Twenty new fully funded European Solidarity Corps placements just opened across 13 countries, and at Youth Works Hub we've sorted them so you can see exactly what's out there and how fast you need to move. Seven are marked as soon as possible, meaning hosts are already reviewing applications and could close the spot within days, so if one of the ASAP roles below speaks to you, do not wait for a quiet weekend to apply. The rest close between 03 and 10 September, giving you a little more breathing room to prepare a strong motivation letter and CV before you submit.
This batch leans heavily into hands-on community and social care work: a kindergarten placement in Poland, national volunteering in social care in Sweden, youth empowerment projects in Türkiye and Bulgaria, and inclusive education support for children with disabilities in Romania. Spain brings two placements built around sustainability, toy libraries and bike-repair workshops, one pairing volunteering with content creation and social media. Five separate roles cluster around Genoa, Italy, each hosted by a different long-running local organisation and each focused on a distinct group: unaccompanied minors, refugees and asylum seekers, young girls in residential care, at-risk children, and neighbourhood kids and teens, so if Italy interests you, read all five carefully before choosing which fits you best. Croatia offers two very different placements, one moving between mountain villages and a small island supporting elderly residents, the other slowing down in a rural eco-centre focused on sustainable living. Slovakia needs support running a youth centre and summer camps, Greece is looking for a volunteer to run its youth information office and social media in Xylokastro, and Portugal has a six-month placement working with toddlers at a social kindergarten in Lisbon, open only to female applicants from Spain, France or Italy.
Two placements in this batch sit under the ESC's humanitarian aid volunteering track rather than standard volunteering: a project in Namayumba, Uganda building a youth vocational centre from the ground up, and a 180-day placement in Okhaldhunga, Nepal supporting communities recovering from recent devastating floods. Both are physically demanding and genuinely high-impact, and because they fall under humanitarian aid rather than standard ESC, the age range extends up to 35. As with every ESC placement, all 20 of these are fully funded, covering your flight, accommodation, food and a monthly allowance, so the only real cost of applying is the time it takes to write a good motivation letter. Whether this is your first ESC application or your fifth, there is a place for you somewhere in this list.
As ESC placements, all 20 roles are fully funded: travel to and from the host country, accommodation, food and a monthly pocket money allowance are covered, along with insurance. The two humanitarian aid placements in Uganda and Nepal follow the same funding structure but sit under ESC's humanitarian aid strand, which allows applicants up to 35. Deadlines in this batch cluster from immediate (as soon as possible) through to 10 September, so check each listing's own deadline before you start your application.
In This Batch
- 🇵🇱 Poland · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
- 🇸🇪 Sweden · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
- 🇷🇴 Romania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 03 Sep
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 03 Sep
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 03 Sep
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 03 Sep
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 03 Sep
- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · ESC Volunteering · 📅 05 Sep
- 🇭🇷 Croatia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 05 Sep
- 🇬🇷 Greece · ESC Volunteering · 📅 06 Sep
- 🇺🇬 Uganda · ESC Humanitarian Volunteering · 📅 06 Sep
- 🇵🇹 Portugal · ESC Volunteering · 📅 07 Sep
- 🇭🇷 Croatia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 07 Sep
- 🇸🇰 Slovakia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 08 Sep
- 🇳🇵 Nepal · ESC Humanitarian Volunteering · 📅 10 Sep
What's in this batch:
20 ESC Volunteering Placements · 13 Countries
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
1. 🇵🇱 Kindergarten and Intercultural Education, Poland
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Support daily activities at a kindergarten, introducing young children to new languages and cultures through play, creative workshops and outdoor activities, while bringing an intercultural dimension to early childhood education. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇪🇪 🇬🇷 🇮🇸 🇸🇪 and 22 more.
2. 🇸🇪 National Community and Social Care, Sweden
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
This is a National Volunteering placement, open only to residents of Sweden, focused on inclusive community work that builds empathy, communication skills and hands-on experience in social care.
3. 🇹🇷 Community and Youth Empowerment Projects, Türkiye
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Contribute to youth and community initiatives spanning university outreach, cultural heritage activities, family support services and inclusion projects for people with disabilities and women, across multiple local partner institutions. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇧🇦 🇲🇰 🇳🇴 🇲🇹 and 25 more.
4. 🇷🇴 Education and Social Inclusion for Children, Romania
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Support educational and social activities for children and young people with disabilities across nurseries, schools and community centres, through creative workshops, sports and cultural exchange. Open to applicants from 🇬🇪 🇱🇺 🇲🇩 🇸🇪 🇨🇾 and 24 more.
