Twenty-five new European Solidarity Corps volunteering placements just opened across 10 countries, and at Youth Works Hub we've pulled them together so you can compare them before deadlines close. The earliest deadlines fall on 06 September, and the batch stretches out to 04 October, so there is a real spread here, some placements need a decision this week, others give you a few extra weeks to prepare.
Community and social support work dominates this batch. Italy alone brings six placements, from refugee integration and educational inclusion in the north to community health and social support further south. Spain offers nine, the largest single-country group, covering everything from youth employability and digital communication to humanitarian aid finance, organisational compliance, and two separate placements supporting hospitalised children. Greece, Türkiye and Portugal each bring distinct projects, from a community health festival in Greece to youth mentoring inside a professional broadcasting studio in Türkiye and art therapy for hospitalised children in a Portuguese village. Belgium, Slovakia, Finland, Lithuania and Poland round out the list with everything from refugee legal support to scout-campsite maintenance and youth centre social media work.
As with every ESC placement, all 25 are fully funded, covering your flight, accommodation, food and a monthly allowance. Whether this is your first ESC application or your fifth, read through the full list below, sorted by deadline, before deciding which one genuinely fits your interests and availability.
All 25 placements are fully funded under the European Solidarity Corps: travel to and from the host country, accommodation, food and a monthly pocket money allowance are covered, along with insurance. Deadlines in this batch run from 06 September through to 04 October 2026, so check each listing's own deadline before you start your application.
In This Batch
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 06 Sep
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 06 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 07 Sep
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 07 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 07 Sep
- 🇸🇰 Slovakia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 08 Sep
- 🇬🇷 Greece · ESC Volunteering · 📅 08 Sep
- 🇧🇪 Belgium · ESC Volunteering · 📅 09 Sep
- 🇬🇷 Greece · ESC Volunteering · 📅 10 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 10 Sep
- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · ESC Volunteering · 📅 10 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 10 Sep
- 🇫🇮 Finland · ESC Volunteering · 📅 10 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 10 Sep
- 🇱🇹 Lithuania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 14 Sep
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 14 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 15 Sep
- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · ESC Volunteering · 📅 15 Sep
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 15 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 20 Sep
- 🇵🇹 Portugal · ESC Volunteering · 📅 21 Sep
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 23 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 25 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Sep
- 🇵🇱 Poland · ESC Volunteering · 📅 04 Oct
What's in this batch:
25 ESC Volunteering Placements · 10 Countries
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
1. 🇮🇹 Refugee Integration and Community Support, Italy
📅 Deadline: 06 September 2026
Support daily life for refugees and asylum seekers, helping with housing management, Italian language courses, sports and cultural activities, and access to legal, health and employment support. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇧🇬 🇨🇿 🇱🇻 🇺🇦 and 18 more.
2. 🇮🇹 Social Animation for Kids and Teens, Italy
📅 Deadline: 06 September 2026
Run social animation activities, games and workshops for children and teenagers at a multicultural community centre, including afterschool tutoring, summer camps and intercultural events. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇦🇹 🇫🇮 🇲🇹 🇵🇱 and 20 more.
3. 🇪🇸 Youth Employability and Digital Communication, Spain
📅 Deadline: 07 September 2026
Create communication and social media content for a community organisation supporting youth employability, while taking part in local activities that promote social participation for young people at risk of exclusion. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇨🇿 🇪🇪 🇬🇷 🇱🇹 and 20 more.
4. 🇮🇹 Educational Inclusion and Community Support, Italy
📅 Deadline: 07 September 2026
Support educational inclusion for disadvantaged students, help organise food assistance for vulnerable families, and facilitate community workshops that build civic engagement and active participation. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇫🇮 🇱🇹 🇲🇰 and 24 more.
5. 🇪🇸 Family and Youth Community Support, Spain
📅 Deadline: 07 September 2026
Support tutoring programmes, leisure activities and summer camps for children, teenagers and families at risk of social exclusion, working across multiple community associations in an intercultural environment. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇬 🇨🇾 🇩🇰 🇸🇰 and 23 more.
6. 🇸🇰 Creative Content and Youth Community Work, Slovakia
📅 Deadline: 08 September 2026
Support youth work with teenagers through mentoring, community activities and creative content production such as posters and videos, contributing to local youth engagement initiatives. Open to applicants from 🇱🇺 🇲🇹 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 and 27 more.
7. 🇬🇷 Content Creation and Community Engagement, Greece
📅 Deadline: 08 September 2026
Create digital content and support social media activities for a youth organisation, while helping organise workshops, meet-ups and community events that bring people together. Open to residents of Portugal.
8. 🇧🇪 Refugee Support and Legal Information, Belgium
📅 Deadline: 09 September 2026
Coordinate a large volunteer team supporting asylum seekers with legal information and outreach activities, contributing to a project that defends refugee rights and facilitates access to legal aid. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇬 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇱🇺 and 22 more.
9. 🇬🇷 Community Health Festival and Wellbeing, Greece
📅 Deadline: 10 September 2026
Join a team of volunteers creating a public health festival from the ground up, blending creative communication, community engagement and wellbeing activities to spark conversations around health across the community. Open to applicants from 🇫🇮 🇬🇪 🇧🇦 🇹🇳 🇵🇹 and 47 more.
10. 🇪🇸 Admin and Financial Support for International Projects, Spain
📅 Deadline: 10 September 2026
Support the administrative and financial management of international volunteering projects, helping prepare budgets, reports and documentation for an organisation working on human rights and solidarity. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇬 🇨🇿 🇱🇹 🇵🇹 and 23 more.
