Get Involved · Online
Volunteer with us online — from anywhere in the world.
Help EVEC Kocani bring our network's hands-on learning methods to young people in North Macedonia. Online volunteering lets you 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 Kocani
Real work. Real portfolio. From wherever you are.
Distance is no barrier. Online volunteering means you contribute to real EVEC Kocani 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, translations, designs and campaigns that go live on our site and channels.
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 — real people who read what you send and answer you.
A mission that matters
Help practical, hands-on learning reach young people in Kocani and our branch towns — including those with fewer opportunities.
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 — that is our own rule, and we are glad to work with teenagers online. 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.
Every online volunteering role below 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 our projects, methods and local stories into plain-language articles for evec.org.mk that young people actually read.
You'll gain: published, bylined pieces.
Translator (English ↔ Macedonian)
Remotely: translate our articles, open calls and learning materials between English and Macedonian, so they reach both audiences.
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 Facebook and Instagram channels.
You'll gain: a content portfolio and real engagement metrics.
Graphic Designer
Remotely: design social and dissemination visuals from home — posters, cards and campaign graphics.
You'll gain: published, on-brand portfolio work.
Web Designer / Developer
Remotely: help build and improve evec.org.mk and our programme pages.
You'll gain: real, shipped web work.
Web Content Manager
Remotely: publish and manage WordPress content and SEO on our site.
You'll gain: CMS and technical-SEO experience.
Have a skill we haven't listed? Tell us — if it helps the mission, we'll find a way to use it.
One exception — in person only: our hands-on activities happen on the ground in Kocani and our branch towns and can't be done online. If that's more your thing, see the Local volunteering and ESC pages.
How it works
The methods behind the work.
The four hands-on methodologies in our network were authored by our president, Blagoj Ristov, and piloted at our sister organisation EVEC Athens. We in Kocani are now bringing them to North Macedonia — and a method only travels if somebody turns it into materials people here can pick up and run. Those do not write themselves.
That is where online volunteers come in: translating and adapting the materials into Macedonian, researching what has already been tried elsewhere, designing the visuals, and writing up our local work. The four methods:
- Mycelium — growing material from 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
To be clear about where things stand: the sessions delivered so far ran in Athens. Our job in Kocani is to bring the methods home — and the remote part, the materials, translations and research, is exactly where you come in.
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 site 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 NGO that works with EU programmes.
- A genuine line on your CV — “volunteered remotely for an NGO holding the ESC Quality Label.”
- 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.
Write to us
Email contact@evec.org.mk with the role you'd like, a line or two about yourself, and links or samples if you have them. We reply within 3 working days.
A short online chat
We agree the scope together: your task, weekly hours, and the recognition you'll receive. If you are under 18, we will ask for a parent or guardian's consent first, per our safeguarding policy.
Pick a task and start
A real person briefs you and reviews what you send — and what you finish counts toward your certificate.
Other ways to join
Prefer to come in person — and get funded?
Online volunteering is one of several ways to join EVEC Kocani. If you'd like a funded, in-person experience, explore the two below. We have not hosted an ESC volunteer in North Macedonia yet — the placement is accredited and ready for the first arrival.
Online volunteering
- Remote, from anywhere
- Flexible, unpaid
- Certificate + reference
Internship (Erasmus+ traineeship)
- On-site in Kocani
- Funded by your sending institution, under the current Erasmus+ rules for North Macedonia
- For students
ESC volunteering
- On-site in any of our five towns — Kocani, Stip, Strumica, Delcevo or Lozovo
- Fully EU-funded
- Ages 18–30, ESC programme country, 14 days to 12 months
Trust & credibility
A registered non-profit, active since 2014.
- 17 EU projects across our network since 2015 — every reference code on this site can be checked on the official Erasmus+ project results platform.
- 4 branch offices — Stip, Strumica, Delcevo and Lozovo — alongside our seat in Kocani.
- ESC Quality Label (Hosting + Supporting), valid to 31/12/2027 — verifiable on the European Youth Portal.
- Citizens' association, Kocani, North Macedonia — volunteers welcome worldwide.
Keep exploring
Other ways to take part
Get Involved
Internship
Want something structured and funded in Kocani? 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 →Get Involved
Local volunteering
In Kocani or one of our branch towns? Drop by and help in person.
View page →