5. 🇪🇸 Sustainability and Community Content Creation, Spain
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Contribute to a sustainability-focused project blending toy libraries, bike-repair workshops, circular economy initiatives and creative storytelling, while documenting community activities through social media and visual content. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇩🇰 🇬🇷 🇸🇰 and 22 more.
6. 🇧🇬 Youth Empowerment and Community Engagement, Bulgaria
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Step into a volunteering placement built around youth empowerment, community events and creative outreach, supporting environmental action and non-formal education initiatives. Open to applicants from 🇭🇺 🇮🇸 🇱🇺 🇺🇦 🇸🇪 and 28 more.
7. 🇪🇸 Community Facilitation and Social Inclusion, Spain
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Facilitate community workshops spanning a toy library, bike-repair sessions, sewing initiatives and outdoor cultural activities, fostering social inclusion and intercultural dialogue through non-formal education. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇨🇾 🇪🇪 🇱🇺 🇱🇹 and 22 more.
8. 🇮🇹 A Home for Unaccompanied Minors (TUIN), Genoa, Italy
📅 Deadline: 03 September 2026
Stand beside young people building a new life. La Comunità, a Genoa social enterprise active since 1979, runs "Tuin, Il Giardino," a residential centre where 16 unaccompanied foreign minors develop their personal projects. As a volunteer you'll support the educators in daily accompaniment, help with community living, share free play and build relationships, organise games and workshops, and look after the common spaces and shared meals. Open to applicants aged 22 to 30 from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 and 17 more.
9. 🇮🇹 Working with Migrants, Genoa, Italy
📅 Deadline: 03 September 2026
Support integration in the heart of historic Genoa. Il Ce.Sto has worked since 1987 to promote integration among the different communities of Genoa's old town, with special attention to minors and second-generation migrants. As a volunteer (morning or afternoon shifts) you'll help with the daily management of refugees and asylum seekers in their flats, run integration and socialisation activities (Italian courses, sport, culture), and support legal, health and job-market pathways. Open to applicants aged 25 from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 and 18 more.
10. 🇮🇹 A Residential Community for Young Girls, Genoa, Italy
📅 Deadline: 03 September 2026
Help young girls find their independence and self-fulfilment. Buon Pastore Cooperativa Sociale continues a long tradition of care for young women, running residential centres that host and support girls on their path to independence. As a volunteer you'll support the staff in preparing activities and caring for the spaces and people, plan and join summer and free-time activities, outings and trips, and share the girls' daily life. Open to applicants aged 23 from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 and 21 more.
11. 🇮🇹 Educational Centres with La Comunità, Genoa, Italy
📅 Deadline: 03 September 2026
Help children in high-risk contexts thrive. La Comunità, a Genoa social enterprise since 1979, runs daily educational centres (CED) and social-educational centres (CSE) that support minors and fragile families through temporary crises. As part of the staff you'll support educators in daily commitments, picking children up from school, homework and study support, recreational, creative, sports and outdoor activities, and help with common spaces, shared meals and family activities. Open to applicants aged 20 to 30 from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 and 21 more.
12. 🇮🇹 With Teens and Children at Il Ce.Sto, Genoa, Italy
📅 Deadline: 03 September 2026
Bring play, learning and belonging to kids in Genoa's historic centre. Since 1987, Il Ce.Sto has promoted integration among the neighbourhood's different communities, with a space that empowers minors of many backgrounds. As a volunteer you'll create social animation and games for kids and teens in the social centre and summer camps, run workshops, events and sports with local volunteers, offer afterschool tutoring, and support intercultural events in Luzzati. Open to applicants aged 20 from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 and 20 more.
13. 🇹🇷 Social Media and Community Projects, Türkiye
📅 Deadline: 05 September 2026
Contribute to office work, social welfare initiatives, environmental projects and social media management for a youth association, supporting community outreach and cross cultural exchange. Open to applicants from 🇦🇲 🇪🇬 🇯🇴 🇲🇦 🇺🇦 and 60 more.
14. 🇭🇷 Mountain to Sea Community Service, Croatia
📅 Deadline: 05 September 2026
Support elderly islanders with olive harvesting and woodwork while contributing to community service across two locations, from mountain villages to a small island, in an environmental and creative volunteering team. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇩🇰 🇮🇸 🇲🇹 🇷🇸 and 28 more.
