crafts and table football to quizzes, sports tournaments and cooking clubs, design and lead your own programmes, and help build confidence and joy every day. Open to applicants from 29 countries across Europe. Apply here →

6. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 🧶 Skills Workshops with Adults with Disabilities 🤝

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Support a centre helping adults with mental and combined disabilities build work and social skills for greater independence. Assist in workshops and therapeutic activities, get creative with knitting, crochet, sewing, ceramics and woodwork, and accompany clients on leisure activities, sports, cultural events and excursions. Open to applicants from 28 countries across Europe. Apply here →

7. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 🤝 Daily Support at a Centre for Adults with Disabilities 🎨

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Support a centre helping adults with moderate to severe disabilities lead active, self-sufficient daily lives. Assist with morning routines and snacks, join singing and music sessions, and work one-on-one on creative and therapeutic activities like handicrafts, art therapy, pottery and exercises for fine motor skills and memory. Open to applicants from 29 countries across Europe. Apply here →

8. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 👵 Supporting Elderly People with Memory Disorders 💛

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Support a centre caring for older people with memory disorders who find it hard to live independently. Work with clients through individual and group activities, from listening and reading to puzzles and meaningful conversations, building trusting relationships with people who may face disorientation or mobility, vision or hearing challenges. Open to applicants from 30 countries across Europe. Apply here →

9. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 🐴 Day Care and Therapy for People with Disabilities 🤝

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Support a centre helping people with disabilities through day care, social activation and early care counselling. Assist service users in daily activities, help with therapeutic programmes like equine therapy, canistherapy and ergotherapy, lend a hand with practical tasks, and accompany users on walks and time in the garden. Open to applicants from 31 countries across Europe. Apply here →

10. 🇮🇪 ESC Volunteering in Ireland 🤝 Children and Youth Services at a Community Centre ⚽

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Join a children and youth services team empowering young people through personal, social, educational and emotional development. Support a variety of clubs and activities, from cooking, baking and sports to drop-ins, homework clubs, mentoring, summer camps and junior leadership, working within a trauma-informed, play-inspired and strengths-based approach. Open to residents of Italy. Apply here →

11. 🇮🇪 ESC Volunteering in Ireland 🤝 Youth and Community Work in Dublin 🎨

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Join a youth and community services team creating inclusive, welcoming spaces where children, young people and families connect, grow and thrive. Help build positive relationships and a strong sense of belonging by supporting youth clubs, community drop-ins, summer projects, study clubs, training workshops, peer support groups and junior leadership initiatives. Open to residents of Italy. Apply here →

12. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in 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. Apply here →

13. 🇱🇺 ESC Volunteering in Luxembourg 📱 Communication for Ecological Transition 🌱

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Support a non-profit accelerating the ecological and social transition through citizen-led initiatives. As a communication volunteer you help create engaging content across channels, working closely with the Communication Manager on graphic design, website management, content creation, communication strategies and event promotion, then join a vibrant community through zero-waste, repair, gardening and sustainable food workshops. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 and 11 more. Apply here →

14. 🇦🇹 ESC Volunteering in Austria 🤝 Life in an Inclusive Community 💛

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Become part of a warm community of people with and without disabilities in the Tyrolean Alps. More than care, this is about community, personal relationships and a real home. Engage in daily community life, support residents through their routines, help with communication, planning and interaction, and take part in projects, including creating one of your own with professional support. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 and 26 more. Apply here →

15. 🇷🇴 ESC Volunteering in Romania 🌾 Documenting Rural Life and Heritage 📸

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Discover and document rural life in a Romanian village: meet people, take photos, learn recipes, and listen to stories and legends. Carry out light sociological research, gather audio, video, photo and written material, and help create and map hiking and biking trails linking local produce and places to see. Organise intercultural events, edit and publish your materials online, and present your work, all while promoting rural heritage and sustainable values. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 and 25 more. Apply here →

16. 🇷🇴 ESC Volunteering in Romania 🌱 Youth Centres and Environmental Education 🎪

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Join a team preparing activities in youth centres and educating young people about the environment in rural Romania. Run interactive activities, lectures, simulation games and role-plays with youngsters, including at a mobile youth centre, take pupils on visits to a landfill and recycling centre, and organise treasure hunts, wide games and intercultural events across youth centres, schools, libraries and the outdoors, including a summer rural festival. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 and 25 more. Apply here →

