Volunteer online from anywhere, and on the ground in Greece

volunteer.org.gr is a project of EVEC Athens, a non-profit association in Zografou, Athens. Our aim is to bring together volunteers, online from anywhere and onsite in Greece, with the organisations that need them.

Today you can volunteer online in the EVEC Volunteer Academy. Volunteer actions in Greece are in preparation. Read more about EVEC.

Yes. The EVEC Volunteer Academy costs nothing. It is volunteering, so it is also unpaid.

Every action listed on Volunteering opportunities must also be free for volunteers. Nobody may ask you to pay a fee to apply or to take part. If someone does, please tell us at erasmus@evec.org.gr.

Anyone aged 15 or over, wherever they live.

If you are 18 or over, you can join the Volunteer Academy yourself. If you are 15 to 17, a parent or guardian registers you first, on the Academy’s page for parents on evec.org.gr. If you are under 15, you can join from your 15th birthday.

There is no chat between volunteers, at any age. Only adults on the EVEC team review a young person’s work, and all Academy staff can read the Messages thread. See how the Academy keeps volunteers safe.

Not always. The Academy runs in Greek and English. Task briefs are written in English as well as Greek, and each task says which language it needs.

If you are 18 or over and do not speak Greek, much of the work needs no Greek at all, for example design, video, subtitling, research and social content.

Not yet. Onsite volunteer actions in Greece, starting in Zografou and Athens, are in preparation, and no actions are listed at the moment. We publish an action only after checking it with the organisation that runs it. Checked actions will appear on Volunteering opportunities.

To hear when the first ones open, fill in our Get notified form and tick “Email me when checked volunteer actions open in Greece”. Onsite actions will be open to volunteers aged 15 and over. If you are under 18, you need a parent’s or guardian’s permission before you send the form.

If you are a non-profit organisation or community institution organising an action or project, online or in Greece, tell us about it on our page for organisations. We decide which actions we list.

Before a call goes live, we check your legal registration, a named contact person, safeguarding for any role involving minors or vulnerable people, and an apply-by date. Every action must be free for volunteers, with no fee to apply or to take part.

After the checks, and once you have agreed to our terms for partner organisations and to what we publish, our team creates your organisation’s profile page on volunteer.org.gr and may publish the call on Volunteering opportunities. The profile page shows your organisation’s name, a short description and its calls, and a contact person’s name only if that person agrees. Each call names your organisation, says what volunteers will do, where (or “online”) and when, and gives the apply-by date. We take it down after that date. There is no account to create, and nothing is published until we have checked the call with you.

Yes. The free EVEC Volunteer Academy app is on Google Play for Android phones. It has the Academy’s lessons and tasks, messages with our team and the notifications you choose, in English and Greek. On an iPhone or a computer, use the Academy in your web browser, on evec.org.gr.

The app is for anyone aged 15 or over. If you are under 18, a parent or guardian registers you first, on the Academy’s page for parents.