Thirty three European Solidarity Corps volunteering placements are open across ten countries, and four of those countries carry five placements each: Italy, Poland, Spain and Türkiye. Belgium and Portugal have four each, Romania two, and Croatia, Finland and France one apiece. Every placement covers travel, accommodation, food, insurance and monthly pocket money, so the cost of saying yes is your time rather than your savings. The work is genuinely varied: a para taekwondo training camp in Türkiye, olive groves reclaimed from organised crime in Italy, two regenerative farms on a Canary island, a Red Cross rotation across five Portuguese sites, and an art gallery in Poland built specifically for volunteers who have never been abroad before. At Youth Works Hub we publish the sending country list on every call, because ESC eligibility is narrower than most people expect and six of these thirty three are restricted to a single country. If the programme itself is new to you, what the European Solidarity Corps is is the short version.
Eight are worth opening before the rest. The Türkiye para taekwondo placement puts you behind a national squad heading into training camp, handling mats, gear and logistics, with no taekwondo background required. The Italian project supporting unaccompanied migrant minors combines that work with social farming on a community garden, olive groves taken back from organised crime and woodland inside a volcano park. Belgium is offering a caretaker duo placement where Dutch lessons count as working hours and a bicycle plus a regional bus pass come with the deal. The Polish art gallery placement is designed for people with fewer opportunities and no international experience, which means being new is the qualification rather than the obstacle. Portugal's Red Cross placement moves you between a food bank, a nursing home, a rehabilitation centre, a primary school and a permaculture farm. Croatia's four month placement in a small town is open to 62 countries, the widest list here by a distance. And the two Canary island farms teach syntropic and regenerative agriculture by having you milk goats, make cheese and build food forests, with a solar shower and a compost toilet included in the honesty.
Read the eligibility line first, every time. Six placements in this batch accept exactly one country: the Türkiye storytelling role takes only residents of France, one Belgian caretaker post and two other placements take only residents of Spain, the Spanish ecological garden takes only residents of France, and the Spanish social inclusion project takes only residents of Italy. One Türkiye placement has three seats and is looking for women volunteers. The Polish community centre placement particularly wants Ukrainian speakers because many of the children are Ukrainian. Everything else opens to between twelve and sixty two countries. You will also need an ESC Portal account before you can apply to any of these, so if that is still on your to do list, the step by step Portal guide is the place to start.
European Solidarity Corps volunteering is fully funded, and the phrase has a fixed meaning. According to the European Commission, the ESC covers travel to and from your project through distance band contributions, accommodation for the full duration, food or a food allowance, free group insurance, language support through the Online Language Support platform, and monthly pocket money paid directly to you. The pocket money rate is set per host country, which is why a placement in Finland and a placement in Romania do not pay the same daily amount. There is no participation fee at any stage of an ESC placement, and a project asking you for money is not a genuine ESC call. Some hosts add extras on top: the Belgian caretaker placements include a bicycle and a regional bus pass, and Dutch lessons are counted as working hours rather than personal time. What is and is not covered sets expectations properly before you commit.
In This Batch
1- 🇵🇱 Poland · Kindergarten · 📅 As soon as possible!
2- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · Communications · 📅 As soon as possible!
3- 🇧🇪 Belgium · Youth Centre Caretaking · 📅 As soon as possible!
4- 🇵🇱 Poland · Kindergarten · 📅 As soon as possible!
5- 🇧🇪 Belgium · Youth Centre Caretaking · 📅 As soon as possible!
