Youth Works Hub read all 18 of these European Solidarity Corps listings in full, and each one is a fully funded volunteering placement in Europe, spread across 13 countries from Iceland, Estonia and Belgium to Austria, Croatia and Türkiye. Two have no application deadline, and the first dated deadline is 5 October 2026, while the rest close between 7 October and 30 November 2026. Most placements start between November 2026 and March 2027, and if you are wondering how long an ESC project lasts, this batch runs from a two-week festival team in Granada to a full year in Belgium and Germany.
A few placements stand out. In Granada, Spain, a volunteering team helps children and young people from vulnerable neighbourhoods prepare a social arts festival through theatre, movement, circus and the performing and visual arts. In Reykjavík, Iceland, three roles linked to SEEDS's camps and projects cover environment camps, photography camps and communications in the first half of 2027. In Croatia, volunteers join ornithological and nature conservation fieldwork across remote parts of the country, with around €510 a month for pocket money and food. In Stoumont, Belgium, an ecopedagogical farm and youth hostel in a protected area offers goat milking, cheese making and workcamp leadership, and in Bratislava, INEX Slovakia trains three volunteers to lead international summer workcamps. In Bohumín and Ostrava, Czechia, Slezská Diakonie runs two placements with children and adults with disabilities, and in Panciu, Romania, a day centre supports children and teenagers, most of them from the Roma community.
Some placements are open to very few countries, so check the list before you apply. The Istanbul placement is open only to applicants from France, and the Iceland placements only to applicants from Portugal, while the Bratislava placement is open only to volunteers from EU countries and the Fagotin farm in Stoumont is looking for volunteers aged 18 to 25. The French leisure centre in Cranves-Sales runs all its activities in French and lists a manual driving licence in its profile. It is worth checking which countries can take part in the ESC and then the list on each listing itself.
Funding
Every placement in this batch runs under the European Solidarity Corps, which funds accommodation, food or a food allowance, pocket money, insurance and travel. According to Youth Works Hub's review of the 18 listings, these are the amounts the hosts state:
🇦🇹 Gratkorn and Gleisdorf youth centres: €330 a month for food and €210 a month in pocket money, plus a single room in a student dormitory in Graz.
🇭🇷 Croatia: around €510 a month, made up of €10 a day in pocket money and €7 a day for food.
🇫🇷 Cranves-Sales: €8 a day in pocket money and a €256 food allowance, plus three meals a day on weekdays outside school holidays.
🇹🇷 Istanbul: €180 a month in pocket money and €180 a month for food.
🇵🇱 Opole: €5.40 a day for food and €6 a day in pocket money.
🇨🇿 Bohumín and Ostrava: 4,200 CZK (about €170) a month for food and €7 a day in pocket money.
🇪🇪 Võru: €5 a day in pocket money and €7 a day for food.
🇷🇴 Miercurea Ciuc: €150 a month for food and €120 a month in pocket money, plus a bicycle.
🇷🇴 Panciu: a monthly food allowance and €4 a day in pocket money.
Two placements have no application deadline, one closes on each of 5, 7, 10, 12, 15, 16 and 17 October, three close on 25 October, two on 30 October, one on 1 November, two on 15 November and one on 30 November 2026.
In This Batch
1- 🇹🇷 Türkiye · ESC Volunteering · 📅 As soon as possible!
2- 🇪🇪 Estonia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 As soon as possible!
