Twenty new European Solidarity Corps volunteering placements just opened across 12 countries, and at Youth Works Hub we've pulled them together so you can compare them before deadlines close. One is open now with no fixed deadline, while the rest stretch from 06 September all the way through to 31 December 2026, giving you plenty of runway to plan ahead if you spot something further out.
This batch is genuinely varied. Italy brings five placements alone, from supporting unaccompanied minors and birdwatching conservation to disability inclusion and a cultural hub renovation project in the Alta Langa region. Spain offers four, covering youth outreach, digital communication, fair trade advocacy and community activities. Beyond Europe's usual hosts, Mauritania has a humanitarian health and nutrition placement, Georgia offers scout-centre youth work, and Sweden invites you into a self-sustaining permaculture ecovillage. Luxembourg, Croatia, Latvia, France, Romania and Hungary round out the rest with everything from costume-making for a children's play to wetland heritage restoration.
As with every ESC placement, all 20 are fully funded, covering your flight, accommodation, food and a monthly allowance. If you are new to how travel costs actually get reimbursed, that guide breaks down the distance bands. Read through the full list below, sorted by deadline, before deciding which one genuinely fits.
All 20 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 immediate, as soon as possible, through to 31 December 2026, so check each listing's own deadline before you apply.
In This Batch
- 🇧🇬 Bulgaria · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 06 Sep
- 🇫🇷 France · ESC Volunteering · 📅 11 Sep
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 13 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 13 Sep
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 14 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 15 Sep
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 15 Sep
- 🇷🇴 Romania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 20 Sep
- 🇬🇪 Georgia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 20 Sep
- 🇸🇪 Sweden · ESC Volunteering · 📅 22 Sep
- 🇷🇴 Romania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 28 Sep
- 🇲🇷 Mauritania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Sep
- 🇭🇺 Hungary · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Sep
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg · ESC Volunteering · 📅 04 Oct
- 🇭🇷 Croatia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 05 Oct
- 🇱🇻 Latvia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 19 Oct
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 31 Oct
- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 09 Nov
- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 31 Dec
What's in this batch:
20 ESC Volunteering Placements · 12 Countries
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
1. 🇧🇬 Creative Events and Community Impact, Bulgaria
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Organise creative events, environmental campaigns and outreach activities that promote sustainability and youth engagement, while building social media content and leading your own community initiatives. Open to applicants from 🇨🇾 🇬🇷 🇱🇹 🇲🇰 🇵🇹 and 26 more.
2. 🇮🇹 Daily Support for Unaccompanied Minors, Italy
📅 Deadline: 06 September 2026
Join the daily life of a residential centre for unaccompanied minors, supporting educators with recreational games, workshops and shared meals while building trusted relationships with young residents. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇨🇿 🇫🇮 🇭🇺 and 16 more.
3. 🇫🇷 Boarding School Life and Civic Engagement, France
📅 Deadline: 11 September 2026
Support student life at a boarding school, contributing to civic engagement, sustainability initiatives and community activities alongside student unions and eco delegates in a rural setting. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇿 🇪🇪 🇱🇹 and 16 more.
4. 🇮🇹 Podcast and Digital Content Creation, Italy
📅 Deadline: 13 September 2026
Plan, record and edit podcast episodes while creating social media and web content for European mobility projects, supporting local events and collaborating with international partner organisations. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇨🇿 🇬🇷 🇸🇰 and 9 more.
5. 🇪🇸 Digital Communication and Language Support, Spain
📅 Deadline: 13 September 2026
Help design engaging language classes and digital content for an international education team, supporting students preparing for European mobility experiences and creating multimedia resources with AI tools. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇪🇪 🇬🇪 🇲🇹 🇸🇪 and 11 more.
6. 🇮🇹 Birdwatching and Biodiversity Conservation, Italy
📅 Deadline: 14 September 2026
Live and work at a nature reserve supporting bird monitoring, habitat conservation and environmental education, with hands-on outdoor tasks and close contact with wildlife. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 🇱🇻 🇲🇹 and 24 more.
7. 🇪🇸 Youth Outreach and Creative Activities, Spain
📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026
Support youth information and outreach activities, coordinate language conversation groups, and help run theatre, radio, reading club and cultural activities for young people in the community. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇧🇬 🇨🇾 🇮🇸 🇱🇮 and 25 more.
8. 🇪🇸 Fair Trade and Solidarity Economy, Spain
📅 Deadline: 15 September 2026
Champion fair trade and responsible consumption through outreach events, a community shop and social media campaigns, while contributing to a personal project on solidarity economy and global inequality. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇬 🇨🇿 🇱🇹 🇳🇴 and 22 more.
9. 🇷🇴 Rural Youth Work and English Clubs, Romania
📅 Deadline: 20 September 2026
Lead non-formal sessions on environmental and civic education, run after-school English clubs, and support sports and cultural activities for children in a small mountain community in the Carpathians. Open to residents of Hungary.
