Ajankohtaisia EU-tuettuja vapaaehtoispaikkoja Euroopassa

23.5.2025

Kenelle? Euroopan Solidaarisuusjoukot on ohjelma, joka sopii kaikille 18-30 -vuotiaille, jotka ovat kiinnostuneita oppimaan ja toimimaan vapaaehtoisena paikallisen yhteisön hyväksi toisessa Euroopan maassa. Vapaaehtoistyötehtäviin ei vaadita erityistaitoja tai koulutusta, mutta omia tietoja ja taitoja pääsee yleensä hyödyntämään. Euroopan Unionin tukema ohjelma on erinomainen mahdollisuus lähteä toiseen Euroopan maahan hankkimaan työkokemusta, kielitaitoa ja saamaan uusia kokemuksia. Ohjelmaan kuuluu majoitus, ruoka, matkatuki, taskuraha, vakuutus, kieliopetusta sekä valmennus ennen lähtöä ja jakson aikana. Ohjelman kesto on yleensä 2-12 kuukautta, suurin osa vapaaehtoispaikoista haluaa vapaaehtoisen 6-12 kuukauddeksi.

Euroopan Solidaarisuusjoukkojen lyhytkestoiset (alle 2 kuukautta) yksilöprojektit on tarkoitettu nuorille, joilla on erityistä tukea oikeuttavia haasteita kuten.terveysongelmat, oppimisvaikeudet, vähemmistöryhmään kuuluminen ja/tai taloudelliset, sosiaaliset tai maantieteelliset haasteet. Yleensä noin kaksi viikkoa kestävät Euroopan solidaarisuusjoukkojen vapaaehtoistiimit ovat sen sijaan avoimia kaikille 18-30 -vuotiaille, myös aiemmin Euroopan solidaarisuujoukkoihin osallistuneille.

Annamme mielellämme lisätietoja, puh. 044 416 5209 (myös Whatsapp)

Volunteer five or six months in Latvia starting from July 2025

Grow space for a glowing place

Ready to live differently and make a real impact?

Join Radi Vidi Pats in Liepāja, Latvia as a long-term volunteer!

Radi Vidi Pats is a community-driven organisation dedicated to sustainability, social inclusion, and non-formal education, empowering people through hands-on projects, creative activism, and environmental initiatives.

What You'll Do: As a volunteer, you will actively contribute to meaningful projects, creating community through hands-on initiatives — from running social spaces like the Bike Kitchen and Swap-Shop to developing a community garden and collaborating with other organisations on environmental projects.

Dates: 5–6 months | Starting July 2025

Location: Liepāja, Latvia

How to apply: Send your CV + motivation letter to: evs@radividipats.lv or apply via EU Youth Portal.

Deadline: ASAP

6-month ESC volunteering in Pavia, Italy starting September 2025

Activity Description
In Babele, activities are equally divided between learning and volunteering, following a learning-by-doing approach. Volunteers will welcome people to the reuse space, help organize it when needed, and lead environmental workshops for children. They will also support back-office tasks, assist in European projects and local initiatives, and help young people with homework and studying.
These activities promote personal growth, environmental awareness, intercultural understanding, and community engagement.

Values
Babele promotes equal opportunities, intercultural understanding, solidarity, cooperation, and environmentally friendly practices. These values are central to Babele's mission of building a more inclusive and open society.

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers will be provided with shared accommodation close to the city center of Pavia. They will receive 330 euros/month (pocket money + food allowance) and local transportation arrangements will be provided for commuting to activity sites.

Training during the opportunity
Volunteers will benefit from both On Arrival Training (organized by the Italian National Agency) and task-specific training provided by the hosting organization. This dual support ensures volunteers are well-equipped and feel empowered in their roles.

Participant Profile
We are looking for 2 motivated volunteers aged 18–30. No prior experience or qualifications are required—only a strong motivation to participate!
Selection is based on motivation only, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, ethnic background, or financial situation. A motivational letter will be requested as part of the application.

Infopack:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Lr_U4_WtF-NMJnOy6cqCU2V0NX7AU9CM/view?usp=sharing

To apply, please use the following Google Form:
https://forms.gle/eE4mi8E3TPJDxP5G7

Many volunteering opportunities in France from July or September 2025!

Animation and intercultural exchange in a French high school

The Domaine de la Saulsaie MFR (Maison Familiale et Rurale) is an associative establishment that belongs to the movement of Maisons Familiales et Rurales that trains 70 000 young people from 14 years old to bachelors' degree every year. The Domaine de la Saulsaie MFR develops trainings from second year of highschool to technical diploma in agriculture (2 years after highschool) in services to individuals, horticulture and vegetable gardening.

What You'll Do: The volunteer will be asked to support the MFR’s staff, to favour intercultural and linguistic awareness among the students and to support the organisation of pedagogical activities. For examples, the tasks may include providing linguistic support in collaboration with the English teachers, organising intercultural evenings, accompanying students during school trips or professional events, etc.

