Get Involved · Online
Volunteer with us online — from anywhere in the world.
Help EVEC turn science into learning that reaches thousands of young people. Contribute remotely on your own schedule, build a real portfolio, and earn a certificate and reference — no visa, no relocation, no cost.
Why volunteer online with EVEC
Real work. Real portfolio. From wherever you are.
Distance is no barrier. You contribute to real EVEC work from anywhere — and leave with work you can show.
From anywhere
No visa, no relocation, no cost. If you have a laptop and Wi-Fi, you can take part.
A portfolio, not a simulation
Your work is published and public: articles with URLs, designs, campaigns, and toolkits used across Europe.
On your schedule
Flexible, mostly asynchronous work that fits around your studies or job.
Recognition
A certificate of participation and a reference for the work you deliver.
A real team
Light, friendly check-ins with our coordinators and the trainee team.
A mission that matters
Make complex science understandable and appealing to ordinary people and young people.
Honest, up front: online volunteering is unpaid and flexible — it’s not an EU-funded placement. What you gain is experience, portfolio, recognition, and impact. And the minimum age is 15 — we work with teenagers online and we are glad to. If you are under 18, we will ask for a parent or guardian’s consent before you start; our safeguarding policy explains how we look after younger volunteers.
Find your online role
Pick how you’d like to help.
These roles can be done fully remotely. Each is a real part of our team — choose the one that fits your skills, or tell us your own.
Content & Research Writer
Remotely: turn open scientific research into plain-language articles for microgreens.org.gr that ordinary people and youth actually read.
You’ll gain: published, bylined pieces.
Translator
Remotely: translate our articles, toolkits and open calls into your language to extend our European reach.
You’ll gain: an easy, flexible way to make a real difference.
Social Media Contributor
Remotely: create content, short-form video, and community engagement for our channels.
You’ll gain: a content portfolio and real engagement metrics.
Graphic Designer
Remotely: design social and dissemination visuals from home.
You’ll gain: published, on-brand portfolio work.
Web Designer / Developer
Remotely: help build and improve our portal and programme pages.
You’ll gain: real, shipped web work.
UX / Web Strategist
Remotely: audit our sites, redesign flows, and improve accessibility.
You’ll gain: a UX case study and a Figma portfolio.
Web Content Manager
Remotely: publish and manage WordPress content and SEO.
You’ll gain: multi-site CMS and technical-SEO experience.
Marketing Strategist
Remotely: shape strategy, support our Google Ads grant, and build analytics dashboards.
You’ll gain: a portfolio-grade strategy.
Have a skill we haven’t listed? Tell us — if it helps the mission, we’ll find a way to use it.
One exception — on-site only: our Microgreens, Vertical Farming & Urban Agriculture role is hands-on and can’t be done online. If that’s your field, come to Athens instead → Internship and ESC pages.
How it works
The methods behind the work.
The hands-on part happens in Athens. But a method only travels if somebody turns it into materials other people can pick up and run — and those do not write themselves.
That is where online volunteers come in: writing up sessions, translating them, designing the materials, and researching what has already been tried elsewhere. The four methods you would be working on:
- Mycelium — growing material from olive-pruning waste that would otherwise be burned
- Microgreens — a full production cycle, seed to harvest, in about ten days
- Drones — starting on a simulator, then surveying real ground
- Solar energy — building small photovoltaic rigs and measuring what they produce
It is the difference between a method that works in one place and one that works anywhere. That part is done remotely, and it matters.
How online volunteering works.
Light, flexible and real — enough to deliver something worth showing.
- Commitment
- A few flexible hours per week, minimum ~1 month — enough to deliver something real and portfolio-worthy.
- Remote tools
- Google Workspace and shared docs, with simple async hand-offs and a light weekly or biweekly check-in.
- Mentoring
- A coordinator briefs you, reviews your work, and helps you grow — with a lighter touch than our on-site roles.
- Output
- Real, published work that goes live on our sites and channels.
What you get
What you walk away with.
- A certificate of participation and a reference for what you delivered.
- Published portfolio pieces with links you can share with employers.
- New skills and experience inside a real European NGO.
- A genuine line on your CV — “volunteered remotely for an Erasmus+ & ESC-accredited NGO.”
- The satisfaction of moving the mission forward.
Your recognition
- Certificate of participation at the end of your contribution.
- Reference letter for the work you delivered.
- Public links to your published work.
We’ll agree the details before you start: what recognition you’ll receive, your weekly hours, and the minimum duration.
How to apply
Ready to help? Here’s how.
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Register in the Academy
Create your account in the EVEC Volunteers Academy. It takes a couple of minutes, and it is open from anywhere in the world, at any age.
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Pick a task and start
Choose something that fits your skills and your week. A real person reviews what you send, and what you finish counts toward a certificate.
Other ways to join
Prefer to come to Athens — and get funded?
Online volunteering is one of four ways to join EVEC. If you’d like a funded, in-person experience, explore the two below.
Online volunteering
- Remote, from anywhere
- Flexible, unpaid
- Certificate + reference
Internship (Erasmus+ traineeship)
- On-site in Athens
- Funded by your sending institution
- For students
ESC volunteering
- On-site in Athens
- Fully EU-funded
- Ages 18–30, ESC programme country, 14 days to 12 months
Trust & credibility
An accredited non-profit, active since 2017.
- 20+ Erasmus+ & ESC projects since 2017 · live ecosystems evec.org.gr · microgreens.org.gr · volunteer.org.gr
- Non-profit NGO, Athens — volunteers welcome worldwide.
- Co-funded by the European Union — the funding statement and disclaimer are shown below.
Keep exploring
Other ways to take part
Get Involved
Internship
Want something structured and funded in Athens? Join as an intern.
View page →Erasmus+
ESC volunteering
Funded, 14 days to 12 months — for ages 18–30 who legally live in an ESC programme country.
View page →