11. 🇹🇷 Community Support and Social Inclusion, Türkiye
📅 Deadline: 10 September 2026
Support a local youth association through conversation clubs, community events, disability inclusion activities and social media outreach, contributing to solidarity and integration work in the city. Open to residents of France.
12. 🇪🇸 Compliance and Organisational Governance, Spain
📅 Deadline: 10 September 2026
Support organisational compliance and governance work, including policy review, donor and regulatory monitoring, risk management and safeguarding administration, within an international NGO environment. Open to applicants from 🇨🇿 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇬🇷 🇸🇰 and 23 more.
13. 🇫🇮 Halloween Community Event, Finland
📅 Deadline: 10 September 2026
Help organise a Halloween event at a youth centre, planning activities and celebrations for local children, families and the community while sharing your own culture and learning about Finnish traditions. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇮🇸 🇱🇮 🇱🇺 🇺🇦 and 22 more.
14. 🇪🇸 Humanitarian Aid Finance and Donor Compliance, Spain
📅 Deadline: 10 September 2026
Support the financial management of humanitarian aid projects, reviewing budgets, preparing donor reports and audits, and building practical skills in project finance within an international cooperation team. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇮🇸 🇱🇮 🇲🇹 🇳🇴 and 22 more.
15. 🇱🇹 Outdoor Maintenance and Nature Skills, Lithuania
📅 Deadline: 14 September 2026
Get hands-on with practical work at a scout campsite, from woodworking and maintenance to preparing outdoor spaces for every season, while supporting camps and youth activities in a close-knit community. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇫🇮 🇬🇷 🇸🇰 and 18 more.
16. 🇮🇹 Community Youth Centre and Social Inclusion, Italy
📅 Deadline: 14 September 2026
Support a community youth centre through activities for children, teenagers and the elderly, from garden and public space care to event organisation, sports inclusion and civic participation projects. Open to applicants from 🇬🇷 🇳🇴 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 and 4 more.
17. 🇪🇸 Non Formal Education and Community Projects, Spain
📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026
Organise non-formal educational activities for kids and teenagers, take part in community radio and bike-lane initiatives, and support youth exchange preparation in a small Spanish town. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇪🇪 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇵🇱 and 4 more.
18. 🇹🇷 Youth Mentoring and Broadcasting Studio, Türkiye
📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026
Mentor local students and support educational activities, or join a professional TV and radio studio to build content creation, broadcasting and digital storytelling skills, alongside sports, music and environmental initiatives. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇫🇮 🇸🇪 and 23 more.
19. 🇮🇹 Sustainable Food Culture and Community Kitchen, Italy
📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026
Promote sustainable food culture through workshops on conscious consumption and waste reduction, while supporting a community space hosting cultural events for children, young people and the elderly. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇩🇰 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 and 4 more.
20. 🇪🇸 Permaculture and Wild Theatre at a Rural Actors' Space, Spain
📅 Deadline: 20 September 2026
Eight months on a 16th-century Catalan farmhouse between Barcelona and the Pyrenees, building forest gardens, managing water, caring for chickens, and performing open-air "Wild Theatre" with a small international team. A driving licence is a must, the location is remote countryside. Ages 18 to 30. Open to applicants from 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 and 22 more.
21. 🇵🇹 Art and Emotional Expression for Hospitalised Children, Portugal
📅 Deadline: 21 September 2026
Use art and creative activities to help hospitalised children reflect and express their emotions, while supporting communication and solidarity events in a welcoming Portuguese village community. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇨🇾 🇱🇺 🇲🇹 🇷🇴 and 21 more.
22. 🇮🇹 Community Health and Social Support, Italy
📅 Deadline: 23 September 2026
Support health education, food aid distribution and social inclusion activities for people with disabilities and homeless individuals, contributing to everyday solidarity in a small Northern Italian community. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇮🇱 🇱🇺 🇲🇩 🇲🇪 and 32 more.
23. 🇪🇸 Support for Hospitalised Children, Spain
📅 Deadline: 25 September 2026
Bring creativity and play to hospitalised children through recreational activities that ease the hospital experience, build connections between young patients, and give families moments of respite. Open to applicants from 🇧🇪 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇪 and 3 more.
24. 🇪🇸 Nature Regeneration and Creative Storytelling, Spain
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Join an ESC team living and working in the mountains, combining clean-ups, nature regeneration and upcycling with creative storytelling through photography, video and social media. Open to applicants from 🇬🇪 🇭🇺 🇳🇱 🇵🇱 🇺🇦 and 2 more.
25. 🇵🇱 Youth Centre Social Media and Community, Poland
📅 Deadline: 04 October 2026
Support youth-led activities at a social innovation center, managing social media content, photography and graphic design while helping run workshops and community events for young people. Open to applicants from 🇦🇲 🇧🇾 🇬🇪 🇱🇹 🇲🇹 and 25 more.
Across these 25 placements, Youth Works Hub count opportunities in 10 countries, with Spain and Italy leading the way at nine and six placements each. If community and social work is where your interests lie, the range here is wide: refugee integration, hospitalised children, disability inclusion, humanitarian aid finance and youth mentoring inside a professional broadcasting studio. If you are drawn to something more nature-based, look at the Spain Wild Theatre placement in a Catalan farmhouse, the Lithuania scout-campsite maintenance role, or Spain's mountain-based nature regeneration project.
Every one of these 25 placements is fully funded, so read the eligibility list on each carefully, since several are restricted by nationality or residence, and take the time to write a motivation letter specific to the placement you are applying to. At Youth Works Hub, we track opportunities like these as they open so you do not have to check multiple sources yourself. Deadlines here start on 06 September and run through 04 October, so check the ones that genuinely fit your interests and eligibility, and apply.
