Youth Works Hub has 25 fully funded ESC volunteering projects open in Italy, Czechia, Serbia, Uganda and 12 more countries, with deadlines running from as soon as possible to 8 July 2027. The work includes supporting children and young people in Sandviken, community farming near Ponte Nizza, digital training in Kampala, social media and fundraising in Tserovani and human rights workshops in Sofia. Twenty of the 25 projects close in November 2026, one is open as soon as possible, one closes on 30 October, two close in December and the last on 8 July 2027. Our guide to what the European Solidarity Corps is explains how the programme works.
The profiles differ from project to project. Twenty-two of the 25 calls are for young people aged 18-30, while the media and event project in Sofia is for ages 18-27, the Quito project for ages 18-35 and the Sahun placement for young people aged 18 and over. The Thessaloniki project is open to women, the Bucharest placement is for young people who are not in employment, education or training, and the Rzeszów team is especially addressed to young people with fewer opportunities and little or no international experience. Language comes up too: good Spanish is essential in Malagón, the Krnov and Ostrava projects look for people keen to learn Czech, Havelange for the wish to learn French and Mignanego for willingness to learn Italian. Our guide on what makes an ideal ESC volunteer covers the profile in more detail.
Each call lists its own eligible countries, from 13 for the Sahun placement to 68 for the Sandviken placement. Our overview of eligible countries for Erasmus+ and ESC explains the general country rules.
Each call has its own angle:
🇸🇪 Sweden: an individual volunteering placement in Sandviken supporting and organising activities for children and young people.
🇮🇹 Italy: a 30-week placement in the Apennine hills near Ponte Nizza, looking after a vegetable garden, orchard and henhouse and joining craft workshops alongside autistic adults.
🇺🇬 Uganda: a 30-week placement in Kampala training youth workers and local communities in digital skills.
🇬🇪 Georgia: a 40-week placement in Tserovani strengthening the visibility and funding of organisations supporting internally displaced communities, from social media to fundraising campaigns.
🇹🇷 Türkiye: an eight-week placement in Gaziantep creating content in a radio and TV studio and taking part in humanitarian aid, psychosocial support and tree planting in a forest area.
🇮🇪 Ireland: a 26-week placement in a charity ReStore in Drogheda, with a chance to help with a home painting and decorating programme.
🇬🇷 Greece: a 34-week placement at a women's center in Thessaloniki, leading creative sessions for refugee, migrant and local women.
🇧🇬 Bulgaria: a 59-day volunteering team activity in Sofia promoting human rights, with interactive workshops in schools.
ESC volunteering is fully funded: flight, accommodation, food, pocket money and insurance are covered. According to Youth Works Hub's review, the stated lengths run from an eight-week placement in Gaziantep to a 52-week placement in Belgrade, while the Sofia and Rzeszów projects are volunteering team activities of 59 days and two months.
📅 Deadlines: As soon as possible (1) · 30 Oct (1) · 4 Nov (5) · 6 Nov (2) · 8 Nov (3) · 13 Nov (1) · 14 Nov (1) · 15 Nov (6) · 20 Nov (1) · 30 Nov (1) · 15 Dec (1) · 31 Dec (1) · 8 Jul 2027 (1)
🌍 Countries: 🇨🇿 Czechia (3) · 🇮🇹 Italy (3) · 🇧🇬 Bulgaria (2) · 🇷🇸 Serbia (2) · 🇪🇸 Spain (2) · 🇹🇷 Türkiye (2) · 🇺🇬 Uganda (2) · 🇧🇪 Belgium · 🇪🇨 Ecuador · 🇫🇷 France · 🇬🇪 Georgia · 🇬🇷 Greece · 🇮🇪 Ireland · 🇵🇱 Poland · 🇷🇴 Romania · 🇸🇪 Sweden
In This Batch
- 📅 As soon as possible! · 🇸🇪 Sweden · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 30 Oct · 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 4 Nov · 🇷🇸 Serbia · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 4 Nov · 🇺🇬 Uganda · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 4 Nov · 🇬🇪 Georgia · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 4 Nov · 🇷🇸 Serbia · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 4 Nov · 🇺🇬 Uganda · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 6 Nov · 🇧🇬 Bulgaria · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 6 Nov · 🇫🇷 France · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 8 Nov · 🇹🇷 Türkiye · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 8 Nov · 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 8 Nov · 🇧🇪 Belgium · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 13 Nov · 🇮🇪 Ireland · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 14 Nov · 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 15 Nov · 🇨🇿 Czechia · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 15 Nov · 🇬🇷 Greece · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 15 Nov · 🇪🇨 Ecuador · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 15 Nov · 🇮🇹 Italy · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 15 Nov · 🇷🇴 Romania · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 15 Nov · 🇨🇿 Czechia · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 20 Nov · 🇧🇬 Bulgaria · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 30 Nov · 🇵🇱 Poland · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 15 Dec · 🇹🇷 Türkiye · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 31 Dec · 🇨🇿 Czechia · ESC Volunteering
- 📅 8 Jul 2027 · 🇪🇸 Spain · ESC Volunteering
What's in this batch:
25 ESC Volunteering Projects · 16 Countries
🌱 ESC Volunteering Opportunities
1. 🇸🇪 ESC Volunteering in Sweden 🎭 Activity Center for Children and Young People 🌈
📅 Deadline: As soon as possible!
