Once awarded a Quality Label, organisations have access to the European Solidarity Corps Portal. In the Portal, organisations are invited to publish volunteering activities for which they are looking for participants. Organisations can also open a page on Youth Works Hub to publish opportunities and posts. There is a lot of competition but few good applications; most applications are rejected at the first screening because the applicant did not read the details of the call. Our guide on the ESC Quality Label explains the label.
Last updated: November 2026.
Where can you publish an ESC or Erasmus+ call?
You can publish a call in these places:
🌐 European Solidarity Corps Portal: in the Portal, organisations holding a Quality Label can advertise opportunities for volunteering activities.
🏠 Youth Works Hub organisations page: organisations can open a page on Youth Works Hub to publish opportunities and posts.
🔄 Youth Works Hub automatic listings: SALTO training courses, seminars and study visits and European Youth Portal ESC opportunities are pulled into the site automatically several times a day, and SALTO calls appear in the Erasmus+ projects category.
Youth Works Hub does not publish an opportunity without a direct application link or email, and does not publish listings with missing information. The Youth Works Hub rule does not cover what organisations publish themselves from their own pages: Youth Works Hub also checks those, but the content organisations share from their own profiles is entirely the responsibility of those organisations. Our guide on how to become a host organisation covers the ESC side, and our guide on how we verify opportunities explains our checks.
What should a call say so the right people apply?
Youth Works Hub does not publish an opportunity without a direct application link or email, and does not publish listings with missing information. Selected volunteers should be told every detail honestly, for example that they may live in a small rural area, that transport may be only a bicycle, or that housing may be mixed-gender. There is a lot of competition but few good applications; most applications are rejected at the first screening because the applicant did not read the details of the call. Many applicants look only at the country of the project and apply because the location appeals to them, without looking at the topic and the other details. In Erasmus+ Youth Exchanges, training courses, seminars and study visits, about one in ten calls asks participants for a participation fee; Youth Works Hub does not support this practice. A participation fee is never paid at application, only by selected participants, and in many cases the fee can be negotiated or even waived by the organisation. Our guides on ESC application mistakes and common application mistakes show what applicants get wrong, and our guide on how to spot fake Erasmus offers shows what makes a call look unsafe.
Should you contact candidates yourself?
The European Solidarity Corps Guide says that organisations must make use of the European Solidarity Corps Portal's database to search for potential participants. In the Portal, organisations holding a Quality Label can advertise opportunities for volunteering activities, search for registered candidates and contact them. Technically organisations can search the portal and contact candidates, but in practice this does not happen. Our guide on how to recruit volunteers covers the selection, and our guide on how to register on the ESC Portal shows the candidate's side.
Frequently asked questions
Does Youth Works Hub check our call?
Yes: Youth Works Hub does not publish an opportunity without a direct application link or email, and does not publish listings with missing information. Youth Works Hub also checks what organisations publish from their own pages, but the content organisations share from their own profiles is entirely the responsibility of those organisations. Our guide on how we verify opportunities explains our checks.
Can any organisation publish on the European Solidarity Corps Portal?
No: once awarded a Quality Label, organisations have access to the European Solidarity Corps Portal where they are invited to publish volunteering activities. Our guide on the ESC Quality Label explains how to get the label.
What should you do next?
Organisations can open a page on Youth Works Hub to publish opportunities and posts. The Youth Works Hub pages below cover the next steps.
Related pages: how to recruit volunteers · how to become a host organisation · the ESC Quality Label · how we verify opportunities
👉 Organisations: open your organisation page