6- 🇮🇹 Italy · Refugee Support · 📅 23 Sep
7- 🇵🇱 Poland · Arts and Events · 📅 23 Sep
8- 🇮🇹 Italy · Children and Families · 📅 24 Sep
9- 🇵🇹 Portugal · Elderly Care · 📅 26 Sep
10- 🇪🇸 Spain · Museums and Culture · 📅 27 Sep
11- 🇷🇴 Romania · Youth Work · 📅 27 Sep
12- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · Inclusive Sport · 📅 27 Sep
13- 🇷🇴 Romania · Digital and Media · 📅 27 Sep
14- 🇧🇪 Belgium · Children and Teenagers · 📅 28 Sep
15- 🇧🇪 Belgium · Migrant Inclusion · 📅 28 Sep
16- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · Arts and Media · 📅 30 Sep
17- 🇮🇹 Italy · Migrant Minors and Farming · 📅 30 Sep
18- 🇫🇮 Finland · Youth Centres · 📅 30 Sep
19- 🇵🇱 Poland · Community Centre · 📅 30 Sep
20- 🇫🇷 France · Preschool · 📅 30 Sep
21- 🇮🇹 Italy · Food Sustainability · 📅 30 Sep
22- 🇪🇸 Spain · Ecological Garden · 📅 30 Sep
23- 🇵🇱 Poland · Art Gallery · 📅 30 Sep
24- 🇭🇷 Croatia · Community and Teaching · 📅 30 Sep
25- 🇪🇸 Spain · Social Inclusion · 📅 01 Oct
26- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · Culture and Solidarity · 📅 01 Oct
27- 🇮🇹 Italy · Local Events · 📅 05 Oct
28- 🇵🇹 Portugal · Red Cross · 📅 07 Oct
29- 🇵🇹 Portugal · Conservation · 📅 10 Oct
30- 🇪🇸 Spain · Regenerative Farming · 📅 15 Nov
31- 🇪🇸 Spain · Permaculture · 📅 15 Nov
32- 🇵🇹 Portugal · Forest Conservation · 📅 20 Nov
33- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · Sport and Community · 📅 30 Nov
What's in this batch:
33 Fully Funded ESC Volunteering Placements · 10 Countries · Deadlines to 30 November
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
1. 🇵🇱 ESC Volunteering in Poland 🧸 Intercultural Activities at an Inclusive Kindergarten 🎨
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Games, art, time outdoors and language learning disguised as play. The teachers get an extra pair of hands, the children get a window onto another culture, and you get room to design your own workshops. Open to applicants from Ukraine, Sweden, Austria, Germany, Slovenia and 25 more.
2. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye ✍️ International Collaborations and Volunteer Storytelling 🌍
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Writing, interviewing and keeping partnerships alive across Europe and the Balkans. You will turn volunteers' stories into something people actually want to read, and help dig up the partners and funders behind the next projects. Open to residents of France only.
3. 🇧🇪 ESC Volunteering in Belgium 🏠 Caretaker Duo at a Youth Accommodation Center 🔧
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
You and one other volunteer run the place together: welcoming groups, check outs, small repairs, waste and grounds. Dutch lessons count as working hours, and a bicycle plus a regional bus pass come with the deal. Open to applicants from Austria, Ireland, Luxembourg, Croatia, Denmark and 23 more.
4. 🇵🇱 ESC Volunteering in Poland 🧸 Intercultural Learning and Language Play at a Kindergarten 🎨
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Small kids, big energy. You will back up the teachers, run games and art sessions, and slip English into the day through play, with plenty of room to bring your own culture and ideas into the room. Open to applicants from Greenland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Portugal and 25 more countries.
5. 🇧🇪 ESC Volunteering in Belgium 🏡 Caretaker at a Youth Accommodation Center 🧹
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Welcoming guest groups, handling check outs, fixing what needs fixing, keeping the grounds tidy and cooking for the crew now and then. When the school holidays hit, you jump straight into the youth camps. Open to residents of Spain only.
6. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🌍 Supporting Refugees and Asylum Seekers 🤝
📅 Deadline: 23 September 2026
Rebuilding a life in a new country takes paperwork, language, sport, health appointments and someone who shows up regularly. You will be part of the team that makes all of that happen, flat by flat. Open to applicants from Finland, Denmark, Romania, Belgium, Latvia and 18 more. Closes today.