3- 🇧🇪 Belgium · ESC Volunteering · 📅 5 Oct
4- 🇷🇴 Romania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 7 Oct
5- 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering · 📅 10 Oct
6- 🇦🇹 Austria · ESC Volunteering · 📅 12 Oct
7- 🇮🇸 Iceland · ESC Volunteering · 📅 15 Oct
8- 🇵🇱 Poland · ESC Volunteering · 📅 16 Oct
9- 🇩🇪 Germany · ESC Volunteering · 📅 17 Oct
10- 🇫🇷 France · ESC Volunteering · 📅 25 Oct
11- 🇷🇴 Romania · ESC Volunteering · 📅 25 Oct
12- 🇭🇷 Croatia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 25 Oct
13- 🇧🇪 Belgium · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Oct
14- 🇫🇷 France · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Oct
15- 🇧🇪 Belgium · ESC Volunteering · 📅 1 Nov
16- 🇨🇿 Czechia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 15 Nov
17- 🇨🇿 Czechia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 15 Nov
18- 🇸🇰 Slovakia · ESC Volunteering · 📅 30 Nov
What's in this batch:
18 Fully Funded ESC Placements · 13 Countries · 2 With No Application Deadline
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
1. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 📱 Social Media and European Project Management 🎬
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
This placement in Başakşehir, Istanbul, from 30 November 2026 to 30 April 2027, is looking for two volunteers for tasks that depend on each volunteer's profile: social media content production and photo and video editing with tools such as Photoshop, Canva and Premiere Pro, European and international project management and administration, and field activities such as conversation clubs and cultural exchange events, with a willingness to work with the community. Volunteers live in shared accommodation, receive €180 a month in pocket money and €180 a month for food, have their return travel and health and repatriation insurance covered, and get one hour of Turkish lessons a week. The profile asks for applicants aged 18 to 30 with basic English and experience in social media management, graphic design, website management and video editing. Only French nationals or people living in France with a valid residence permit can apply, applicants from the PACA region have priority, and because of the number of applications, only people selected for an interview are contacted; if you hear nothing within a month, you should consider that you were not selected.
2. 🇪🇪 ESC Volunteering in Estonia 🧸 Early Childhood Education at a Municipal Kindergarten 🌲
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
Võru Kindergarten Tähesära is a municipal kindergarten in the small town of Võru in South Estonia, an area known for its lakes and forests. The volunteer supports teachers in their daily work with young children, helping with games, creative activities, outdoor play and routines such as meals and dressing, and is encouraged to bring their own ideas, games and cultural background into the activities. The placement runs from 1 November 2026 to 30 June 2027. Volunteers live near the host organisation in a shared apartment or hostel with a private bedroom and a shared kitchen and bathroom, receive €5 a day in pocket money and €7 a day for food, have international travel reimbursed within a set budget and task-related local transport fully covered, and join the Estonian National Agency's training cycle as well as hikes and other activities organised by the coordinating organisation. The profile asks for a passion for working with young children, along with tolerance and patience with children who have special needs.
3. 🇧🇪 ESC Volunteering in Belgium 🔨 International Workcamps and Youth Volunteering Support 🤝
📅 Deadline: 5 October 2026
Each year, the Compagnons Bâtisseurs (CBB) welcome two European Solidarity Corps volunteers into their international team, one in Marche-en-Famenne and one in Liège, from 1 February 2027 to 31 January 2028. Volunteers help prepare, run and follow up local volunteering projects such as workcamps, youth exchanges and environmental days, sometimes with other local youth and social organisations, attend staff meetings, general assemblies and team-building days, and help build a bond between the more than 25 volunteers CBB supports in the south of Belgium. They have a private room in a fully equipped shared house in the centre of Marche-en-Famenne with six other ESC volunteers, receive a monthly food allowance and pocket money, and take part in the French-speaking National Agency's seminars, CBB's residential weekends and its training for international leaders. Participation is free of charge except for an exceptional contribution to travel costs. CBB expects volunteers to be ready for office work as well as leading non-formal education activities and some manual work.
4. 🇷🇴 ESC Volunteering in Romania 🎭 Cultural Awareness and Exchange With Teenagers 🌍
📅 Deadline: 7 October 2026
The Lumea Lui Pinocchio day centre in Panciu supports disadvantaged children and teenagers with a safe space, non-formal education activities, homework help and a warm lunch and snack every day, and most of the children come from the Roma community. From 20 October to 15 December 2026, the volunteer designs activities that develop teenagers' cultural awareness and critical thinking, promote cultural exchange in the community and help prevent addictions, assists children with their homework and works alongside staff and other volunteers. Volunteers live in an apartment very close to the centre, with a maximum of two people per room, and receive a monthly food allowance and €4 in pocket money for each day of service. The host is looking for young people with a strong interest in the rights of the most disadvantaged groups and a passion for digitalisation and volunteering.
5. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🎭 Social Arts Festival for Children and Young People 🎪
📅 Deadline: 10 October 2026
Fundación Escuela de Solidaridad (FES) is looking for creative volunteers for a volunteering team in Granada from 8 to 24 November 2026, working with children and young people aged 3 to 18, mainly from vulnerable neighbourhoods with limited access to culture and the arts, to prepare a social arts festival that grows out of months of workshops. Volunteers prepare and run art workshops, support rehearsals and productions in theatre, movement, circus and performing and visual arts, set up spaces and shows, create social media content and document the process. They live in a shared house in the FES community in Sierra Elvira, a village 9 km from Granada, with up to two people per room, and all meals are provided. The host especially welcomes profiles in circus, theatre, performance, dance, music and visual arts, and you do not need to be a professional artist, but the profile includes experience working with children and/or young people. Applicants from 18 countries can apply.