15. 🇬🇷 Youth Information Office, Xylokastro, Greece
📅 Deadline: 06 September 2026
Put your creativity to work for youth information. With Orfeas in Xylokastro you'll run workshops in language schools to build students' communication and cross-cultural cooperation, organise workshops, campaigns and exhibitions for the local community, and stay active on social media with interviews, newsletters, short films and presentations. You'll also handle office and coordination tasks, promote ESC visibility, and help prepare the next Orfeas volunteers. Open to applicants from 🇬🇷 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 and 7 more.
16. 🇺🇬 Build a Youth Centre, Namayumba, Uganda
📅 Deadline: 06 September 2026
Roll up your sleeves for a project with immediate, visible impact. The STORM C project brings 15 volunteers to Namayumba, Uganda to help create a youth vocational education centre. You'll support local builders erecting the training facility, set up a greenhouse and vegetable garden, learn rainwater harvesting, engage with children from St. Joseph Primary School, and help recruit vulnerable local youth for carpentry, dressmaking and weaving workshops. Open to applicants aged 18 to 35 from 🇹🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 and 26 more.
17. 🇵🇹 Working with Toddlers at a Social Kindergarten, Lisbon, Portugal
📅 Deadline: 07 September 2026
Spend six months supporting children aged 4 months to 4 years at a social kindergarten, helping with daily activities, storytelling, creative workshops and community events, with accommodation, allowances and travel covered. Open to female applicants residing in 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇮🇹.
18. 🇭🇷 Soften Our Steps at Eko Centar Latinovac, Croatia
📅 Deadline: 07 September 2026
Slow down and live close to the land in a small Croatian village. Eko Centar Latinovac hosts 13 volunteers to work on sustainable and rural development, community building and multiculturalism. You'll run activities with schools, organise events for the local community, garden, help in the kitchen, and renovate the old village school, experiencing rural life, sustainable practices and vegetarian cuisine. 6h/day, 5 days/week. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 and 31 more.
19. 🇸🇰 Youth Centre and Summer Camp Support, Slovakia
📅 Deadline: 08 September 2026
Help run a youth centre and community camps, supporting activities, mentoring and youth engagement through hands-on community work. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 🇩🇰 🇳🇴 and 27 more.
20. 🇳🇵 Stand with Communities, Rebuild Hope, Okhaldhunga, Nepal
📅 Deadline: 10 September 2026
Join a 180-day journey of solidarity and recovery. After Nepal's recent devastating floods, the STARRY project with Volunteers Initiative Nepal (ViN) begins with relief and community recovery, then moves into long-term empowerment work at the NaraTika Community Learning Center in Okhaldhunga. Focus on children and women: child protection, life-skills and creative activities, educational support, women's empowerment, digital literacy, basic English and entrepreneurship. Open to applicants aged 18 to 35 from 🇹🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 and 26 more.
Across these 20 placements, Youth Works Hub count opportunities in 13 countries, from a Polish kindergarten to a flood-recovery project in rural Nepal, and from national volunteering open only to Swedish residents to placements welcoming applicants from dozens of eligible countries. Seven are open now with no fixed deadline, so those could disappear first; the remaining thirteen close on specific dates between 03 and 10 September, giving you a short but workable window to put together a solid application. If you are drawn to hands-on community and social work, look closely at the five Genoa-based placements, each run by a different Italian host organisation supporting a different group, from unaccompanied minors to at-risk children to young girls building independence. If you want something closer to home comforts with a rural pace, Croatia's eco-centre placement and Slovakia's youth centre and camp support are both worth a look. And if you are ready for something more physically and emotionally demanding, the humanitarian aid placements in Uganda and Nepal offer real, visible impact within a matter of months.
Every one of these placements is fully funded, so cost should not be the reason you do not apply; time is the bigger constraint here, especially for the ASAP listings. Read the eligibility list on each one carefully, since several are restricted to specific countries or, in Sweden's and Portugal's case, to residents or applicants of a particular gender. Prepare your CV and a motivation letter that is specific to the placement rather than generic, since hosts reviewing ASAP applications tend to move quickly on the strongest fit. At Youth Works Hub, we list opportunities like these as soon as they open, so if volunteering abroad through the European Solidarity Corps has been on your mind, this batch of 20 fully funded placements across 13 countries is a solid place to start. Check the deadlines, pick the ones that genuinely fit your interests and eligibility, and apply.