7. 🇵🇱 ESC Volunteering in Poland 🎨 Art Creativity and Cultural Event Organization 🎭
📅 Deadline: 23 September 2026
One spot is still open in a crew that builds cultural, social and ecological events from scratch. Bring your own workshop idea, your talent or your strangest hobby, because that is exactly what they want to work with. Open to applicants from Iceland, Norway, Lithuania, Sweden, Austria and 20 more.
8. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 📚 Daily Educational Centers for Children and Families 🤝
📅 Deadline: 24 September 2026
School pickups, homework at the kitchen table, football in the yard and meals shared with everyone. You will stand next to educators supporting children whose families are going through their hardest stretch. Open to applicants from Albania, Ukraine, Poland, Czechia, Greece and 15 more.
9. 🇵🇹 ESC Volunteering in Portugal 👵 Inclusion and Diversity in Old Age at an Elderly Centre 🤝
📅 Deadline: 26 September 2026
Workshops, company and a hand to hold. You will help older people stay in the middle of things, and step in as a personal assistant when someone needs support getting through the day. Open to applicants from Hungary, Ireland, Malta, Bulgaria, Romania and 22 more.
10. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🖼️ Bringing Art and Culture Closer to Young People 🎲
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Join Youth and the Museum 2026, a collaboration bringing art and culture closer to young people through a board game based on a museum's collection, school talks, on-site activities and intercultural events in Spain. No previous art or culture experience needed, just genuine interest and openness to working with people. Open to applicants from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus and 22 more.
11. 🇷🇴 ESC Volunteering in Romania 🌍 Cultural Awareness and Critical Thinking With Teenagers 🎨
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Support a daily centre for disadvantaged teenagers, many from the Roma community, designing activities that build cultural awareness, sharpen critical thinking and help prevent addictions, alongside homework support and staff collaboration. Open to applicants from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark and 23 more.
12. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 🥋 Inclusive Sport at a Para Taekwondo Training Camp ♿
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
A national para taekwondo squad is heading into training camp and needs a crew behind it: mats and gear ready, logistics handled, athletes and coaches supported through every session. No taekwondo background required, just respect and curiosity. Open to applicants from Albania, Azerbaijan, Germany, Hungary, Norway and 29 more.
13. 🇷🇴 ESC Volunteering in Romania 💻 Social Media Content and Digital Activities for Children 📸
📅 Deadline: 27 September 2026
Create content and manage social media for a daily centre supporting disadvantaged children, mostly from the Roma community, promoting its activities online while proposing digitalisation activities and helping with homework. Open to applicants from Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark and 23 more.
14. 🇧🇪 ESC Volunteering in Belgium 🏡 Daily Support for Children and Teenagers 🤗
📅 Deadline: 28 September 2026
Support daily life for children and teenagers facing difficult family situations, from homework help and leisure activities to house and garden maintenance, while also joining weekly activities with a local youth house and disability network. Open to applicants from Austria, Czechia, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden and 24 more countries.
15. 🇧🇪 ESC Volunteering in Belgium 🖼️ Creative Inclusion for Newly Arrived Migrants 🌉
📅 Deadline: 28 September 2026
Help create meeting spaces between newly arrived people and local communities through creative workshops that showcase talents and know-how, using art and culture as tools for inclusion and dialogue. Open to applicants from Montenegro, North Macedonia, Finland, Malta, Slovakia and 24 more.
16. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 🎨 Community Support Through Arts and Media 🌍
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Support young people, refugees and earthquake-affected families through education, media production, arts and sports activities, while joining environmental initiatives and humanitarian community projects. Open to applicants from Belarus, Cyprus, Greenland, Moldova, Portugal and 28 more.
17. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🤝 Supporting Unaccompanied Migrant Minors and Social Farming 🌿
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Young people who arrived in a new country alone need someone steady beside them. You will share their daily routines and work the land together: a community garden, olive groves taken back from organised crime, woodland inside a volcano park. Open to applicants from Croatia, France, Denmark, Spain, Slovakia and 18 more.
