ASOCIAȚIA Grupul Verde

CSR partnerships for companies in Brașov

· education · environment

From Brașov, for children in Vrancea.

Companies in Brașov can support free digital and environmental education for children and young people in Vrancea, a county where two in three people live in a village. We prepare and coordinate everything; you choose the theme.

At a glance

The partnership, in one place.

Who it is for
Companies in Brașov and Brașov County
What you support
Robotics and STEM in villages, Girls in tech, AI biodiversity monitoring
How
Tax-deductible sponsorship, equipment, employee volunteering
Where
In schools and villages in Vrancea, about 130 km from Brașov as the crow flies
Reporting
Interim and final report, with unique participants and results
Organiser
Asociația Grupul Verde, Vrancea, since 2021

For companies in Brașov

We start from what your team knows.

The economy of Brașov rests on automotive and aerospace, IT and tourism. We picked the programmes where your people can help most.

Girls in tech

Girls in tech: the automotive and aerospace industries need engineers, and 55% of participants in our tech courses are girls.

Ideas for Brașov

Three concrete ways to start.

We adapt them to the size of your team and your budget.

Proposal

From drawing to part

Engineers from the automotive and aerospace industries show pupils how a part is made, from drawing to product.

Proposal

A first CV

Your HR colleagues prepare NEET young people for an interview and help with their first CV.

Proposal

Equipment for the mobile lab

3D printers, robotics kits or sensors, donated to the lab that travels to Vrancea’s villages.

Why Vrancea

Same country, different starting line.

In Brașov County, average net monthly earnings are RON 5,245, 27% more than in Vrancea (RON 4,139; INS, January 2026, via Economedia). In Vrancea, two in three people live in a village. All the data, with sources, is on the Green Innovation Hub page; the steps of a partnership are on the CSR partnerships page.

FAQ

What companies ask us.

Do we need to be in Vrancea to take part?

No. Sponsorship and donated equipment need no travel, and sessions with your staff can also take place online. For fieldwork, Vrancea is about 130 km from Brașov as the crow flies.

Which programmes suit companies in Brașov?

For an economy built on automotive and aerospace, IT and tourism, we suggest: Robotics and STEM in villages, Girls in tech, AI biodiversity monitoring. You can also support any other programme of the association.

Is the sponsorship tax-deductible?

Yes, within the limits of the Romanian Fiscal Code: the association has been on ANAF’s register of eligible entities since 30 August 2023. For the exact calculation, we recommend speaking to your accountant.

Portfolio 2026–2027

What we build next, with young people.

This page 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.

Technology, AI and resilience

AI for local climate resilience

AI models trained by young people on local data (temperature, rainfall, soil) that tell a community what to prepare before a heatwave summer.

Target programme: Horizon Europe · Adaptation Mission

Linked to: Agentic AI, Vrancea Ready

Open science and research

European Researchers’ Night + Researchers at Schools

Researchers in classrooms and an open evening where young people show their prototypes: robots, sensors, apps for nature.

Target programme: Horizon Europe · MSCA

Linked to: R&D Hub — Research & Innovation, Young Innovators Incubator

Living labs for nature and climate

Climate education and communities (Central and Eastern Europe)

Climate lessons that start in your own village, shared with schools across Central and Eastern Europe. Young people write the code that visualises them.

Target programme: EUKI (European Climate Initiative, Germany)

Linked to: Code & Climate, Environment & biodiversity

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: Civic and legal education, Partners & UNESCO

Erasmus+ and mobility

Small-scale partnership: AI literacy, robotics, environmental education

A partnership with 2–3 organisations in which young people create an open lesson kit: AI, Marty the Robot and outdoor learning.

Target programme: Erasmus+

Linked to: Digital education & AI, Environment & biodiversity

European Solidarity Corps

International volunteering teams (waste, recycling, inclusion)

Mixed teams of young people from several countries who clean up, sort and measure waste with an app they built.

Target programme: European Solidarity Corps (EACEA)

Linked to: Environment & biodiversity, Inclusion for Every Child

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