Thirty-two fully funded European Solidarity Corps placements are open right now across twenty countries, closing between 22 September 2026 and 15 January 2027. At Youth Works Hub, we pulled together this week's full spread so you can compare every option in one place before deciding where to apply. A few stand out immediately: an off-grid community project in Greece rebuilding gardens with solar power and shared meals, a 59-day nursery-construction and reforestation mission in Tanzania, and a scout centre teambuilding role in Denmark that runs into January 2027, giving you months to prepare. Anyone weighing volunteering abroad fully funded should also check what the European Solidarity Corps actually is before diving into a specific project.
This batch leans heavily into three clear themes. The first is children's education and inclusion, running through five separate Romanian projects working mostly with Roma community children on sport, dance, handcrafts, music and storytelling, alongside disability-focused placements in Hungary, Lithuania and Uganda. The second is media, digital and content creation, spanning a media lab in Greece, social media work in Sweden, a digital inclusion project in Ghana and a STEM-and-media role in Croatia. The third is community and youth participation, running through Portugal, Georgia, Serbia, Poland, Belgium, Spain, Germany and Italy. Alongside those three, there is outdoor and environmental work in Denmark, France and Tanzania. Whether you are a first-time volunteer or looking for your second ESC placement, which countries can apply for Erasmus+ and ESC is worth checking before you commit to any single option here.
Every placement on this list is fully funded: travel is reimbursed by distance band, accommodation, food, insurance and a monthly pocket money allowance are covered throughout. Twenty-one of the thirty-two close by 30 September 2026, so those need attention first; the remaining eleven stretch out to 1 November, 17 November and, for the Denmark placement, all the way to 15 January 2027.
In This Batch
1- 🇬🇷 Greece · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
2- 🇵🇹 Portugal · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
3- 🇷🇴 Romania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
4- 🇫🇷 France · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
5- 🇵🇹 Portugal · ESC Volunteering · 📅 ASAP
6- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 22 Sep
7- 🇱🇹 Lithuania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 23 Sep
8- 🇬🇷 Greece · ESC Volunteering · 📅 24 Sep
9- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · ESC Volunteering · 📅 24 Sep
10- 🇭🇷 Croatia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 25 Sep
11- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · ESC Volunteering · 📅 25 Sep
12- 🇷🇴 Romania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 27 Sep
13- 🇸🇪 Sweden · ESC Volunteering · 📅 27 Sep
14- 🇷🇴 Romania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 27 Sep
15- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 27 Sep
16- 🇷🇴 Romania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 27 Sep
17- 🇷🇸 Serbia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 27 Sep
18- 🇵🇱 Poland · ESC Volunteering · 📅 27 Sep
19- 🇷🇸 Serbia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 27 Sep
20- 🇺🇬 Uganda · ESC Volunteering · 📅 27 Sep
21- 🇩🇪 Germany · ESC Volunteering · 📅 27 Sep
22- 🇧🇪 Belgium · ESC Volunteering · 📅 28 Sep
23- 🇬🇪 Georgia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Sep
24- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Sep
25- 🇬🇭 Ghana · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Sep
26- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Sep
27- 🇩🇪 Germany · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Sep
28- 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Sep
29- 🇹🇿 Tanzania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Sep
30- 🇭🇺 Hungary · ESC Volunteering · 📅 1 Nov
31- 🇷🇴 Romania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 17 Nov
32- 🇩🇰 Denmark · ESC Volunteering · 📅 15 Jan 2027
What's in this batch:
32 ESC Volunteering Placements · 20 Countries
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
1. 🇬🇷 Off Grid Community Natural Building and Gardening, Greece
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible
Join an off-grid community for up to a year, completing natural building and land projects, rebuilding garden fencing and sharing daily life through every season with solar energy and shared meals. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 and 6 more!
2. 🇵🇹 Youth Participation, Inclusion and Sustainable Communities, Portugal
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible
Collaborate with local young people and partner organisations on community initiatives, civic engagement and environmental awareness, helping develop creative responses to local challenges and strengthen youth participation. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇦🇲 🇦🇼 🇦🇹 🇦🇿 and 33 more!
3. 🇷🇴 Social Inclusion and Non Formal Education for Children, Romania
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible
Support educational and social activities for children in nurseries, kindergartens and schools, plus centres for adults with disabilities, through creative workshops, sports, arts and cultural exchange activities with a local NGO. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 and 21 more!
4. 🇫🇷 International Workcamps and Group Facilitation, France
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible
Join a welcoming centre hosting international workcamps and Erasmus+ youth exchanges, helping organise daily life, welcome newcomers, facilitate group activities and support intercultural exchange with long-term volunteers. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 21 more!