10. 🇬🇪 Youth Work and Non Formal Education, Georgia
📅 Deadline: 20 September 2026
Support non-formal education activities for children and young people at a scout centre, helping organise local and international events while contributing to reception, gardening and community life through a learning-by-doing approach. Open to residents of France.
11. 🇸🇪 Permaculture and Ecovillage Living, Sweden
📅 Deadline: 22 September 2026
Join a self-sustaining ecovillage community and dive into permaculture gardening, low-tech construction and sustainable food production, learning practical green skills alongside an international group. Open to applicants from 🇦🇲 🇲🇦 🇷🇸 🇹🇳 🇺🇦 and 20 more.
12. 🇷🇴 Non Formal Education and Digital Skills, Romania
📅 Deadline: 28 September 2026
Design and lead creative non-formal education activities for young people, from digital skills workshops to sustainability and inclusion projects, while producing social media content that shares the team's story. Open to applicants from 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇮🇪 🇩🇪 and 22 more.
13. 🇲🇷 Health and Nutrition Humanitarian Support, Mauritania
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Support the monitoring and quality of health and nutrition programmes, contributing to community-based malnutrition treatment, data analysis and capacity building for local teams in a humanitarian field mission. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇬 🇨🇾 🇮🇸 🇱🇮 and 26 more.
14. 🇭🇺 Activity Leadership and English Teaching for Children, Hungary
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Lead creative, sports, music, STEM or English teaching activities for children, supporting educational and community programmes in a rural setting through hands-on, non-formal learning. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇦🇲 🇦🇿 🇧🇾 🇲🇦 and 28 more.
15. 🇱🇺 Costume Making for a Children's Play, Luxembourg
📅 Deadline: 04 October 2026
Bring costume designs to life for a children's play inspired by Noah's Ark, learning sewing, fabric cutting and prop making while exploring themes of inclusion and human rights through creative teamwork. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇮🇸 🇱🇮 🇲🇹 and 25 more.
16. 🇭🇷 Nature Heritage Restoration in a Wetland Park, Croatia
📅 Deadline: 05 October 2026
Restore traditional dry-stone walls and flooded meadows in a wetland nature park, learning UNESCO recognised heritage techniques while supporting biodiversity conservation and public awareness about the park's ecosystem. Open to applicants from 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇨🇿 🇱🇮 🇵🇱 and 19 more.
17. 🇱🇻 Creative Holiday Events for Children, Latvia
📅 Deadline: 19 October 2026
Join a creative volunteer team designing interactive performances, workshops and festive events for children from vulnerable backgrounds, blending storytelling, teamwork and community spirit. Open to applicants from 🇦🇲 🇧🇦 🇨🇾 🇬🇪 🇲🇰 and 26 more.
18. 🇮🇹 Vitality: 4 Months in Rural Monesiglio, Italy
📅 Deadline: 31 October 2026
Help bring new life to Italy's Alta Langa region. The Vitality project's big mission is to make this rural area more vibrant and visible, with a special focus on renovating and developing Casa Parco, a future cultural hub for artists, residents and community activities. Through hands-on work, you'll help turn an old building into a place where culture, creativity and community grow. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇵🇱 🇪🇸 and 25 more.
19. 🇪🇸 Youth Work and Community Activities, Spain
📅 Deadline: 09 November 2026
Become an active member of a youth team running language clubs, creative workshops and community activities, while contributing to social media content and promoting European opportunities. Open to applicants from 🇨🇿 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 🇷🇴 🇸🇰 and 12 more.
20. 🇮🇹 Inclusion Support for People with Disabilities and Kids, Italy
📅 Deadline: 31 December 2026
Support daily life at a residential and day center for people with disabilities and local kids, contributing to creative, recreational and inclusion-focused activities as part of a multicultural volunteer team. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇨🇾 🇳🇱 🇳🇴 and 9 more.
Across these 20 placements, Youth Works Hub count opportunities in 12 countries, from costume-making in Luxembourg to a humanitarian health mission in Mauritania. One is open now with no fixed deadline, so that could disappear first; the rest give you anywhere from a few weeks to several months to prepare, with the furthest deadline landing right at the end of December. Italy leads with five placements covering very different work, from unaccompanied minors and biodiversity conservation to a long-term cultural hub renovation, while Spain's four span digital communication, fair trade advocacy and general youth work.
Every one of these 20 placements is fully funded, so read the eligibility list on each carefully; several are restricted by residence or nationality. Take the time to write a motivation letter specific to the placement rather than a generic one, especially for the longer-term projects further down this list. At Youth Works Hub, we track opportunities like these as they open so you do not have to check multiple sources yourself. Check the deadlines, pick the ones that genuinely fit your interests and eligibility, and apply.
Not into volunteering this time? This week Youth Works Hub also lists fully funded Erasmus+ trainings for youth workers → Erasmus+ Opportunities