📍 Sandviken, Sweden · 👥 Aged 18-30
Sandviken hosts an individual volunteering placement where you support and organise activities for children and young people and help create a safe, inclusive and inspiring environment. It suits creative, responsible and open-minded people who enjoy working with children and are happy to take initiative in an international team. Open to applicants from 🇩🇿 🇪🇬 🇯🇴 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 and 63 more!
2. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🌾 Community Farming With Autistic Young Adults 🐝
📅 Deadline: 30 October 2026
📍 Ponte Nizza, Italy · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ 30 weeks
This 30-week individual volunteering placement in the Apennine hills near Ponte Nizza puts you in a small rural community, looking after a vegetable garden, orchard and henhouse, making honey, jams and preserves and joining craft workshops alongside autistic adults. It suits young people who love nature and animals, are happy with manual outdoor work and community life and feel comfortable in a quiet, isolated setting. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇨🇿 🇬🇷 🇵🇱 🇸🇪 and 18 more!
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3. 🇷🇸 ESC Volunteering in Serbia 🤲 Social Program Assistant for Vulnerable Families 📋
📅 Deadline: 4 November 2026
📍 Novi Pazar, Serbia · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ 40 weeks
A 40-week individual volunteering placement in Novi Pazar supports social inclusion work for vulnerable individuals and families, from planning and proposal writing to educational activities for at-risk youth, community outreach and humanitarian and administrative support. It is for empathetic, proactive people with an interest in social work, community development or humanitarian action. Open to applicants from 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 🇩🇰 🇫🇮 🇱🇻 and 32 more!
4. 🇺🇬 ESC Volunteering in Uganda 💻 Digital Empowerment Trainer for Youth and Communities 🚀
📅 Deadline: 4 November 2026
📍 Kampala, Uganda · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ 30 weeks
Kampala hosts a 30-week individual volunteering placement for young people who want to help close the digital divide by training youth workers and local communities in digital skills. Tasks include running sessions on digital communication, social media and ICT and evaluating the impact of each training. The ideal match is tech-savvy, creative and adaptable people with an interest in digital communications, marketing or education. Open to applicants from 🇦🇹 🇧🇪 🇭🇷 🇨🇾 🇪🇪 and 32 more!
5. 🇬🇪 ESC Volunteering in Georgia 📣 Communication Social Media and Fundraising for Displaced Communities 💡
📅 Deadline: 4 November 2026
📍 Tserovani, Georgia · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ 40 weeks
Tserovani is the base for a 40-week individual volunteering placement for young people who want to strengthen the visibility and funding of organisations supporting internally displaced communities. You will create content, manage social media, run fundraising campaigns and expand digital outreach through newsletters and press materials. Creative, proactive and digitally fluent people with an interest in communications, digital marketing or fundraising are welcome. Open to applicants from 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 🇬🇷 🇮🇪 🇱🇻 and 32 more!
6. 🇷🇸 ESC Volunteering in Serbia 📊 Project Assistant for Social Inclusion Initiatives 🤝
📅 Deadline: 4 November 2026
📍 Belgrade, Serbia · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ 52 weeks
Belgrade is the base for a 52-week individual volunteering placement that supports initiatives promoting social inclusion and dignity for vulnerable groups such as homeless people, ethnic minorities and care leavers. The tasks include project administration, document drafting, supporting proposal writing and joining field visits. The placement is for culturally sensitive team players eager to build project management skills. Open to applicants from 🇧🇪 🇪🇪 🇬🇷 🇮🇪 🇱🇹 and 32 more!