18. 🇫🇮 ESC Volunteering in Finland 🧒 Long Term Youth Work at City Youth Centers 🎨
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Support long-term youth work at city youth centres, helping run leisure activities like cooking, arts and sports for young people after school and during holidays. Get involved in camps, events and small group activities guided by professional youth workers. Open to applicants from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, Slovakia and 21 more.
19. 🇵🇱 ESC Volunteering in Poland 🧒 Community Centre Activities for Children and Young People 🎨
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
When the school bell rings, the kids land here, and those hours are yours to fill: arts and crafts, sport, music, theatre, English, whatever you are good at. Ukrainian speakers are especially wanted, since many of the children come from Ukraine. Open to applicants from Ukraine, Georgia, Kosovo, Finland, Bulgaria and 45 more.
20. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 🧸 Supporting Young Children at a City Preschool 🎨
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Join a city-run preschool supporting young children through play, daily care and development activities. Help with meals, safety supervision and creative play while working closely with a small teaching team. Open to applicants from Belgium, Malta, Slovenia, Netherlands, Lithuania and 21 more.
21. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🍲 Food Sustainability Art and Community Life 🌱
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
What a meal really costs the planet, where it comes from and who profits: this project turns those questions into food workshops, tastings, concerts and language tandems in a cultural space that never sits still. Open to residents of Spain only.
22. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🌱 Ecological Garden and Intercultural Community Projects 🌍
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Help maintain an ecological garden and support educational and intercultural projects with a local association, from school garden initiatives to partner activities with animal shelters and training centres. Open to residents of France only.
23. 🇵🇱 ESC Volunteering in Poland 🎨 Creative and Cultural Team Work at an Art Gallery 🤝
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
An art gallery, eight volunteers from different countries and a pile of creative, promotional and organisational work to divide between you. It is designed for people with fewer opportunities and no international experience yet, so being new is the whole point. Open to applicants from Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, Lithuania, Czechia and 14 more.
24. 🇭🇷 ESC Volunteering in Croatia 🤝 Inclusion Solidarity and English Teaching in a Small Town 📚
📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026
Volunteer with a local association in Croatia for a meaningful 4-month placement combining community development, English teaching for local children, inclusive activities for elderly people and youth with fewer opportunities, and support for a sustainability initiative. Open to applicants from Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Aruba, Austria and 57 more countries, the widest eligibility list in this batch.
25. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🤝 Social Inclusion With Children Older People and Migrants 🎭
📅 Deadline: 1 October 2026
Support social inclusion work with children, elderly people and migrants through summer camp activities, companionship programmes and theatre-based inclusion projects. Also contribute to social media management, event organisation and your own personal initiative. Open to residents of Italy only.
26. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 🎨 Culture Arts and Solidarity With Disadvantaged Groups 🤝
📅 Deadline: 1 October 2026
Traditional crafts, calligraphy and marbling sit right next to solidarity work with orphans, refugees, older people and children with disabilities. Three places are open, they are looking for women volunteers, and it is open to residents of Spain only.
27. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🎉 Supporting Local Folk Events and Youth Opportunities 🌍
📅 Deadline: 5 October 2026
Folk festivals, street celebrations and all the happy chaos behind them. You help the local association pull it off, and spread the word about European opportunities to young people around town. Open to applicants from Finland, Estonia, Bulgaria, Malta, France and 23 more.
28. 🇵🇹 ESC Volunteering in Portugal ❤️ Community Support With the Portuguese Red Cross 🤝
📅 Deadline: 7 October 2026
Food bank logistics, a nursing home, a rehabilitation centre, a primary school and a permaculture farm. The Red Cross keeps all of it running and you move between them. Built for people who would rather be on their feet than behind a desk. Open to applicants from Croatia, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, Romania, Italy and 17 more.
