Volunteer abroad for free this autumn: 18 fully funded European Solidarity Corps placements are open right now, spread across nine countries and two continents. Every one is fully funded, so if you have ever wondered what the European Solidarity Corps is or whether ESC volunteering is really fully funded, here is the short version: the EU pays young people to volunteer on solidarity projects, covering your travel, accommodation, food, insurance and a monthly allowance. This batch stretches from the Sahel to the Mediterranean. You could be using data to fight hunger with Action Against Hunger in Dakar, training teachers and closing the digital divide in Kampala, helping women turn shea butter and basket weaving into lasting cooperatives in rural Ghana, or building climate resilience in communities facing a changing environment. Closer to home, there is delicate, human work supporting unaccompanied minors and young girls in Genoa, welcoming 16-to-25-year-olds into youth and culture centres in Nantes, standing with refugees and migrants in Polykastro, upcycling and crafting with young adults in Luxembourg, renovating a house of interculturality in Marseille, and turning art into social impact in Almería.
Whoever you are, something here fits. Drawn to education and digital skills? There are teaching, teacher-training and ICT placements across Uganda and Ghana. Pulled toward social care and inclusion? There are placements with unaccompanied minors, young girls, refugees and young people not in education or employment. Into climate, enterprise and data? There are roles in climate adaptation, vocational skills, women's economic empowerment and humanitarian data analysis. More of a culture and creativity person? Nantes, Almería, Luxembourg and a French high school all want you. A quick word on eligibility so there are no surprises: ten of these are standard ESC placements for ages 18 to 30, while the eight in Senegal, Uganda and Ghana fall under the ESC Humanitarian Aid strand, which is open up to age 35. Most welcome applicants from across Europe and its neighbours, but a few are reserved for residents of a single country, so read the eligibility line on each before you apply. The deadlines are the pressure point, with the first ones landing on 22 August, so if a placement speaks to you, move today.
In This Batch
- 🇸🇳 Senegal, Dakar · surveillance & data analysis with Action Against Hunger · 📅 ASAP
- 🇹🇷 Türkiye, Sorgun · short-term youth & community work · 📅 22 Aug
- 🇮🇹 Italy, Genoa · supporting unaccompanied foreign minors · 📅 22 Aug
- 🇮🇹 Italy, Genoa · supporting young girls in a residential community · 📅 22 Aug
- 🇺🇬 Uganda, Kampala · education & teacher development · 📅 30 Aug
- 🇺🇬 Uganda, Kampala · digital empowerment trainer · 📅 30 Aug
- 🇺🇬 Uganda, near Kampala · education support in a rural school · 📅 31 Aug
- 🇬🇭 Ghana, Bolgatanga · women's economic empowerment · 📅 31 Aug
- 🇫🇷 France, Le Mans · Spanish culture & mobility support in a high school · 📅 31 Aug
- 🇬🇭 Ghana, Tamale · climate adaptation & disaster preparedness · 📅 31 Aug
- 🇬🇭 Ghana, Tamale · vocational skills coordinator · 📅 31 Aug
- 🇬🇭 Ghana, Bolgatanga · ICT & digital skills for rural students · 📅 31 Aug
- 🇫🇷 France, Nantes · youth, culture & inclusion at Le TriptiC · 📅 1 Sep
- 🇫🇷 France, Nantes · promoting access to culture for all · 📅 1 Sep
- 🇬🇷 Greece, Polykastro · supporting refugees & migrants · 📅 15 Sep
- 🇫🇷 France, Marseille · renovating the House of Interculturality · 📅 15 Sep
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg, Luxembourg City · youth upcycling & craft workshop · 📅 30 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain, Almería · culture with social impact · 📅 31 Oct
18 Fully Funded ESC Placements · 9 Countries · Europe & Africa
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
1. 🇸🇳 ESC Humanitarian Volunteering in Senegal 📊 Surveillance & Data Analysis with Action Against Hunger in Dakar 🌍
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Use data to help fight hunger across the Sahel. With Action Against Hunger's regional office in Dakar you support surveillance activities: analyzing and disseminating indicators, drafting alert reports, maintaining visualization platforms (GeoSahel, SigSahel, Power BI), supporting fundraising and proposals, and analyzing the impact of climate change on food security for pastoral populations. Humanitarian Aid strand (ages 18 to 35). Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 and 26 more.
2. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 🌍 Short-Term Youth & Community Work in Sorgun 🎨
📅 Deadline: 22 August 2026
Two months of hands-on youth work in the heart of Anatolia. With SORGED in Sorgun you help organize workshops, intercultural activities, language clubs, sports events and awareness campaigns, create social media content and photography, and take part in environmental, healthy-lifestyle and disaster-awareness activities with local communities. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇦🇹 🇧🇦 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 and 35 more.
3. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🤝 Supporting Unaccompanied Foreign Minors in Genoa 🌍
📅 Deadline: 22 August 2026
Be a steady presence for young people rebuilding their lives. With La Comunità in Genoa you support educators at the "Tuin" residential center where 16 unaccompanied foreign minors live: helping with daily accompaniments and community life, organizing games and workshops, and building trusting relationships. A delicate role that calls for patience and creativity. Open to applicants from 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 and 15 more.
4. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 💜 Supporting Young Girls in a Residential Community in Genoa 🌸
📅 Deadline: 22 August 2026
Help young girls find their footing and their future. With Buon Pastore in Genoa you support the staff of residential centers caring for young girls on their path to independence: preparing activities, joining summer outings and trips, sharing daily life, and looking after the space and the people in it. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 and 23 more.
5. 🇺🇬 ESC Humanitarian Volunteering in Uganda 📚 Education & Teacher Development in Kampala 🎓
📅 Deadline: 30 August 2026
Help teachers teach better and students learn more. With ADRA and Uganda Pioneers Association in Kampala you support classroom activities, strengthen the teaching team's pedagogical skills through training, deliver computer and digital literacy lessons, run co-curricular activities, and involve parents in the learning process. Humanitarian Aid strand (ages 18 to 35). Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 and 26 more.
6. 🇺🇬 ESC Humanitarian Volunteering in Uganda 💻 Digital Empowerment Trainer in Kampala 🚀
📅 Deadline: 30 August 2026
Close the digital divide, one training at a time. With ADRA and Uganda Pioneers Association in Kampala you design and run digital skills and social media marketing trainings for UPA staff and partners, upgrade UPA's digital platforms, deliver ICT sessions for schools and community organisations, and monitor the impact before and after. Humanitarian Aid strand (ages 18 to 35). Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 and 26 more.
7. 🇺🇬 ESC Humanitarian Volunteering in Uganda 📚 Education Support in a Rural Community School near Kampala 🎓
📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026
Help a whole school teach and learn better. With Uganda Pioneers Association and Mondo you lead workshops to strengthen school management, equip teachers with new teaching methods, support subject teachers, build up the school library through partnerships, and organize extracurricular activities for a well-rounded education. Humanitarian Aid strand (ages 18 to 35). Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 and 26 more.
8. 🇬🇭 ESC Humanitarian Volunteering in Ghana ✊ Women's Economic Empowerment in Rural Bolgatanga 🧺
📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026
Help women turn traditional crafts into lasting independence. With NGO Mondo and Kongo Community Development Association in Nabdam, Upper East Ghana, you strengthen women's skills in shea butter production, basket and cloth weaving, build lasting cooperatives, engage with school-age children, and even open new European markets for their artisanal products. Humanitarian Aid strand (ages 18 to 35). Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 and 26 more.
9. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 🎓 Spanish Culture & Mobility Support in a French High School ✨
📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026
Make Europe feel real for students getting ready to fly. With Maison de l'Europe Le Mans you support students preparing for their Erasmus+ internships, spark cultural curiosity through Spanish language and culture, join classroom activities, run European events like Erasmus Days, and handle internal communication. Open to residents of Spain.
10. 🇬🇭 ESC Humanitarian Volunteering in Ghana 🌍 Climate Adaptation & Disaster Preparedness in Tamale 🌱
📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026
Help rural communities stand strong against a changing climate. With NGO Mondo and GDCA in Northern Ghana you carry out climate vulnerability assessments, identify practical interventions, and build local capacity in energy saving, reduce-reuse-repair-recycle, food management, income diversification and sustainable organic farming, while strengthening stakeholder engagement in climate action. Humanitarian Aid strand (ages 18 to 35). Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 and 26 more.
11. 🇬🇭 ESC Humanitarian Volunteering in Ghana 🛠️ Vocational Skills Coordinator in Tamale 💼
📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026
Help young people build skills that build a future. With NGO Mondo and GDCA in Tamale you plan and coordinate vocational skills projects that boost employability and entrepreneurship, engage trainees, trainers and craftspeople, provide career guidance and monitor program effectiveness. Humanitarian Aid strand (ages 18 to 35). Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 and 26 more.