Dates: From October 2025 to May 2026

Location: Montluel, France

How to apply: Send your CV and motivation letter to: Lucie ROZIER, ces.rhone-alpes@concordia.fr, and write "Animation and intercultural exchange in a French high school” in the subject of the e-mail, specifying as well your sending organization.

Deadline: 01/07/2025

European Ambassador of Volunteering - Municipal Animation Center of Cournon

The project's mission is animating activities with children and teenagers from 3 to 17 years old in a municipal animation centre, focusing especially on the topics of interculturality, european values and sustainable development objectives.

What You'll Do: Contribute to the activities of the local Municipal Animation Center as a member of the animation team, getting engaged in arts, crafts, sports and cultural activities. Raise awareness on citizenship and intercultural topics through workshops and other pedagogical activities. Promote European mobility among youngsters of the territory, students of local middle and high schools.

Dates: From 01/09/2025 to 31/08/2026

Location: Cournon D'Auvergne, Auvergne, France

Deadline: 7th of July 2025

How to apply: Fill in this form and if you wish send additional document showing your motivation to the email cav.auvergne@concordia.fr

European Ambassador of Volunteering - Corum Saint-Jean

The Corum Saint-Jean is an association whose aim is to secure the path of young people by offering them different accommodation and catering options, and specific support for a successful transition to the professional world. Composed of several Residences, it offers a diversity of housing and its mission is to help residents to become autonomous and supportive citizens.

What You'll Do: Promote European mobility among youngsters supported by the structure; accompany the young people in the preparation and realization of collective projects promoting citizenship and living together; support the communication of the projects by creating communication materials and publishing on social networks.

Dates: From 01/09/2025 to 31/08/2026

Location: Corum St-Jean in Clermont-Ferrand, France

Deadline: 7th of July 2025

How to apply: Fill in this form and if you wish send additional document showing your motivation to the email cav.auvergne@concordia.fr

LE REV, Réseau d’Entraide Volontaire

Volunteer for Solidarités Jeunesses, an organization that manages youth exchanges, trainings and international workcamps, whose base camps is located in Parc National des Cévennes, a UNESCO site.

What You'll Do: During your volunteering you'll take part in the organisation of the workcamps that are happening in the summer in the site in Finiels and in the villages around. You'll be leading them as a full member of the team. You will take care of group dynamics by welcoming the participants and facilitating team-building activities but also by solving conflicts during the projects. You’ll be responsible of the administration and budget of the project. You’ll create a link with locals by organizing meetings and plan some activities with them.

Dates: From July until October 31st, 2025

Location: Finiels, France

Requirements: Have a driving licence and feel comfortable driving on montains roads.

Deadline: ASAP

Apply through the European Solidarity Corps portal

Long-term volunteering in Belgium from August or September 2025

Youth Organisaiton - JAVVA

JAVVA – Young People Active in Volunteering and Alternative Travel – is a Belgian non-profit organization. It defines itself as a Youth Organization for Citizen Action and Intercultural Dialogue . The association welcomes around one hundred young people from around the world each year on local development projects in Belgium and allows around one hundred young people to participate in international volunteer projects abroad each year.

What You'll Do: The role involves organizing and leading local projects in partnership with organizations like the Red Cross. It includes running workshops, debates, and awareness activities in schools and public events. The volunteer will also take part in a workcamp as volunteer and teamleader, support other volunteers, and help develop new initiatives.

Dates: From 03/09/2025 to 31/08/2026

Location: Brussels, Belgium

How to apply: Apply through the European Solidarity Corps portal. If you need more information, you can email hosting@javva.org.

Application deadline: 07/07/2025 at 00:00

Kindergarten - Enfance de l'Art

« L’Enfance de l’Art » is a non-profit organization whose aim is to help parents to become more involved in their children’s education. To that purpose, the organization set up hosting facilities for children or people with reduced autonomy, leisure workshops, nurseries, schools. The organization uses alternative pedagogies (Steiner & Loczy).

What You'll Do: The role involves supporting educators and the head teacher in organizing and carrying out a variety of activities, including arts and crafts, storytelling, singing nursery rhymes, baking, outdoor games, and nature walks.

Dates: From 01/09/2025 to 30/08/2026

Location: Tournai, Belgium

How to apply: Apply through the European Solidarity Corps portal. If you need more information, you can email hosting@javva.org.

Application deadline: 30/06/2025 at 12:00

Long-term ESC in Croatia starting in June 2025!

"Waves of Solidarity" Project in Šibenik

Are you passionate about youth work, community engagement, and personal growth? Two poisitions are open join the "Waves of Solidarity" project in Šibenik, Croatia!

