Get Involved · Local
Make a difference in your own city. Volunteer with us in Athens.
Join EVEC’s hands-on activities — grow food, help young people learn, and support real events — on a schedule that fits your life. No experience needed, just the will to help.
Why volunteer locally with EVEC
Hands-on, close to home, genuinely useful.
Local volunteering is the in-person complement to our online volunteering — it offers what online can’t: the living growing systems, the youth workshops, and the events.
Real, hands-on work
Grow microgreens, run urban-farming systems, help young people learn by doing.
Be part of a community
Join a warm, multicultural team and meet people from across Athens and Europe.
Learn by doing
Pick up new skills, from growing and facilitation to event work.
On your schedule
Come when you can; we’ll find something useful for the time you have.
Recognition
A certificate of participation and a reference for what you contribute.
Real impact
Your time directly powers our workshops, gardens and events.
Honest, up front: local volunteering is in-person, flexible and unpaid — not an EU-funded placement. What you gain is experience, community, recognition, and real impact.
Ways to help locally
Find your way to help.
These happen in person, in Athens. Pick what fits you — or tell us your own idea.
Grow with us
Help run our microgreens and urban-farming systems: planting, tending, harvesting, and keeping the growing space alive. The hands-on heart of what we do.
Help at our workshops
Assist our weekly seed-to-fork workshops for Athens youth — welcoming groups, guiding activities, and sharing the experience.
Events & community days
Lend a hand at multiplier events, awareness days, and community activities — setup, hosting, and making them run smoothly.
Capture the action
Photograph or film our activities on-site, so the rest of Europe can see EVEC’s work. For those with the skill and interest.
Welcome our internationals
Be a local buddy for incoming ESC volunteers and trainees — show them Athens and help them settle in.
Your own idea
Have a skill or passion you’d like to bring? Tell us — if it helps the mission, we’ll make room for it.
Prefer to help from home or from another city? See our Online Volunteering page →
Who can join
Everyone’s welcome.
If you live in or near Athens, you can volunteer with us — any age, any background, Greek or English speaking. You don’t need experience or qualifications, just a few hours and the will to help. We welcome people with fewer opportunities and are happy to discuss adjustments so everyone can take part.
That means you
How it works
How it works.
Light, flexible and friendly — easy to start and to fit around your life.
- Flexible
- Come regularly or occasionally — we’ll match you to activities that fit your time.
- Easy start
- A short chat or intro session, then you’re in.
- Light coordination
- A friendly coordinator points you to where help is needed and shows you the ropes.
- Safeguarding
- For activities with young people we provide a short safeguarding briefing and, where required, ask for a criminal-record certificate — to keep everyone safe.
What you get
What you’ll walk away with.
- A certificate of participation and a reference.
- New skills and hands-on experience inside a real European NGO.
- A community and new connections across Athens and Europe.
- A line on your CV — “volunteered with an Erasmus+ & ESC-accredited NGO.”
- A possible pathway, if you’d like to go further, into our ESC or traineeship opportunities.
Your recognition
- Certificate of participation for the time you contribute.
- Reference letter for your work with us.
- A pathway onward into ESC or a traineeship, if you’d like.
To confirm before launch: exact recognition (certificate/reference) and commitment expectations.
How to join
Ready? Come and help.
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Send us a quick message
Use the form, or email erasmus@evec.org.gr — tell us roughly when you’re free and how you’d like to help.
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We invite you in — and you start
We’ll invite you for a short intro and get you started.
Other ways to be part of EVEC
Four ways to join.
Local volunteering is one of four ways to join EVEC. Pick the one that fits your life right now.
Local volunteering
- In person in Athens
- Any age, flexible, unpaid
- Hands-on, in the community
Internship (Erasmus+ traineeship)
- On-site in Athens
- Funded by your institution
- For students
Trust & credibility
An accredited non-profit, active since 2017.
- 20+ Erasmus+ & ESC projects since 2017 — based in Zografou, Athens.
- Non-profit NGO — volunteers of all ages welcome in person.
- “Co-funded by the European Union” logo + disclaimer.