7. 🇺🇬 ESC Volunteering in Uganda 🧸 Inclusive Education and Care for Children With Special Needs 💛
📅 Deadline: 4 November 2026
📍 Kampala, Uganda · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ 30 weeks
In Kampala, a 30-week individual volunteering placement lets you support children with special needs through daily care, basic life skills, early childhood lessons, therapies, games and sports. You also visit families in the community and help promote the rights of children with disabilities. The ones sought are patient, empathetic and adaptable people with an interest in social work, education, psychology or special needs care. Open to applicants from 🇮🇹 🇱🇮 🇱🇹 🇱🇺 🇳🇱 and 32 more!
8. 🇧🇬 ESC Volunteering in Bulgaria 📸 Project Event Management Communication and Creative Media 🎬
📅 Deadline: 6 November 2026
📍 Sofia, Bulgaria · 👥 Aged 18-27 · ⏳ Eight months
Sofia is the base for an eight-month individual volunteering experience built around project and event management, social media, photography, videography and graphic design. Creative, proactive young people aged 18-27 who can communicate in English get mentorship and hands-on practice along the way. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇫🇷 🇮🇸 🇳🇱 🇫🇮 and 24 more!
9. 🇫🇷 ESC Volunteering in France 🌳 European Openness and Sustainable Development at a Middle School 🏫
📅 Deadline: 6 November 2026
📍 Égletons, France · 👥 Aged 18-30
In Égletons, a middle school with a strong European outlook welcomes an individual volunteer to co-facilitate workshops, share their culture in classes and contribute to projects around the Sustainable Development Goals. The team looks for autonomous, adaptable people with experience supervising groups of young people, confidence with IT tools and social media, and an interest in rural life. Open to applicants from 🇧🇪 🇨🇿 🇮🇪 🇱🇹 🇷🇴 and 17 more!
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10. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 🎙️ Media Education and Humanitarian Support in a Foundation Campus 🌳
📅 Deadline: 8 November 2026
📍 Gaziantep, Türkiye · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ Eight weeks
Gaziantep hosts an eight-week individual volunteering placement where you share your experience with local students, create content in a radio and TV studio and take part in humanitarian aid, psychosocial support and tree planting in a forest area. The ideal match is communicative, adaptable and tech-savvy people with a strong sense of social responsibility and respect for other cultures. Open to applicants from 🇦🇲 🇧🇪 🇩🇪 🇮🇸 🇱🇺 and 28 more!
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11. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain ♿ Supporting Inclusion and Leisure for People With Disabilities 🌟
📅 Deadline: 8 November 2026
📍 Malagón, Spain · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ 36 weeks
Malagón hosts a 36-week individual volunteering placement where you raise awareness of disability, help run leisure activities and support the work inclusion of people with disabilities. Motivation, a positive attitude and good Spanish are essential, and experience in social work or a strong interest in working with people with disabilities or youth is a plus. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇧🇪 🇬🇷 🇱🇮 🇵🇹 and 26 more!
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12. 🇧🇪 ESC Volunteering in Belgium 🏡 Supporting Children and Young People at a Care Home 🤝
📅 Deadline: 8 November 2026
📍 Havelange, Belgium · 👥 Aged 18-30
Havelange, in southern Belgium, is where two volunteers help care for children and teenagers who need extra support, with homework help, games and leisure activities, and join local activities with young people and people with mental disabilities. This individual volunteering placement is for motivated people with a caring attitude toward young people, an interest in active citizenship and the wish to learn French and live in a rural area. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇨🇾 🇮🇸 🇱🇹 🇸🇰 and 24 more!
13. 🇮🇪 ESC Volunteering in Ireland ♻️ Charity ReStore and Community Housing Support 🏠
📅 Deadline: 13 November 2026
📍 Drogheda, Ireland · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ 26 weeks
Drogheda hosts a 26-week individual volunteering placement in a charity ReStore, with customer service, handling and sorting donations, stock display, admin support and a chance to help with a home painting and decorating programme. It is a fit for flexible, team-minded people with good English who take initiative and enjoy working with people of all ages and abilities. Open to applicants from 🇫🇷 🇭🇺 🇮🇹 🇳🇴 🇸🇮 and 11 more!
14. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 👶 Nursery and Women's Community House Support 💜
📅 Deadline: 14 November 2026
📍 Mignanego, Italy · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ Six months
Mignanego hosts a six-month individual volunteering placement where you support educators at a nursery, join the daily life of a women's community house, help organise events and workshops and look after its library. The project fits best collaborative, flexible and caring volunteers who are creative, good at listening and willing to learn Italian. Open to applicants from 🇸🇰 🇳🇴 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 🇪🇸 and 19 more!
15. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 🎨 Creative Workshop for Adults With Disabilities 🤝
📅 Deadline: 15 November 2026
📍 Krnov, Czechia · 👥 Aged 18-30
Krnov hosts an individual volunteering placement where you support adults with mental and multiple disabilities in a socio-therapeutic workshop, from pottery, candle-making and soap-making to textile projects, gardening and cooking. You also prepare materials and workspaces, schedule activities and work alongside social workers. Creative, communicative and friendly people with a positive attitude and a willingness to learn Czech are welcome. Open to applicants from 🇭🇺 🇱🇻 🇪🇸 🇪🇪 🇫🇷 and 25 more!
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16. 🇬🇷 ESC Volunteering in Greece 🎨 Creative Activities at a Women Center for Refugee and Migrant Women 🧶
📅 Deadline: 15 November 2026
📍 Thessaloniki, Greece · 👥 Women aged 18-30 · ⏳ 34 weeks
Thessaloniki hosts a 34-week individual volunteering placement at a women's center, where you lead creative sessions such as drawing, painting, crafts, knitting and dancing for refugee, migrant and local women. The project is open to women aged 18-30 who feel comfortable in a multicultural setting. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇭🇺 🇱🇺 🇸🇪 🇪🇸 and 21 more!
17. 🇪🇨 ESC Volunteering in Ecuador 🏫 Supporting a School and Communities Through Education and Youth Circles 🤝
📅 Deadline: 15 November 2026
📍 Quito, Ecuador · 👥 Aged 18-35 · ⏳ 32 weeks
In Quito, this 32-week individual volunteering project has you supporting classroom learning, helping with quarterly workshops on topics like peace and digital literacy and facilitating youth circles on emotional well-being. It is open to young people aged 18-35 who want to work with children and marginalised communities. Open to applicants from 🇱🇮 🇮🇪 🇬🇷 🇦🇹 🇭🇷 and 32 more!
18. 🇮🇹 ESC Volunteering in Italy 🌳 Agroforestry Planting and a Community Nativity Scene 🎄
📅 Deadline: 15 November 2026
📍 Buccino, Italy · 👥 Aged 18-30
Buccino, a small village in inland Southern Italy, hosts a volunteering team that spends Christmas planting agroforestry lines, creating habitats for biodiversity, joining an olive harvest and building a nativity scene with the local community. It suits practical young people with artistic sensitivity and manual skills who enjoy crafts, working outdoors and rural life, and one place is reserved for a volunteer who handles communication. Open to applicants from 🇬🇱 🇲🇩 🇷🇴 🇸🇮 🇺🇦 and 31 more!
19. 🇷🇴 ESC Volunteering in Romania 📣 Youth Awareness Campaigns and Erasmus+ Projects 🌍
📅 Deadline: 15 November 2026
📍 Bucharest, Romania · 👥 Aged 18-30, not in employment, education or training
In Bucharest, you will plan and run awareness campaigns on tolerance, youth opportunities and active citizenship through events, school workshops, fundraising and content creation, and help run Erasmus+ projects from the inside. This individual volunteering placement is for young people who are not in employment, education or training, care about discrimination and youth participation and are comfortable in English. Open to applicants from 🇦🇲 🇦🇿 🇽🇰 🇲🇰 🇮🇹 and 36 more!
20. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 👵 Supporting Elderly People With Memory Disorders 💛
📅 Deadline: 15 November 2026
📍 Ostrava, Czechia · 👥 Aged 18-30
Ostrava offers an individual volunteering placement supporting elderly people with memory disorders through individual and group activities such as listening, reading, solving puzzles and meaningful conversations. Building trusting relationships is key, as many clients face disorientation or mobility, vision or hearing challenges. Open-hearted, proactive and empathetic people who are keen to learn Czech and work well in a team are welcome. Open to applicants from 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 🇮🇸 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 and 25 more!
21. 🇧🇬 ESC Volunteering in Bulgaria ✊ Challenge Hate and Promote Inclusion Through Human Rights Workshops 📣
📅 Deadline: 20 November 2026
📍 Sofia, Bulgaria · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ 59 days
Sofia hosts a 59-day volunteering team activity promoting human rights, diversity, inclusion and active citizenship. You will deliver interactive workshops in schools, create social media content and join public events and campaigns, exploring topics such as discrimination, stereotypes and hate speech. Open-minded, motivated and creative people are welcome, and previous experience is not required. Open to applicants from 🇦🇱 🇦🇲 🇬🇪 🇲🇩 🇲🇪 and 35 more!