29. 🇵🇹 ESC Volunteering in Portugal 🌿 Mediterranean Ecosystem Conservation and Environmental Education 🌍
📅 Deadline: 10 October 2026
A conservation centre for Mediterranean flora needs hands it can count on: sowing and transplanting in the nursery, planting out, clearing invasive species, and running environmental education for the people who live around it. Open to applicants from Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Czechia and 9 more only.
30. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🌱 Syntropic and Regenerative Agriculture on an Ecological Farm 🐐
📅 Deadline: 15 November 2026
Goats to milk, cheese to make, food forests to build and tired soil to bring back to life on a small farm on a Canary island. Everything is learned by doing, in a crew of volunteers from several countries. Open to applicants from Armenia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Portugal and 27 more.
31. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🌿 Permaculture and Regenerative Agriculture on a Canary Island Farm 🐝
📅 Deadline: 15 November 2026
Vegetables, fruit trees, sheep, chickens and bees, plus agroforestry systems you help build from nothing. A solar shower, a compost toilet and a team of six learning permaculture by actually living it. Open to applicants from Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Slovakia, Belgium and 28 more.
32. 🇵🇹 ESC Volunteering in Portugal 🌳 Mediterranean Forest Conservation and Plant Nursery Work 🌱
📅 Deadline: 20 November 2026
Seed collecting, sowing, transplanting and pulling invasive species out by the root. A nursery growing around a hundred native Mediterranean species runs on exactly this work, with environmental education filling the rest. Open to applicants from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Malta, Serbia, Slovenia and 11 more.
33. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye ⚽ Amateur Sport and Youth Participation in the Community 🏊
📅 Deadline: 30 November 2026
Swimming, tennis, tournaments and camps: sport becomes the excuse to get an entire neighbourhood moving together. You will help run the sessions, organise international youth events and pick up Turkish along the way. Open to applicants from Georgia, Ukraine, Belgium, Greece, Hungary and 11 more.
Ten countries, thirty three placements, and four of those countries tied at five each. Italy's five run from refugee support and daily educational centres to food sustainability, folk festivals and social farming on land reclaimed from organised crime. Poland's five are heavily weighted towards children: two kindergartens, a community centre where Ukrainian speakers are wanted, an art gallery for first time volunteers and a cultural events crew with one spot left. Spain's five split between museum education, an ecological garden, an inclusion project and two regenerative farms on a Canary island. Türkiye's five cover storytelling, arts and media with earthquake-affected families, a para taekwondo camp, traditional crafts and community sport. Belgium has two caretaker posts and two social inclusion placements, Portugal has elderly care, the Red Cross and two conservation projects, and Croatia, Finland, France and Romania fill in the rest.
The calendar is unusually lopsided, so plan around it. Five placements are marked as soon as possible, which means the host is filling the slot now. One closes today in Italy, along with a Polish placement that has a single spot left. Then 24, 26, 27 and 28 September each take one to four listings before nine placements close together on 30 September, which is nearly a third of the batch on a single day. After that it eases: two on 1 October, one each on 5, 7 and 10 October, two on 15 November, one on 20 November and one on 30 November. If your paperwork is not ready, the November farm placements in Spain and Portugal are your realistic targets, and they are also the ones that suit someone who wants to learn a practical skill rather than support a service.
Two things decide whether an application lands. The first is eligibility, and in this batch it is brutal: six placements accept a single country, so check that line before you write a word. The second is the motivation letter, where hosts are reading for someone who wants this work in this place rather than someone who wants to be abroad, and the ten most common ESC application mistakes covers the patterns that sink otherwise strong candidates. It is also worth knowing what lands in your account each month before you accept, because the rate is set per host country and the 2026 pocket money figures are published openly. Youth Works Hub lists the deadline, the host country and the full sending country list on every placement above, so check whether you qualify, open the one that matches what you actually want to do, and apply before the date passes.
Would you rather train for a week than volunteer for a year? Youth Works Hub also lists funded Erasmus+ training courses and youth exchanges across Europe → Erasmus+
