CSR partnerships for companies in Cluj-Napoca

· education · environment

From Cluj-Napoca, for children in Vrancea.

Companies in Cluj-Napoca 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.

Let’s talk What fits your company

At a glance

The partnership, in one place.

Who it is for: Companies in Cluj-Napoca and Cluj County
What you support: Digital education & AI, European programmes, AI for citizens
How: Tax-deductible sponsorship, equipment, employee volunteering
Where: In schools and villages in Vrancea, about 280 km from Cluj-Napoca as the crow flies
Reporting: Interim and final report, with unique participants and results
Organiser: Asociația Grupul Verde, Vrancea, since 2021

For companies in Cluj-Napoca

We start from what your team knows.

The economy of Cluj-Napoca rests on IT and software development, universities and healthcare. We picked the programmes where your people can help most.

Digital education & AI

Your developers can teach a coding lesson to children who have never written code before.

European programmes

Living labs where young people in Vrancea build sensors and AI apps for community resilience: a first step towards an IT career.

AI for citizens

AI explained simply for pupils and adults: what an AI assistant can do and where it gets things wrong.

Ideas for Cluj-Napoca

Three concrete ways to start.

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

Proposal

Code reviews with teenagers

Your developers review, online, the projects of young people on our coding courses, one hour a month.

Proposal

A hackathon day in Vrancea

Your team spends a day in Vrancea working with young people on a real problem in their community.

Proposal

A week of work experience

Young people from our living labs can spend a week with your company, their first contact with an IT team.

Why Vrancea

Same country, different starting line.

In Cluj County, average net monthly earnings are RON 6,532, 58% 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 280 km from Cluj-Napoca as the crow flies.

Which programmes suit companies in Cluj-Napoca?

For an economy built on IT and software development, universities and healthcare, we suggest: Digital education & AI, Youth, digital innovation and disaster resilience, AI for citizens. 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.

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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