5. 🇵🇹 Inclusive Communication and Media Literacy With Youth, Portugal
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible
Support inclusive local youth programmes while developing communication materials, exploring international partnerships and building a toolkit of inclusive activities and workshops, with training in communication, journalism and media literacy along the way. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇦🇹 🇨🇼 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 and 11 more!
6. 🇮🇹 Supporting Unaccompanied Foreign Minors at a Residential Centre, Italy
📅 Deadline: 22 September 2026
Support educators at a residential center for unaccompanied minors, helping with daily life, building relationships through free play, organising recreational activities and looking after shared spaces and meals. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇿 and 16 more!
7. 🇱🇹 Sharing Daily Life With People With Disabilities, Lithuania
📅 Deadline: 23 September 2026
Join a community in Lithuania spending daily life alongside people with disabilities, supporting their everyday activities and taking part in creative, social and community activities together. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇿 and 24 more!
8. 🇬🇷 Media Lab, Digital Content and Composting Campaigns, Greece
📅 Deadline: 24 September 2026
Join a media lab producing digital content like articles, podcasts and social media campaigns on ecological sustainability, composting and waste management, while running media literacy workshops for local youth. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 21 more!
9. 🇹🇷 Supporting a National Taekwondo Championship, Türkiye
📅 Deadline: 24 September 2026
Join an international team of volunteers supporting the organisation of a major national sports championship, helping prepare competition areas, equipment and venues before travelling together to the event's final stage. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇦🇹 🇦🇿 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 and 29 more!
10. 🇭🇷 STEM Workshops, Media and Youth Work in the Community, Croatia
📅 Deadline: 25 September 2026
Support STEM workshops and community events for children and young people, creating promotional content, photos and videos while contributing to digital campaigns and Eurodesk information activities in a smaller Croatian city. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇦 🇧🇬 and 33 more!
11. 🇹🇷 Short Term Team Volunteering and Non Formal Education, Türkiye
📅 Deadline: 25 September 2026
Join a short-term volunteering team project in Türkiye focused on non-formal education, hosted by a local association from 15 October to 7 November 2026. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇿 and 16 more!
12. 🇷🇴 Sports, Dance and Movement Activities for Children, Romania
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Organise sports and dance activities for disadvantaged children, mostly from the Roma community, adapting to different skill levels and promoting teamwork, communication and inclusivity through movement. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 and 23 more!
13. 🇸🇪 Social Media Content Creation for Youth Centres, Sweden
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Help create engaging photos, videos and stories that showcase youth centre activities and inspire more young people to get involved, while also promoting international mobility opportunities like volunteering and exchanges. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 23 more!
14. 🇷🇴 Handcraft Activities and Fine Motor Skills for Children, Romania
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Plan handcraft activities that build fine motor skills, creativity and teamwork for disadvantaged children, mostly from the Roma community, weaving in themes of social inclusion and cultural awareness alongside homework support. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 and 23 more!
15. 🇪🇸 Volunteer Management and Community Youth Work, Spain
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Support volunteer management and community youth work in Spain, helping gather local groups' needs, promote European Solidarity Corps opportunities and strengthen the quality of youth services offered to the community. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 🇪🇪 and 18 more!
16. 🇷🇴 Music, Visual Arts and Storytelling for Children, Romania
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Engage disadvantaged children, mostly from the Roma community, in music, visual arts and storytelling through theatre-based activities, creative writing and rhythm and melody games, building a supportive space for shy participants. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 and 23 more!
17. 🇷🇸 Social Program Assistant for Inclusion and Community Outreach, Serbia
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Support the planning and delivery of social inclusion programmes for vulnerable individuals and families, combining community outreach, educational activities and administrative support with a local humanitarian organisation. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 26 more!
18. 🇵🇱 Halloween Community Event in a Youth Centre Garden, Poland
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Support the preparation of a Halloween-themed community event with local young people, creating decorations and activities together to transform a community garden into a creative, welcoming space. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇦🇹 🇧🇾 🇧🇪 🇧🇦 and 31 more!
19. 🇷🇸 Community Center Coordinator Supporting Vulnerable Groups, Serbia
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Help coordinate activities and volunteers at a community center focused on children, youth, ethnic minorities and other vulnerable groups, working with partners, gathering participant feedback and helping foster empowerment and social integration. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 26 more!
20. 🇺🇬 Inclusive Education and Care for Children With Special Needs, Uganda
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Support the daily care of children with special needs at a centre challenging stigma and neglect, helping build basic life skills, deliver early childhood development lessons, and conduct community visits that support families and promote inclusion. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 26 more!
21. 🇩🇪 International Youth Work Through Sports, Germany
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Join a sports youth organisation's Department of International Cooperation, supporting the planning and organisation of international projects, learning about EU youth funding and looking after young people visiting from abroad. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 21 more!