6. 🇦🇹 ESC Volunteering in Austria 🏓 Open Youth Centre Work and Social Support 🍳
📅 Deadline: 12 October 2026
ARENA in Gratkorn and AUSZEIT in Gleisdorf are open youth centres where young people meet, relax and spend their free time, with games, sports, cooking, creative workshops, events and excursions, and youth workers available for counselling and support. From 1 November 2026 to 30 October 2027, the volunteer supports the daily work and organises activities such as cooking, crafts, sports and football, helps with homework and assists with social media. Volunteers live in a single room in a shared flat in a student dormitory in Graz, have public transport to the youth centre covered, and receive €330 a month for food and €210 a month in pocket money, with travel costs covered, a mentor, team meetings and supervision, the Austrian National Agency's trainings and a German course. Applications must be submitted through logo.at/esc, and applicants from 37 countries can apply.
7. 🇮🇸 ESC Volunteering in Iceland 🌋 Environment Photography and Communications Camps 📷
📅 Deadline: 15 October 2026
This call offers volunteering opportunities in Iceland from January to June 2027, with activity dates on the listing from 16 February to 24 June 2027 in Reykjavík: an Environment Camp Leader who plans, organises and delivers SEEDS' nature and learning camps, a Photography Camp Leader who coordinates and takes part in international camps on photography and environmental awareness, coordinates arts and culture projects in Reykjavík and takes part in social solidarity projects, and a Communications and PR Volunteer for admin, marketing and publicity, who also takes part in local social and cultural projects. All costs are covered, including accommodation, health insurance, pocket money and food money, and travel between Portugal and Iceland is reimbursed. Volunteers can join the on-arrival and mid-term trainings, task-specific training and language training. The call is aimed at young people from Portugal aged 18 to 30 who are fully available for the dates, no previous experience is needed, and the listing states that basic English is not required.
8. 🇵🇱 ESC Volunteering in Poland 💛 Empathy and Creativity in Alternative Education 🎨
📅 Deadline: 16 October 2026
Fundacja FREE, the Foundation for the Development of Empathetic Education in Opole, supports children and young people in home education, including those with special educational needs and disabilities, through hands-on activities, creative workshops and specialist support in small groups of up to eight children aged 7 to 15. The core tasks a volunteer might do include supporting children and educators during thematic workshops, leading activities during common room time with an educator present, having one-to-one conversations with children in their mother tongue and helping organise events, with optional tasks such as running their own activities, sharing their culture and creating social media content. The placement lasts 34 weeks within the period 28 October 2026 to 28 June 2027, about six hours a day, five days a week. Volunteers share a three-person room, receive €5.40 a day for food and €6 a day in pocket money, have travel reimbursed within EU limits and health insurance provided, and join the National Agency's trainings. A communicative level of English is required, and other European languages are a big plus.
9. 🇩🇪 ESC Volunteering in Germany 🏢 Youth Office Projects and Local Community Work 🎯
📅 Deadline: 17 October 2026
The host organisation in Esslingen is a contact point for children and young people in the city, improving their living conditions, representing their interests and advising associations, groups and volunteers. From 1 March 2027 to 29 February 2028, the volunteer promotes local projects among children and young people, helps with materials, organisation and planning, has the possibility to take part in all phases of the activities and can propose their own ideas for intercultural exchange. Volunteers live with other volunteers on the top floor of the association's building, sharing a kitchen, bathroom and common room, and get a public transport card for free travel by tram, train and bus, along with language training, regular reflection talks and the on-arrival and mid-term trainings. The profile includes motivation to work in an office and with children, computer skills, good English, some physical work such as carrying boxes, and a driving licence and basic German are preferred. Applicants from 68 countries can apply.
10. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 🧒 Community Life and Environmental Awareness With Children 🌻
📅 Deadline: 25 October 2026
The La Bergue leisure centre in Cranves-Sales welcomes children aged 3 to 14 for leisure activities on Wednesdays, between 110 and 120 children, and during school holidays, 250 children in summer. From 18 January to 17 September 2027, the volunteer involves the children in a civic-minded approach through themes that change across the year: cultural discovery, action against discrimination and racism, promoting the mini-farm and sustainable practices, and living together and team spirit. Volunteers have free accommodation in a two-bedroom shared apartment with another volunteer, receive €8 a day in pocket money and a €256 food allowance, are fed three times a day except at weekends and during school holidays, and have a bike, with the centre's car available for their own time depending on availability. Volunteers take part in two seminars, can attend French classes, have the opportunity to take the BAFA youth leader diploma and can take a first-aid course. All activities happen in French, and the profile lists a manual driving licence.
11. 🇷🇴 ESC Volunteering in Romania 🤝 Community Inclusion and Active Citizenship Through Non Formal Education 🎭
📅 Deadline: 25 October 2026
This Community Inclusion project in Miercurea Ciuc promotes social inclusion, active citizenship and solidarity through non-formal education with young people and local communities, with volunteers supporting the community, organising cultural and educational events and fostering intercultural dialogue. The host is looking for the final volunteer to join two volunteers who are already in the country, from 1 November 2026 to 10 June 2027, someone flexible, responsible and able to commit to the full project. Volunteers live in fully furnished accommodation in the town with a maximum of two people per room, receive €150 a month for food and €120 a month in pocket money, get a bicycle for local transport, have international travel reimbursed under ESC rules, and receive Hungarian or Romanian language support and the Romanian National Agency's trainings. Applicants from 23 countries can apply.
12. 🇭🇷 ESC Volunteering in Croatia 🐦 Nature Conservation Fieldwork and Awareness Raising 🌿
📅 Deadline: 25 October 2026
The host is looking for volunteers for long-term conservation work and awareness raising in Croatia from 1 March to 19 November 2027, with ornithological and other nature conservation fieldwork in hidden landscapes, public education and awareness activities, educational and promotional content, and office tasks such as data processing, camera trap analysis or graphic design. Volunteers have a shared apartment in Zagreb for the whole period plus accommodation at each fieldwork location, many of them isolated or in very small communities, have all project travel costs reimbursed and receive around €510 a month, made up of €10 a day in pocket money and €7 a day for food. The profile is 18 to 30, from an EU Member State or another eligible country, reasonably fit for rough, rocky and steep terrain, happy with irregular hours and able to communicate in English or Croatian, and a European driving licence is desirable but not essential. One of the three positions may go to a volunteer from Croatia.
13. 🇧🇪 ESC Volunteering in Belgium ☮️ Peace Education and International Volunteering Exchanges 🌍
📅 Deadline: 30 October 2026
SCI Belgium is an NGO and youth organisation that promotes peace, intercultural understanding, solidarity, inclusion, social justice and ecology through voluntary projects and educational work. From 1 February to 30 November 2027, it hosts two ESC volunteers, one in its Brussels office and one in Liège, who help organise and take part in workcamps and one-day volunteering activities, run awareness-raising sessions in schools, join activist groups and support communication and promotion. Volunteers live in a shared student or community flat with their own room and a kitchen, receive pocket money and an allowance for food and local transport, and take part in camp leader, pedagogical tool and facilitation trainings and online French courses. No specific skills are required, but candidates should be eager to improve their French, and the Liège volunteer should also be interested in communication work such as social media, campaigns and photo and video.
14. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 🎶 Activities and Companionship at a Retirement Home 🤝
📅 Deadline: 30 October 2026
This placement in a retirement home in Bischwiller, close to Strasbourg, runs from 12 October 2026 to 31 July 2027, and the project hosts two volunteers each year. The volunteer creates and joins activities such as music, creative workshops, games, themed evenings, movie nights, DIY and gymnastics, goes with residents on outings and to appointments, spends time talking and reading the newspaper with them, and can suggest projects based on their own interests. Each volunteer has a single studio apartment, food is provided by the placement, and volunteers take part in three seminars from the lead organisation and two from the ESC agency. No prior experience is needed beyond being motivated to work with elderly people, and basic French is a plus.