What You'll Do:

Promote quality leisure activities for young people, support youth initiatives at the Šibenik Youth Center & Eurodesk office, create content for social media & the organization's website, organize workshops and events to encourage volunteering, collaborate with local schools and educational institutions.

Who Can Apply?

The organization is looking for two volunteers aged 18-30 motivated to contribute to youth work and volunteering. No prior experience needed—just enthusiasm!

Location: Šibenik, Croatia

Duration: FLEXIBLE - 10-12 months between June 2, 2025 – June 1, 2026

Apply now or reach out for more details by writind to the emails: giovanna.la.gala@mladi-eu.hr | matej.matic@mladi-eu.hr

More info about the organization available at this link, infopack available at this link

Long-term volunteering in Romania from October 2025

ACT for Community

The objective of the project is to provide personal and professional opportunities for 300 students in Craiova by implementing non-formal development programmes and workshops centered around 3 interweaving topics: solidarity and social inclusion, active citizenship and eco-friendly behaviours.

Volunteer tasks: Some of the activities include: to help implementing several needs analysis methods such as surveys, panel, round table discussions and role plays; to facilitate workshops using non-formal methods; to design solidarity initiatives/projects; to run volunteering promotion campaigns and activities at local level.

Dates: 10 months - From October 2025 to July 2026

Location: Craiova, Romania

How to apply: Prepare a CV (preferably using the Europass model, and a motivation letter, and send them to officengo.act@gmail.com.

Nine spots for long-term volunteering in Vilnius, Lithuania

Kindergarten "Mamos delne" - 1 volunteer
The kindergarden provides pre-school education for children from 1 to 6 years old kids. The volunteer will help the kindergarten teachers to implement different activities for kids, organize events, workshops, etc.
Dates: 2025 10 01 - 2026 09 31
Kindergarten "Little ones academy" - 1 volunteer
"Little Ones Academy" kindergarten has 50 children between 2 and 6 years old. The volunteer will assist the teachers with lesson preparation, setting up learning materials, and supporting children' during activities. Volunteers may assist with hands-on science experiments, building projects, or other STEM-related tasks as well as organize healthy living activities for kids.
Dates: 2025 08 01 - 2026 07 31
Vilnius Youth Policy Center - 1 volunteer
Public Institution Vilnius Youth Policy Centre is an organization dedicated to youth policy research and analysis, focusing on addressing specific challenges faced by young people in Vilnius city.
The volunteer will help organize cultural and social youth events, assist with youth policy research, spend time with youngsters at the Open Youth Center, support the management of social media platforms and perform administrative tasks.
Dates:2025 09 01 - 2026 08 31
Open Youth Center of "Vilnius Youth Policy Center" - 1 volunteer
"22 bendra būtis" is a newly opened youth center located in the heart of Vilnius Old Town, welcoming young people aged 14–29. The center is a dynamic space where youth workers and youngsters spend time together, play games, engage in meaningful conversations, and organize local cultural and social activities. As a volunteer, you will support this centre which actively promotes volunteering at both national and international levels, offers information, organizes school presentations, and manages the Volunteering in Vilnius platform.
Dates: 2025 09 01 - 2026 08 31
Day center "Šviesa" - 2 volunteers
Šviesa provides day social care services for 74 people with mental, intellectual and complex disabilities from 18 years old. The day center is looking for volunteers to help to implement different activities for people with disabilities. The volunteers will be invited to organize different artistic and cultural activities together with social workers.
Dates: 2025 08 01 - 2026 07 31
Antakalnis Open Youth Center - 2 volunteers
The youth center organizes different activities: events, projects, workshops, etc. Volunteers' tasks include engaging with the youth, assisting and creating their own events based on their interests, for example informational events about volunteering, discussions, game and cultural nights, creative workshops, etc. As well as contributing to media and communication.
Dates: 2025 09 01 - 2026 08 31
Sustainable Development Projects - 1 volunteer
Dates: 2025 08 01 - 2026 07 31
How to apply to the projects:
If you want to apply for Antakalnis Open Youth Centerby fill in this questionnaire.
For all the other projects, send your CV and Motivational letter to saltes.volunteers@gmail.com by the 16h of June by stating the project you are interested into.

Volunteer opportunities in Vienna from Autumn 2025

Several long-term ESC volunteering placements are being opened in Vienna (Austria).

The volunteering activities are hosted by different organizations and will start in autumn 2025 for a duration of 9-11 months!
The working areas range from the field of childcare and education, youth and community work, to culture and arts, and projects fighting social challenges!

Here are some of the opportunities offered but click here to find all the projects available!