17. 🇭🇺 ESC Volunteering in Hungary 🖼️ Social Media Officer at a National Portrait Gallery 📱

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Love history, painting or family-tree research, and feel at home writing for social media? A national portrait gallery is looking for a volunteer to edit its social media and website content, help prepare publications and lend a hand with exhibitions. You get access to fascinating research material, a flexible schedule, room to build professional contacts and, especially for those from the field, the chance to publish your own work. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇷🇴 🇷🇸 🇸🇰 🇺🇦. Apply here →

18. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🏫 Democratic Participation and Wellbeing in a School Community 🎨

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

An education centre covering 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 explore democratic participation in Europe and wellbeing at school through interdisciplinary themes of art, nature, culture and languages. They want someone proactive who lives 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. Apply here →

19. 🇬🇷 ESC Volunteering in Greece 📢 Supporting a Youth Centre and Its ESC Community 🎨

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Be the link between an organisation and the volunteers it hosts. You organise activities for the volunteers, run projects and prepare workshops and campaigns, support local youth at school fairs and projects, develop the organisation's webpage, edit and publish a newsletter about ESC life, take care of the social media, and act as a contact person for partner organisations and incoming volunteers. A hands-on, connective role for someone social, creative and organised. Open to residents of France. Apply here →

20. 🇵🇹 ESC Volunteering in 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 run educational and global-citizenship activities with youth and children, put upcycling, restoration and recycling into practice in the atelier, 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. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇹🇷 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 and 11 more. Apply here →

21. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 🤝 Youth Support at a Community Social Centre 🌍

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Join a federation of social centres built on human dignity, solidarity and democracy, based at a community centre open to all local residents. The centre strengthens social ties and supports families and young people through a popular-education approach that helps residents become active participants in their community. As a volunteer you bring your own ideas, support youth projects and get involved in daily life, with real room to develop your own initiative. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 🇭🇷 🇪🇪 and 13 more. Apply here →

22. 🇨🇴 ESC Volunteering in Colombia 🌎 Supporting International Cooperation Projects 📊

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

As a European Solidarity Corps volunteer you support international cooperation and humanitarian aid projects: helping with budgets, monitoring financial implementation, organising financial documentation, preparing reports, supporting audits, and joining field activities to gather information and follow up on projects. An excellent chance to gain hands-on project-management experience while contributing to work with real social impact, with training in areas like feminist leadership, project monitoring and financial justification. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 🇵🇹 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 and 26 more. Apply here →

23. 🇵🇱 ESC Volunteering in Poland 🎨 Long-Term Community Work with Youth or Seniors 🤝

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Spend ten to twelve months in a Polish city becoming actively involved in the local community. Depending on your placement you may work with children and young people during school hours or afternoon workshops, support activities with seniors, or get involved in the local cultural scene, through language and intercultural workshops, sports, arts and crafts, cultural events and creative initiatives. Volunteers are encouraged to develop their own ideas with the hosting organisation's support. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 🇵🇹 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 and 60 more. Apply here →

24. 🇬🇷 ESC Volunteering in Greece 🛖 Off-Grid Eco-Building in a Sustainable Community 🌿

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Get your hands dirty and your mind full at an off-grid sustainability community on the Greek island of Evia, building on work growing on site since 2010. As part of this ESC team you help complete three eco-buildings, including the community's future main hub, plus a new yurt and nursery, and improve existing constructions through skill-sharing alongside trainers. The project runs 25 days including travel, for 12 to 14 participants. You stay at the off-grid test site in natural buildings, with plant-based cuisine, compost toilets and a community-respectful rhythm, all within walking distance of the sea. Open to applicants from 🇬🇷 🇮🇹 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇭🇷 and 19 more. Apply here →

25. 🇵🇹 ESC Volunteering in Portugal 🌍 European Youth Goals and Active Citizenship ✨