22. 🇧🇪 Homework Club and Youth Citizenship Programme, Belgium
📅 Deadline: 28 September 2026
Support homework help and creative workshops in theatre, music and cooking for children, while helping young people build active, critical citizenship through holiday camps and community participation projects. Open to applicants from 🇨🇾 🇪🇪 🇬🇷 🇮🇸 🇱🇮 and 24 more!
23. 🇬🇪 Youth Work and Empowerment for Young People, Georgia
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Lead youth empowerment programmes supporting at-risk young people through mentoring, workshops and community initiatives. Help raise awareness on domestic violence, build local youth clubs, and support digital literacy and capacity-building activities as part of a wider gender equality project. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇮🇸 🇱🇺 🇲🇹 🇷🇴 and 26 more!
24. 🇹🇷 Media Education and Humanitarian Support, Türkiye
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Step into a media education and community outreach project with access to a professional TV studio, radio station and creative arts facilities. Support local students through educational activities, take part in humanitarian aid distribution and psychosocial support for refugees and earthquake survivors, and join environmental initiatives like tree planting. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇲🇩 🇷🇸 🇲🇰 🇳🇴 and 32 more!
25. 🇬🇭 Digital Empowerment and Community Digital Inclusion, Ghana
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Support digital empowerment and community digital inclusion by managing social media, providing IT support, and delivering digital skills training for staff and rural communities. Help introduce simple digital tools, basic cybersecurity practices, and develop a lasting digital innovation project. Open to applicants from 🇧🇪 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇲🇰 🇸🇪 and 26 more!
26. 🇪🇸 Educational Role Model at a Vibrant Youth Centre, Spain
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Be an educational role model for children and young people at a vibrant youth centre, including those at risk of social exclusion. Take part in socio-educational activities in a dynamic, solidarity-driven environment. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇱🇻 🇵🇱 🇷🇴 and 17 more!
27. 🇩🇪 Sport and Health Oriented Kindergarten Activities, Germany
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Support pedagogues at a movement and health-oriented kindergarten in Germany, planning age-based exercises, thematic workshops and intercultural activities for children aged 1 to 5. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 21 more!
28. 🇮🇹 Comics Centre Workshops and Festival Support, Italy
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Help organise workshops at a leading comics centre, manage a comics library, support major festivals and website/social media promotion, while working with young refugees on comics based on their own stories. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 23 more!
29. 🇹🇿 Nursery Construction and Reforestation in a Natural Reserve, Tanzania
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Join a 59-day mission supporting a village community with the construction of a children's nursery, while contributing to a seed bank and reforestation project that strengthens the ecosystem around a natural reserve. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 26 more!
30. 🇭🇺 Inclusion Work With People With Fewer Opportunities, Hungary
📅 Deadline: 1 November 2026
Support inclusion work across settings like day centres for people with disabilities, schools for deaf children, special schools and care homes for older people, planning creative activities and building genuine connections. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇧🇬 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 and 27 more!
31. 🇷🇴 Environmental Campaigns and Digital Education With Children, Romania
📅 Deadline: 17 November 2026
Support non-formal education in schools and kindergartens, environmental campaigns and digital education activities with children and young people, while developing your own workshops and taking part in local festivals and community events. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇦🇿 🇨🇿 🇫🇷 🇬🇪 and 6 more!
32. 🇩🇰 Outdoor Life and Teambuilding at a Scout Centre, Denmark
📅 Deadline: 15 January 2027
Join a mixed team of Danish and international volunteers at an outdoor scout centre, working as a teambuilding instructor, helping with daily practical tasks and the kitchen, with room to run your own project on inclusion and green policies. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇨🇿 🇪🇪 🇫🇮 and 17 more!
With thirty-two placements across twenty countries, this is one of the widest ESC spreads Youth Works Hub has compiled in a single batch. Twenty-one placements close on or before 30 September 2026, so those deserve a decision this week; the Hungary role runs to 1 November, the Romania environmental placement to 17 November, and the Denmark scout centre placement stretches all the way to 15 January 2027 for anyone who wants more time to prepare. Every single one is fully funded volunteering abroad: no application fee, travel reimbursed by distance band, and accommodation, food, insurance and monthly pocket money covered for the full length of the placement.
Country-wise, Romania leads with five separate placements, mostly working with Roma community children on sport, arts, music and education. Türkiye, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal and Serbia each have two placements apiece, spanning media, disability support, youth centre work and humanitarian response. The remaining twelve countries, from Georgia to Uganda, each have one placement on the list. If you are applying for the first time, it is worth reading how ESC volunteering placements actually get funded so you know exactly what is and is not covered before you commit. Whichever of these thirty-two you choose, check your own country's eligibility, read the listing in full, and apply before the deadline closes.
Looking for more than volunteering? This week Youth Works Hub also lists Erasmus+ training courses, youth exchanges and mobility projects across Europe → Erasmus+ Opportunities