Kulturhaus Brotfabrik is a Community Hub that initiates participative art processes.
It offers a wide range of cultural events at two separate venues, in order to create new networks within the local community. The two main targets of Kulturhaus Brotfabrik are to build bridges between different communities, autochthonous Viennese inhabitants and newcomers, with the help of art and culture and to makethe arts and artistic expression accessible to people whose access to mainstream institutions of art is limited and/or impeded through societal mechanisms of exclusion.
Volunteer tasks: Besides supporting existing initiatives (art workshops, repaircafé, concerts, children's events) the volunteers are also encouraged to present their own ideas which they might come up with when getting in touch with the residents.
Volunteer Profile: You should be interested in community work, (participatory) art and/or graphic design. Volunteers with physical disabilities are especially encouraged to apply.
Dates: From 01.10.2025, duration 10-11 months
Die Tafel Österreich is the biggest and oldest foodbank in Austria. It is an independent social and environmental organisation. It provides food to people affected by poverty and living in social institutions (refugee center, homeless shelters, mother-children-homes etc.) since 1999. The food is provided free of charge and consists of food that would otherwise have become a waste.
Volunteer tasks:Volunteers will get to know a wide variety of tasks (always with a clear schedule and training), such as collecting food from donors and distributing it to social institutions, engage in educational workshops for children and youth, offer office and event support.
Dates: From 01.10.2025, duration 10-11 months

How to apply: If you want to apply for one of these projects, fill in the Melange application form available on this page and send it together with your CV (curriculum vitae) and motivation letter to application@melange.wien. Please state the name of the ESC project (host organisation), that you would like to apply for, in the subject of your e-mail.

Application deadline on  5.7.2025!

You will find more information about these project and the application procedure at this link.

One-year-long volunteering opportunities in Berlin from September 2025

Day-care Education at Sachsenwald Grundschule

ESC-volunteers will work in the day-care education at an elementary school, supporting the open and non-formal education activities in school as well as the full-day care activities in the afternoon.

Kita Nestwärme

Work in an inclusive Kindergarten! Located in the vibrant neighborhood of Kreuzberg, the childcare center Nestwärme opens its doors to 70 young children aged between 1 to 7 years. Volunteers play a crucial role in the day-to-day life of the Kita, engaging with children as play partners and helping with the Kita's daily maintenance and daily routines.

Daycare Center at the Berlin University of Technology

The Daycare Center is a Facility of studierendenWERK Berlin. The daycare centers primarily serve the children of students enrolled at universities and colleges throughout the Berlin area. The volunteers will participate in daily daycare routines and support educational staff; plan and organize small activities of their own; accompany children on outings; participating in all aspects of daily life.

How to apply: Fill in the application form attached below and send it, together with your CV, to the email esc-applications.berlin@ijgd.de

SPW projects, Poland, September 2025 - August 2026

About the organisation: Stowarzyszenie Promocji Wolontariatu (SPW) is an NGO founded in 1993 whose principal activities are related with organizing International workcamps, coordinating mid- and long-term voluntary projects in Poland and sending Polish young people to participate in analogous projects abroad. They are currently looking for volunteers for six projects.

Education, Rehabilitation and Welfare Centre ‘Helenów’ (Warsaw)

4 Volunteers
Take part in Hippotherapy Sessions or support activities in the Vocational and Boarding schools of a center for kids with disabilities.

Central Office of SPW (Warsaw)

2 Volunteers
Take care of the communication and graphic design of SPW by working in the central office of the NGO in Warsaw.

Municipal Kindergartens in Pułtusk

4 Volunteers
Help the teachers of the kindergartens numbers 4 and 5 of Pułtusk and teach your language to the children of this town.

Cultural Centre of Pomiechówek Commune

1 Volunteer
Organize activities, workshops, and language classes in the Culture Center of this little Mazovian town.

Public Library of Pomiechówek Commune

1 Volunteer
Volunteer in the Public Library while contributing to the bustling cultural life of Pomiechówek.

Municipal Library in Przasnysz

2 Volunteers
Take part in the activities organized by the Public Library of this town and share your interests with their residents.

How to apply: Check SPW's website for the projects' infopacks. You can contact esc@spw.ngo for more information.

Deadline: Volunteers are recruited until a suitable candidate is found.

Miten ESC-vapaaehtoispaikkoihin haetaan?

Kerro hakemuksessa, miksi haluat vapaaehtoiseksi juuri hakemaasi projektiin. Paikat täytetään sopivan vapaaehtoisen löydyttyä, joten kannattaa hakea mahdollisimman nopeasti. Paikkoihin haetaan yleensä Euroopan nuorisoportaalin kautta.

Voit halutessasi hakea useampaan paikkaan samalla kertaa. Nämä paikat ovat erinomaisia mahdollisuuksia päästä nopeasti tekemään mielekästä vapaaehtoistyötä esimerkiksi välivuoden ajaksi!

Jos haluat lisätietoa tai apua paikkojen haussa, ota meihin yhteyttä sähköpostitse hakemukset@alli.fi tai puhelimitse (myös WA) 044 4165209. Autamme mielellämme!