15. 🇧🇪 ESC Volunteering in Belgium 🐐 Educational Farm and Youth Hostel in a Rural Area 🌳
📅 Deadline: 1 November 2026
The Fagotin is an ecopedagogical centre and farm in a protected area in Stoumont, in the south of Belgium, with its own 51-bed youth hostel. For 10 months, from 1 February to 30 November 2027, volunteers take part in all its activities: social tourism, from communication tools and welcoming visitors to helping the kitchen team and preparing rooms, the educational farm, with animal care, goat milking and cheese making, and youth work, including European projects and leading a workcamp, with campleader training provided. The listing's accommodation section describes the Fagotin's own youth hostel, with single beds in each room and shared bathrooms and common spaces, food expenses are covered with meals Monday to Friday and kitchen access at weekends, and travel to and from the project is covered, although public transport in this remote village is limited. The Fagotin is looking for two volunteers aged 18 to 25 with a good level of English, motivated to live in a rural area, and basic French is an asset but not compulsory.
16. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 🧩 Social Activation Services for Children With Disabilities 💛
📅 Deadline: 15 November 2026
SALOME in Bohumín is a centre for children and young people up to 26 years old with mental, physical and combined disabilities, including autism and communication disorders, offering social activation through development, leisure, educational and training activities. From 15 January to 31 August 2027, the volunteer works directly with the centre's users on activities tailored to each person's needs, such as motor skills, daily living skills and social interaction, and helps staff prepare tools and materials. Volunteers have a private bedroom in a shared flat, 4,200 CZK (about €170) a month for food and €7 a day in pocket money, and flights and daily commuting covered, with training seminars and a coordinator and supervisor from Slezská Diakonie. The profile is 18 to 30, and being proactive with the centre's users and in learning Czech, creativity, empathy and calm around young people are preferred traits.
17. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 🌈 Daycare Centre Activities for Adults With Disabilities 🧩
📅 Deadline: 15 November 2026
Duhový dům in Ostrava is a centre for adults with mental, physical and combined disabilities that aims to help its service users keep or develop their skills and become as independent as possible. From 15 January to 31 August 2027, the volunteer works directly with the service users in group activities, such as morning talks and warm-ups, and in individual activities focused on movement and cognitive skills, such as puzzles, writing practice, painting, counting and memory development. Volunteers have a private bedroom in a shared flat, 4,200 CZK (about €170) a month for food and €7 a day in pocket money, and flights and daily commuting covered, with training seminars and a coordinator and supervisor from Slezská Diakonie. The profile is 18 to 30, patient, empathetic and proactive in learning Czech, and playing a musical instrument or being creative is an advantage.
18. 🇸🇰 ESC Volunteering in Slovakia 🏕️ Leading Volunteer Workcamps and Educational Activities 📣
📅 Deadline: 30 November 2026
INEX Slovakia in Bratislava is looking for three young people to join its volunteering, educational and promotional team from 1 February to 30 December 2027. Volunteers help organise activities in the office, are trained to lead a two-week international workcamp in Slovakia in summer, choosing between free-time activities for seniors or children, an eco village or castle reconstruction, and also organise meetings for young people, create their own educational workshops, promote volunteering in schools and on social media and help with office work. They live together in a fully equipped flat five minutes on foot from the office, each with a private room, receive food money and pocket money at the start of each month, and take part in the Slovak National Agency's trainings and INEX's Step Up and Lead and Lead It Up programmes on volunteer management. The project is open only to volunteers from EU countries.
If you love the outdoors, the nature conservation fieldwork in Croatia, the Fagotin farm in Stoumont and the SEEDS camps in Iceland put you in nature, while workcamps play a big part in the INEX, CBB and SCI placements in Slovakia and Belgium. Children and young people are the focus in Granada, Võru, Opole, Panciu, Cranves-Sales, Esslingen and the youth centres in Gratkorn and Gleisdorf, care and companionship come first in Bischwiller, Bohumín and Ostrava, community events and intercultural dialogue fill the Miercurea Ciuc placement, and social media and European project management the Istanbul one. Allowances vary a lot from one host to the next, so read up on how much pocket money you get on ESC and compare the amounts in each listing. Check the eligible countries and the profile first, because three of these placements are limited to a single country or to volunteers from EU countries.
The CBB workcamp placement in Belgium closes first, on 5 October 2026, followed by Panciu on 7 October and Granada on 10 October, so those three need quick action. The Austrian youth centre, Iceland, Opole and Esslingen placements close between 12 and 17 October, three placements close on 25 October, and the rest run until 30 October, 1 November, 15 November and 30 November 2026, and the Istanbul and Võru placements have no application deadline. Take time to prepare a motivation letter for your ESC application, check the conditions on each listing, then open the link and apply. Find more fully funded volunteering placements like these, explained in plain language, on Youth Works Hub.
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