12. 🇬🇭 ESC Humanitarian Volunteering in Ghana 💻 ICT & Digital Skills for Rural Students in Bolgatanga 🖥️
📅 Deadline: 31 August 2026
Hand rural students the digital head start they deserve. With NGO Mondo and Kongo Community Development Association in Nabdam, Upper East Ghana, you build computer awareness among school children and the community, teach at the newly equipped ICT classroom in Kongo village, and promote the use of technology in teaching and learning. Humanitarian Aid strand (ages 18 to 35). Open to applicants from 🇩🇪 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇹🇷 and 26 more.
13. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 🎨 Youth, Culture & Inclusion at Le TriptiC in Nantes 🌍
📅 Deadline: 1 September 2026
Be the friendly face a young person walks in and finds. At Le TriptiC Léo Lagrange in Nantes, a center for 16-to-25-year-olds, you help run debates, workshops and cultural outings, welcome users and lead informal activities, handle the center's photos, videos and social media, and build your own project for the community. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 19 more.
14. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 🎭 Promoting Access to Culture for All in Nantes ✨
📅 Deadline: 1 September 2026
Make culture something every young person can reach. At L'Eclectic Léo Lagrange in Nantes, a center for 16-to-25-year-olds, you help run community events, debates, workshops and cultural outings, welcome users, handle the center's photos, videos and social media, and develop your own project for the community. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 19 more.
15. 🇬🇷 ESC Volunteering in Greece 🤝 Supporting Refugees & Migrants in Polykastro 🌍
📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026
Two months that put solidarity into action. With Open Cultural Center in Polykastro you support refugees and migrants by teaching basic language and digital literacy, running well-being activities in the women's space, helping with communications and social media, or supporting the bike rental service. Open to residents of Italy.
16. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 🔨 Renovating the House of Interculturality & Volunteering in Marseille 🌿
📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026
Restore a heritage house and the community around it. With Une Terre Culturelle in Marseille you help renovate the Maison IV: hands-on work like restoring windows, upkeep and gardening, organizing pedagogical and digital materials, while also supporting the association's intercultural exchange and international mobility projects and local events. Open to residents of 🇦🇹 🇭🇷 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇮🇹 and 2 more.
17. 🇱🇺 ESC Volunteering in Luxembourg ♻️ Youth Upcycling & Craft Workshop in Luxembourg City 🪵
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Give old materials, and young people, a fresh start. With the National Youth Service you join the Ateliers team supporting young adults not in education or employment: crafting alongside them in woodwork and sewing, upcycling donated materials, befriending participants, cooking shared lunches and running the workshop's Instagram. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 19 more.
18. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🎭 Culture with Social Impact in Almería 🎬
📅 Deadline: 31 October 2026
Turn art into real change for a community. With La Guajira in a historic Almería neighbourhood you gain hands-on experience in audiovisual production, sound recording, cultural project management (especially performing arts), social media and graphic design, supporting concerts, workshops, exhibitions and social activities for people at risk of exclusion. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇦 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 and 25 more.
Eighteen fully funded placements, nine countries, two continents, and a real chance to spend your autumn doing something that matters. If you scrolled this far, one of them already caught you, whether it was the data and climate work across Senegal and Ghana, the education and digital-skills placements in Uganda, the deeply human care roles in Genoa and Nantes, or the hands-on pull of renovation in Marseille and upcycling in Luxembourg. The two things that shape your shortlist are eligibility and timing. Ten placements are standard ESC for ages 18 to 30, while the eight in Senegal, Uganda and Ghana are Humanitarian Aid roles open up to 35, and a handful are reserved for residents of one country, so check each listing carefully. If you have never done this before, you will need to register on the ESC Portal to apply, and a specific, well-prepared motivation letter is often what gets you selected. On timing, the list is ordered soonest-first for a reason: the first deadlines fall on 22 August and a large group closes on 31 August, so waiting rarely helps when strong projects fill early. Do one concrete thing today: pick the placement that fits you, open its link, check the dates and eligibility, and send your application. And if you want rounds like this to reach you the moment they open, rather than scrolling dozens at once, join our broadcast channel through the link in our bio, where we share every new batch first.
