Work & Grown With Us

Three quiet ways to spend a season in SETE CIDADES, AZORES, across our three pillars — Gastronomy, Art, and Hospitality. No applications go through agencies. You write to us, and we write back.

For local students

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For university students

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For travellers

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For local students • For university students • For travellers •

For local students

Students 16–19, living locally

A 2-month paid summer job at Carioca Breezy, for young people who already live here. We also host local secondary school students as interns or apprentices, year round, through a direct protocol with your school.

For university students

Local and EU university students

A 1 to 3-month Erasmus+ traineeship for European students, immersed in everything Awaken Azores does. University students from São Miguel can also join through a direct internship protocol with their institution.

For travellers

International volunteers

A 30 to 90 days volunteering season through our future associative branch — coming soon.

A first summer job for young residents

Every year, from 15 June to 15 September, we open paid seasonal positions at our food truck, Carioca Breezy, for secondary school students living in Sete Cidades and the surrounding villages. It's real work — service, prep, the small choreography of a garden food truck on a busy afternoon — done close to home, in a place you already know well.

We offer short-term contracts in line with Portuguese labour law, including work insurance and social security contributions. For minors, we also require parental involvement — parents or guardians review and sign a consent agreement before the start of work.

  • Students 16–19, living locally.

  • 15 Jun – 15 Sep, every year.

  • Carioca Breezy Food Truck in our garden.

  • Legal contract, insurance, social security.

A traineeship in the frame of the Erasmus+ programme

We can host European university students for a 1 to 3-month Erasmus+ traineeship, twice a year — April to June or July to September, 30 hours a week. Your daily work centers on Carioca Breezy — service, prep, the everyday running of the business — but you'll also lend a hand wherever Awaken Azores needs it, across our art and hospitality projects. It's hands-on, varied work, set inside a small, slow-paced village, in daily contact with travellers, neighbours, and visitors from all over the world.

Outside your working hours, your time is entirely your own. Some trainees rest and explore the island — Sete Cidades alone could fill a season. Others get involved with our art side: the artist residency, the studio, the WanderWall... Others simply follow their own curiosity, wherever it leads, on this island. What you make of the experience is up to you.

  • EU university students.

  • Apr–Jun or Jul–Sep.

  • Carioca Breezy Food Truck & Awaken Azores projects in Sete Cidades.

  • 30h / week.

  • AstroVan stay accommodation + facilities + one meal/day.

A future season of international volunteering

Awaken Azores will soon have its own associative branch, built to give shape and a proper legal footing to community-based projects like volunteering. Once it's in place, from 2027 on, we'll open a structured volunteering programme: 30 to 90 days, October-March, alongside accommodation, meals, and a documented expense allowance.

If this sounds like you, leave your details below — we'll write to you to keep in touch.

  • Adult International volunteers

  • 30–90 days, October-March.

  • Through our associative branch.

  • Not yet open.

  • AstroVan Stay accommodation, meals + documented expense allowance.

A local internship or apprenticeship

For secondary and university students from São Miguel, we're open to hosting interns and apprentices throughout the year, outside the summer season. This works through a direct protocol between Awaken Azores and your school or university — your institution formalises the placement through the channels your programme already has in place.

The work varies depending on where Awaken Azores needs hands — Carioca Breezy, the artist residency, the garden, or the hospitality project in development. We treat every placement as a real experience. If you're interested, talk to your school or university first — then write to us directly so we know you're coming.

  • Secondary and university students from São Miguel.

  • Year round, outside summer season.

  • According to your programme's requirements.

  • Protocol between Awaken Azores and your institution.

We're a small community-driven project, growing slowly, on purpose. If you write to us, expect a real reply — from a real person, not a bot : )

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