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Spend six weeks turning European values into action in Beja. With Check-IN you design and deliver workshops and non-formal activities on the European Youth Goals and active citizenship, support "Time to Move" Eurodesk actions, and run game-based sessions for the local community of all ages. Great for creative, community-minded youth. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 and 25 more. Apply here →

26. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 💛 Bringing Joy to Elderly Residents 🎶

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Brighten the days of elderly residents near Strasbourg. In a retirement home in Bischwiller you create music, creative workshops, games, themed evenings and gymnastics, accompany residents on outings and appointments, and give them time to talk, read and stay socially connected. You can even propose projects based on your own interests. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 and 19 more. Apply here →

27. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain ✊ Empowering Women and Migrants 🌍

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Support women and migrants in Bilbao. With EDE Foundation you help run leisure activities for women survivors of gender violence, co-organise cultural events, deliver digital-skills training for unemployed women, and support the social integration of migrants and refugees across Biscay. Meaningful social work in the Basque Country. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 and 21 more. Apply here →

28. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 📸 Content Creation and Community Volunteering 🌱

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Bring your creativity to community work in Sorgun. With SORGED you help run workshops, language clubs, sports events and awareness campaigns, produce social media content, photography and video, and join environmental, healthy-lifestyle and disaster-preparedness activities in an international team. A dynamic two-month experience. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 and 36 more. Apply here →

29. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 📣 Promoting Volunteering Among Youth 🙌

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Inspire other young people to volunteer in Bilbao. With EDE Foundation's BizkaiaGara project you give talks in secondary schools, vocational centres and universities about your volunteering experience, support awareness events and exhibitions, and help promote the ESC programme through media, talks and outreach. Great for outgoing, communicative youth. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 and 21 more. Apply here →

30. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🇪🇺 Participation and European Values 🌍

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Promote participation and European values in Bilbao. With EDE Foundation's participation area and the Europe Direct Office you support child and community participation projects, the "Tratu On" good-treatment initiative, a leisure-activities school for volunteers, and citizen engagement that promotes European values and programmes. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 and 21 more. Apply here →

31. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 🧒 Toddler Support in a Strasbourg Preschool 🎨

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Spend a year with toddlers in a Strasbourg preschool. In a preschool run by the City of Strasbourg you support the development and play of children around three years old, help with meals and snacks, keep them safe and join the team in daily tasks and decisions. Warm, hands-on work with the littlest ones. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 and 20 more. Apply here →

32. 🇸🇮 ESC Volunteering in Slovenia 🎬 Multimedia and Video Production 📸

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Learn multimedia from pros who have worked on Eurovision and MasterChef. In Medvode you master photo, video and audio production with local experts, create content with local organisations, run multimedia workshops for schoolkids, and finish with your own personal project, recording vlogs along the way. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 and 18 more. Apply here →

33. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🌍 Supporting Unaccompanied Foreign Minors in Genoa 🤝

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Some of these teens crossed the world alone. Be a friendly face waiting for them. At La Comunità's "Tuin, Il Giardino" centre in Genoa, home to 16 unaccompanied foreign minors, you support the educators with daily life, build relationships, run games and workshops and share meals. Human work that matters. Open to applicants from 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 and 16 more. Apply here →

34. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 📚 Supporting Children in Educational Centers in Genoa 🎨

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Be the steady presence a child in crisis can count on. With La Comunità in Genoa you join the staff at daily educational centres for minors from high-risk contexts: picking kids up from school, homework support, creative and sports activities, shared meals and work with families. Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇭🇷 and 18 more. Apply here →

35. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🧒 Working with Teens & Children in Genoa 🎨

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Be the steady, cheerful presence a kid remembers for life. With Il Ce.Sto in Genoa's historic centre you run games and social animation for children and teens, lead workshops and sports, give afterschool tutoring and support intercultural events. A delicate, meaningful role in a truly multicultural neighbourhood. Open to applicants from 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 🇷🇴 and 19 more. Apply here →

36. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 📚 After-School & Sports with Kids in Genoa ⚽

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Homework help, a warm lunch, a football match. Small things that change a childhood. With Centro Storico Ragazzi in Genoa you support after-school tutoring, share meals in the canteen, help with a boys' football and girls' volleyball team, and join summer camps for kids aged 6 to 18. Open to applicants from 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 🇷🇴 and 17 more. Apply here →

37. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye ⛑️ Building Disaster-Ready Communities in Yozgat 🌍

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Turn a month into a life-saving skill set. In the "You Future" project in Sorgun, Yozgat, you train for 30 days on disaster preparedness, first aid, search and rescue, climate change and community resilience, then pass that knowledge on through campaigns and activities for local children, youth and adults. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 and 34 more. Apply here →

38. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 💛 Supporting Elderly People with Memory Disorders at Siloe, Ostrava 🌈

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Sometimes the kindest thing you can do is simply listen. At the Siloe centre in Ostrava you support elderly people with memory disorders through individual and group activities: reading, puzzles, meaningful conversations and building trust with people facing disorientation or mobility challenges. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 and 23 more. Apply here →

39. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 🌍 30-Day Team Volunteering on Disaster Preparedness ⛑️

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Learn to save lives, then teach a whole community how. In the "You Future" project in Sorgun, Yozgat, a team of 10 volunteers trains for 30 days on disaster preparedness, first aid, climate change, search and rescue and community resilience, then runs awareness campaigns and activities for local children, youth and adults. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 and 34 more. Apply here →

40. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 🎨 Afternoon Club for Children from the Street in Karviná ⚽

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Be the reason a kid's afternoon lights up. At the Pohoda centre in Karviná you support marginalised children and youth aged 6 to 13, including Roma children, through board games, arts and crafts, sports tournaments, cooking clubs and homework help. Space to design your own programmes too. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇷🇴 and 23 more. Apply here →

41. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 🌍 Youth Work, Culture & Community in Yozgat 🎨

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Two months of youth work in the heart of Anatolia. With SORGED in Sorgun, Yozgat you help run workshops, intercultural learning, language clubs, sports events and awareness campaigns, while creating social media content, photography and video for young people and the local community. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇵🇱 and 36 more. Apply here →

42. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 💛 Supporting Adults with Mental Disabilities at EDEN 🎨

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Small moments, patiently shared, that mean the world. At the EDEN daycare centre in Český Těšín you support adults with moderate to severe mental disabilities: helping with daily routines, joining music and singing, and working one-on-one on art therapy, pottery, handicrafts and fine-motor and memory exercises. Open to applicants from 🇵🇱 🇸🇰 🇭🇷 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 and 1 more. Apply here →

43. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 🧶 Crafts & Skills with Adults with Disabilities at EBEN EZER 🎨

📅 Deadline: 15 August 2026

Help build independence, one handmade thing at a time. At the EBEN EZER centre in Český Těšín you support adults with mental and combined disabilities in developing work and social skills: workshops and therapy in knitting, crochet, sewing, ceramics and woodwork, plus leisure activities, sports and excursions. Open to applicants from 🇵🇱 🇸🇰 🇭🇷 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 and 1 more. Apply here →

Forty-three fully funded ESC placements, fifteen countries, one deadline. If you read this far, something already caught you, whether it was the finance-and-fieldwork placement in Colombia, the off-grid building community on a Greek island, the multimedia studio in Slovenia, or the quieter, profoundly human work with elderly people, disabled adults, refugees and children across Czechia, Italy, Spain and beyond. This round leans heavily towards care and youth work, so it is a gift for anyone drawn to social impact, but it also has real depth for creatives, environmentalists and first-time volunteers who just want a meaningful few weeks or a full year abroad. The two things that decide your shortlist are duration and eligibility: placements range from a 25-day team in Greece to twelve-month commitments, and while most welcome applicants from across Europe and its neighbours, several are limited to residents of a single country, so check each eligibility line before you invest time in applying.

There is no soft version of this deadline. Every placement above closes on 15 August 2026, and the strongest ones are being filled as good candidates apply, so the honest advice is to act today rather than tomorrow. If you are not yet sure whether ESC volunteering suits you, what exactly is funded, or how ESC Portal registration works, take five minutes with our complete guide at youthworkshub.org/esc and then apply, because the guide will still be there next week and these placements will not. And if you would rather never miss a closing date like this again, join our broadcast channel through the link in our bio, where we post every new batch the moment it opens, so the next 43 reach you with time to spare.