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Civic and legal education for young people

Civic and legal education.

We teach young people what rights they have, how to use them and how they can change things in their community. A right you don’t understand is a right you don’t have.

  • Constitutional rights
  • Active citizenship
  • Law 544/2001
  • Case law
Citizens who defend nature with data — Civic & legal education

Results & objectives · 2021 → 2040

The programme’s path to 2040.

Completed 2021–2026Goal 2030–2040

Civic and legal education

  1. 2021Completed2025 · EduHack, the first civic hackathon
  2. 2026CompletedSchool of Rights · launch
  3. 2030GoalCase-Law Observatory · annual report
  4. 2035GoalResilient Communities · participatory assemblies
  5. 2040GoalCivic model replicated in other counties*

Completed = 2021–2026, public figures. * 2040 goals proposed by the association, currently being validated.

100%
EduHack — the first civic hackathon run by Asociația Grupul VerdeOctober–November 2025Objective achieved
100%
School of Rights launched2026Objective achieved
0%
Case-Law Observatory · first report2030 targetIn preparation

✓What we have achieved

  • EduHack — young people with prototypes for real problems (2025)
  • Launch of the School of Rights (2026)
  • Guides on access to public information (Law 544/2001)

→What remains to be done

  • Annual report of the Case-Law Observatory (2030)
  • Participatory assemblies through Resilient Communities (2035)
  • The civic model replicated in other counties (2040)*

The cause · why this programme exists

A right you do not understand is a right you do not have.

Almost half of 15-year-old pupils cannot understand a basic-level text. Without that, laws and rights remain only on paper.

48%

of Romanian 15-year-olds are below the baseline level in reading

OECD, PISA 2025, 2025 · [1]

15-year-olds below the baseline level in reading

Romania48%
OECD average31%
OECD, PISA 2025, 2025 · [1]
19.2%of young people aged 15–29 in Romania are neither in education nor in workEurostat, 2025 · [3]

In pictures · 8 photos

This is what civic and legal education looks like.

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EduHack · civic hackathon

Prototypes for local air quality

Green Case-Law Observatory

The right to a healthy environment, explained through technology

Resilient Communities

Young people proposing solutions for their community

Citizenship & Rights

Data collected by robots for public decisions

Citizenship & Rights

Rights can be learnt at any age

Green Case-Law Observatory

Law and data, on nature’s side

Resilient Communities

Strong communities, from children to grandparents

EduHack · civic hackathon

A civic hackathon for real problems

What we actually do

Young people who know their rights and use them.

School of Rights / Living Constitution

Courses, webinars, e-books and interactive presentations on constitutional rights.

Living Citizenship Lab

Guides and tools for exercising your rights, including Law 544/2001.

Case-Law Observatory

Annual reports, a barometer of how rights are applied, and civic monitoring.

Resilient Communities

People deciding together.

Our role · how we work

We translate the law into young people’s language.

Real cases, debates and practical tools for exercising your rights.

  1. Local diagnosisWe start from data: the schools, the villages and the real needs of young people in Vrancea.
  2. A programme built with expertsCurriculum and activities designed together with specialists and teachers.
  3. Training & equipmentWe bring kits, laptops and mentors wherever they are missing.
  4. Working in the communityFree, hands-on activities at school, in the village or out in the field.
  5. Measurement & public reportingWe count the results and publish them — verifiable figures, not promises.

Who we work with

The experts beside the children.

The specialist profiles we start and run the activities with. Their names appear in the project reports.

Volunteer lawyers and legal expertsExplain rights through real cases and check the materials.Involved from the start
Civic education teachersBring the School of Rights into the school curriculum.Involved from the start
Debate facilitatorsTeach young people to argue a case and propose solutions.Involved from the start
Transparency expertsGuide public information requests and civic monitoring.Involved from the start

Turning pixels into oxygen

“A right you don’t understand is a right you don’t have.”

Asociația Grupul VerdeCivic and legal education

Extended through the Green Innovation Hub

What we build next.

This programme feeds directly into the Green Innovation Hub initiatives, built on European models.

What we hope for · how you can help

Active citizens are made, not born.

Support civic education for young people in Vrancea.

Donation

Support the School of Rights

Free materials, webinars and workshops for pupils.

Donate →
Partnership

Schools that want a civic hackathon

We bring the EduHack format to your school.

Invite us →
Partnership

Partner institutions and NGOs

For civic monitoring and open data.

Let’s talk →

Support the programme

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Sources and methodology

Where the figures come from.

Our own figures (young people trained, schools, localities) come from the association’s records and are published in the impact report. Context statistics come from official sources, with the year of the latest available edition.

  1. 15-year-olds below the baseline level in reading, RomaniaOECD, PISA 2025 · 2025. See source ↗
  2. 15-year-olds below the baseline level in reading, OECD averageOECD, PISA 2025 · 2025. See source ↗
  3. NEET young people (aged 15–29), Romania — the highest rate in the EUEurostat · edat_lfse_20 · 2025. See source ↗

Portfolio 2026–2027

Young people defending democracy, with data.

Civic and legal education is part of the 2026–2027 portfolio of Asociația Grupul Verde: 43 programme lines in which young people build technology for nature, protected species, climate and democracy, with partners from Romania and the EU through Horizon Europe, LIFE, Erasmus+, the European Solidarity Corps and CERV.

Open science and research

Youth, science and democracy (science literacy)

Pupils learn to read a study, spot a misleading statistic and build their own experiment with low-cost sensors.

Target programme: Horizon Europe

Linked to: Media & Democracy, AI in Romania

Living labs for nature and climate

Living labs: inclusive governance for nature

Farmers, local councils, schools and young people decide together how land is used. Young people bring the data, the community brings experience.

Target programme: Horizon Europe · Cluster 6

Linked to: Green Case-Law Observatory, Nature Restored

Democracy, memory and citizenship

Pupils and families in civic education

Pupils attend workshops with their parents on rights, voting and public services and build a small digital guide for the community together.

Target programme: Horizon Europe

Linked to: Citizenship & Rights, Inclusion for Every Child

Democracy, memory and citizenship

Remembering democratic transitions (1989)

Interviews with witnesses of 1989, recorded and transcribed by pupils into an open digital archive, compared with other countries in the region.

Target programme: CERV · Creative Europe

Linked to: Media & Democracy, Intergenerational Network

Democracy, memory and citizenship

Town twinning

Citizens’ meetings between twinned towns, where young people present the technical solutions they built for their own town.

Target programme: CERV

Linked to: Partners & UNESCO, Rural communities

Democracy, memory and citizenship

Youth networks for democratic participation, climate and digital

A network of youth groups that consult online, vote on priorities and take proposals to the authorities, using their own digital tools.

Target programme: Erasmus+ (EACEA)

Linked to: Youth, gender & activism, Young Innovators Incubator

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Keep this programme free.

Your donation goes straight into the activities of Civic and legal education in Vrancea — materials, kits, trainers and transport for children and young people. Every amount counts.

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