Get Involved · Erasmus+ Traineeship
Intern in Athens. Build a portfolio you can show.
An internship in Athens with EVEC: join us for an Erasmus+ traineeship and do real work that goes live — published articles, designs, campaigns, websites, and educational toolkits used across Europe. Structured mentorship, a multicultural team, and the Mediterranean outside your door.
Why intern with EVEC
Real work. Real portfolio. Real impact.
You leave with published work and a portfolio — not coursework.
A portfolio, not a simulation
Your work is published and public: articles with URLs, live campaigns with metrics, toolkits on the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform.
Structured mentorship
A dedicated supervisor, weekly check-ins, and learning outcomes mapped to the EU Key Competences in your Learning Agreement.
A multicultural team
Work alongside up to five trainees from different EU countries in a real cross-functional team.
Real responsibility
Help run a live Google Ad Grant (up to USD 10,000/month), build a website from scratch, or grow microgreens and help build our growing systems.
Athens
An affordable Mediterranean capital and one of Europe’s most popular Erasmus destinations.
A mission that matters
Help us turn science into learning that reaches thousands of young people.
Find your role
Seven ways to grow with us. Pick yours.
Each role is a real position on our team, with its own detailed brief you can download and share with your Erasmus office. Tap a role to see the full brief and apply.
Microgreens, Vertical Farming & Urban Agriculture Intern
You’ll: grow microgreens and help build our growing systems.
You’ll leave with: hands-on microgreens growing experience and a growing system you helped build.
Social Media Coordinator
You’ll: run our channels across three web ecosystems, produce short-form video (Reels/TikTok/Shorts), and build a brand-new social ecosystem from scratch.
You’ll leave with: a multi-platform management portfolio, a launch case study, and real engagement metrics.
Multilingual Content Writer
You’ll: write 2–4 published articles a week plus recruitment copy and multilingual adaptations, and build our editorial style guide.
You’ll leave with: 30–60+ published, bylined pieces and a multilingual EU-communication portfolio.
Graphic Designer
You’ll: build a full brand-identity system, produce social and dissemination assets at volume, and design print/event materials.
You’ll leave with: a brand system you designed and a high-volume published portfolio.
UX / Web Strategist
You’ll: audit three live websites, redesign a real conversion flow, restructure 100+ articles, and optimise accessibility (WCAG) and Google Ads landing pages.
You’ll leave with: a multi-site UX audit, a before/after conversion case study, and a Figma portfolio.
Web Content Manager
You’ll: manage three WordPress/Blocksy Pro sites, run the publishing pipeline, implement SEO at scale, and build out a new portal.
You’ll leave with: multi-site CMS management, a professional publishing workflow, and technical-SEO experience.
Marketing Strategist
You’ll: help run a live Google Ad Grant (up to USD 10,000/month), design multi-project content calendars and analytics dashboards, and define audience personas.
You’ll leave with: a portfolio-grade marketing strategy, hands-on Google Ad Grants experience, and team-coordination credentials.
Don’t see a perfect fit but have a skill we’d value? Tell us — we consider strong candidates year-round.
The essentials
The methods you’d be working with.
Whichever role you pick, you would be working with one of four methods we have developed here — and learning it properly, not watching someone else do it.
- 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
You need no background in any of them. They were designed to be learnable from scratch, which is also what makes them worth putting in a portfolio: you can explain what you did, why it worked, and what you would change.
Everything you — and your Erasmus office — need to know.
- Funding
- An Erasmus+ grant from your sending institution — approximately €500–700/month (Greece = Group 2), including the traineeship top-up; exact amount set by your national agency. +€250/month inclusion top-up for participants with fewer opportunities; green-travel and travel-day top-ups also available. Students at Greek universities and remote interns do not receive an Erasmus+ grant (see Eligibility and Format).
- Duration
- Set by your Erasmus+ grant / programme rules — tell us your dates. For reference, 2–12 months is the Erasmus+ higher-education traineeship range (VET follows KA1-VET rules).
- Hours
- 30–35 per week for Erasmus+ trainees. Greek university placements: up to 20 h/week.
- Format
- On-site in Athens. Digital roles (design, social media, content, web, UX, marketing) can also be done online if you are based outside Greece: unpaid, with no Erasmus+ grant, because the Erasmus+ traineeship grant covers on-site mobility only. Microgreens / urban agriculture is on-site only. Greek university πρακτική άσκηση is on-site only by law (ν.4957/2022 άρθρο 69 παρ. 5Γ).
- Languages
- English is the working language (B1–C1 by role); Greek not required; other EU languages welcome.
- Eligibility
- KA131-HED traineeships and KA1-VET mobility; VET/ITS, BA and MA students from other programme countries. Students at Greek universities can intern with us on-site in Athens through their university placement (πρακτική άσκηση) — not Erasmus+, since Erasmus+ does not fund a traineeship in the country of your own university.
- Start
- Rolling — begin as soon as your Learning Agreement is signed.
Support
You won’t be thrown in at the deep end.
- A dedicated supervisor/mentor and weekly check-ins; structured learning outcomes in your Learning Agreement.
- Accommodation-search support and full city orientation.
- Inclusion: we welcome applicants with fewer opportunities, support the inclusion top-up, and discuss reasonable adjustments.
- Safeguarding: for roles involving minors we request a criminal-record certificate and give a safeguarding briefing during orientation. Read our safeguarding policy.
A professional toolset
These are the tools we hold nonprofit grants or licences for, and you get access to all of them for the length of your placement. Anything outside this list — specialist design or video software, for example — is not something we can provide, so bring your own if your role needs it.
- Letter of Intent
- Pre-filled Learning Agreement (KA131 or KA1-VET)
- Host Organisation Profile
- Insurance & safeguarding documentation
- A Traineeship Certificate at the end
How to apply
Ready for an internship in Athens? Here’s how it works.
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Email us
Email erasmus@evec.org.gr with: your CV · a 1-page motivation letter · a short portfolio or examples · confirmation of Erasmus+ grant eligibility (if applicable) · your preferred dates and duration.
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We reply within 2 working days
We reply with a Letter of Acceptance if it’s a fit.
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We finalise the Learning Agreement
We finalise the tripartite Learning Agreement and you’re set.
The ESC pathway
Want to stay longer? There’s a path.
Trainees who are a strong fit may be offered a European Solidarity Corps placement with us in Athens afterwards, funded by the EU, if they are eligible: aged 18–30, legally resident in an ESC programme country, and new to ESC volunteering. Looking for volunteering rather than a study/VET traineeship? See our ESC page.
Traineeship vs ESC
Traineeship
- For students
- Funded by your sending institution via Erasmus+
- 2–12 months (Erasmus+ higher-education range; VET follows KA1-VET rules)
ESC
- Ages 18–30, legally resident in an ESC programme country
- Fully funded by the EU
- 14 days – 12 months
Same roles, different routes.
Trust & credibility
An accredited non-profit, active since 2017.
- 20+ Erasmus+ & ESC projects since 2017 · partners across Greece, North Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Spain, Denmark and Austria.
- Non-profit NGO, Athens (Zografou).
- Three live web ecosystems: evec.org.gr · microgreens.org.gr · volunteer.org.gr
Keep exploring
Other ways to take part
Erasmus+
ESC volunteering
Funded, 14 days to 12 months — for ages 18–30 who legally live in an ESC programme country.
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