22. 🇵🇱 ESC Volunteering in Poland 🎉 Youth Activities and Local Events for First Time Volunteers 🤝
📅 Deadline: 30 November 2026
📍 Rzeszów, Poland · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ Two months
Rzeszów hosts a two-month volunteering team activity where you support youth activities, workshops, school visits and local events and help with promotional and organisational tasks. It is especially addressed to young people with fewer opportunities and little or no international experience, and what matters most is motivation, openness and willingness to be part of an international team. Open to applicants from 🇧🇬 🇬🇱 🇲🇹 🇳🇴 🇸🇮 and 20 more!
23. 🇹🇷 ESC Volunteering in Türkiye 🎭 Youth Work Culture and Community Engagement 🌱
📅 Deadline: 15 December 2026
📍 Sorgun, Türkiye · 👥 Aged 18-30
Sorgun hosts an individual volunteering placement where you help run workshops, language clubs, sports events and awareness campaigns and create social media, photo and video content. You will work in an international team and build communication, teamwork, digital and intercultural skills, supported by Turkish lessons, mentoring and Youthpass guidance. Motivated, open-minded and responsible people who enjoy teamwork and cultural diversity are the ones wanted. Open to applicants from 🇦🇿 🇧🇬 🇲🇹 🇷🇸 🇺🇦 and 34 more!
24. 🇨🇿 ESC Volunteering in Czechia 🎨 Leisure and Educational Centre for Children and Young People ⚽
📅 Deadline: 31 December 2026
📍 Náchod, Czechia · 👥 Aged 18-30 · ⏳ 35 weeks
A 35-week individual volunteering placement in Náchod places you in a leisure and educational centre for children, young people and families, helping with after school activities, camps, workshops and community events and sharing an international perspective. The ideal match is open-minded, reliable and motivated volunteers who adapt to change and enjoy working with children of different ages. Open to applicants from 🇨🇾 🇬🇱 🇮🇸 🇱🇺 🇸🇪 and 25 more!
25. 🇪🇸 ESC Volunteering in Spain 🏔️ Nature and Inclusion in the Pyrenees With Adults With Disabilities 🤝
📅 Deadline: 8 July 2027
📍 Sahun, Spain · 👥 Aged 18 and over · ⏳ 26 weeks
Sahun in the Spanish Pyrenees hosts a 26-week individual volunteering placement supporting adults with disabilities and leisure activities for hospitality school students, with bikes for getting around. It welcomes responsible, empathetic young people aged 18 and over who enjoy intercultural experiences in a rural high mountain setting. Open to applicants from 🇧🇪 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇵🇹 and 8 more!
Frequently Asked Questions
What do these fully funded ESC projects cover?
European Solidarity Corps volunteering is fully funded, covering flight, accommodation, food, pocket money and insurance. The projects differ in length, from an eight-week placement in Gaziantep to a 52-week placement in Belgrade. Our guide on whether ESC volunteering is fully funded explains what the funding covers.
Who can apply for these 25 ESC projects?
Twenty-two of the 25 projects are for young people aged 18-30, while the Sofia media project is for ages 18-27, the Quito project for ages 18-35 and the Sahun placement for ages 18 and over. The Thessaloniki project is open to women, and each call lists between 13 and 68 eligible countries. Our guide to who can apply for Erasmus+ and ESC explains the general eligibility rules.
Which of these ESC deadlines comes first?
The Sandviken project in Sweden is open as soon as possible, and the Ponte Nizza project in Italy closes next, on 30 October 2026. After them, 20 projects close in November, five of them on 4 November and six on 15 November, followed by Sorgun on 15 December, Náchod on 31 December and Sahun last on 8 July 2027. Our guide on how to apply for ESC projects helps you prepare in time.
Grouped by theme, the batch falls a few ways. Work with children and young people runs through Sandviken, Havelange, Mignanego, Náchod, Kampala and Quito, while care and inclusion carry the projects with adults with disabilities in Krnov and Sahun, people with disabilities in Malagón, elderly people with memory disorders in Ostrava and vulnerable families and groups in Novi Pazar and Belgrade. Communication and media fill Tserovani, Sofia and Bucharest, and nature and community life shape the projects in Ponte Nizza, Buccino and Gaziantep. Our guide to writing a motivation letter for ESC and Erasmus+ projects helps you explain why a project fits you.
Each project here has its own page on Youth Works Hub, with the full description and the apply button, so pick the one that matches your skills and apply through its page. Our guide to your first steps as an ESC volunteer covers what happens once you are selected.
