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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 talkWhat fits your company

National and international recognition

Trust earned in Romania and worldwide.

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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

The people beside us · 2021–2026

Together with those who believed in Vrancea’s children.

Foundations, companies, European networks and institutions that backed our programmes. Every logo is tied to a real activity.

01

Funders & sponsors

They put resources behind our programmes: grants, sponsorships, equipment.

4 partners
  • Fundația Orange
    Funder2024–2025

    Digital Education & AI Training Hub

    Fundația Orange

    A training hub for digital education and artificial intelligence for children and young people in Vrancea.

    Digital education & AI →
  • WECF
    Partner2026–2027

    GreenCode for Fairer Futures

    WECF

    Technology and climate justice for young people, with the international Women Engage for a Common Future network.

    Youth, gender & activism →
  • JYSK
    Sponsor2022–2023

    Generația Tech

    JYSK

    Sponsor of the programme that trained 100 young people from Vrancea in IT.

    Digital education & AI →
  • Luxoft
    Sponsor2022–2023

    Generația Tech

    Luxoft

    Sponsor of the programme that trained 100 young people from Vrancea in IT.

    Digital education & AI →
02

Education & technology

Partners who bring clubs, curriculum and robots into the classroom.

3 partners
  • Fundația Progress · CODE Kids
    Partnersince 2024

    CODE Kids coding club

    Fundația Progress · CODE Kids

    A coding club for children, part of Fundația Progress’s CODE Kids network.

    Digital education & AI →
  • Generația Tech
    Partner2022–2023

    IT training for 100 young people

    Generația Tech

    Digital and IT skills courses for young people starting out towards a career in tech.

    Digital education & AI →
  • Robotical · Marty the Robot
    Partnersince 2022

    Educational robotics with Marty the Robot

    Robotical · Marty the Robot

    Children learn coding and logical thinking by building and programming Marty the Robot.

    Digital education & AI →
03

European networks

They connect us to European education and conservation communities.

3 partners
  • BGCI
    Member

    Botanic Gardens Conservation International

    BGCI

    The global network of botanic gardens: plant conservation and education for biodiversity.

    Environment & biodiversity →
  • DigiEduHack 2025
    Organiser2025

    Official EduHack event

    DigiEduHack

    An education innovation hackathon, supported by the European Commission, where young people pitch digital solutions.

    Digital education & AI →
  • #SustainCityHack
    Partner2022

    The #SustainCityHack hackathon

    French Institute in Romania · French Embassy

    A 36-hour online hackathon for sustainable cities: urban mobility, regeneration and planning.

    Digital education & AI →
04

Recognition

Institutions that publicly recognised the association’s work.

2 partners

We only show organisations we have actually worked with. Logos are used with each partner’s agreement.

We build programmes for young people in Vrancea together — companies, foundations, schools and institutions.

Become a partner

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

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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New project · nationwide

Education for All: online tutoring for Romania’s national exams.

A volunteer teacher “adopts” a pupil in grades 5–12, from any county, and prepares them online for the National Assessment or Baccalaureate, at no cost to the family.

  • Pupils, grades 5–12
  • Volunteer teachers
  • CSR companies
  • Schools and councils
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