Technology built by young people, for nature and democracy.
The 2026–2027 portfolio of Asociația Grupul Verde brings together 43 programme lines in seven directions. The idea is the same everywhere: young people do not just learn technology, they build it (sensors, AI models, maps, apps) for their own community. We are looking for partners from Romania and across the European Union for each of them.
At a glance
Asociația Grupul Verde | Digital education & AI | Environment & biodiversity | Civic participation | Social inclusion | Rural communities
Our partners · 2021–2026
Funders, networks and education partners from Romania and Europe, each backed by a contract, an agreement or a written confirmation.
Funder · Digital Education & AI Training Hub, 2024–2025
Partner · GreenCode for Fairer Futures, 2026–2027
Sponsor · Generația Tech, 2022–2023
Sponsor · Generația Tech, 2022–2023
CODE Kids coding club, since 2024
IT training for 100 young people, 2022–2023
Educational robotics, since 2022
Botanic Gardens Conservation International · member
UNESCO King Hamad Prize 2026 nomination · ID 407
“Green Medal”, 2025We only show organisations we have actually worked with. Logos are used with each partner’s agreement.
Directions
The seven directions of the portfolio. Every programme line links to our programme and project pages, where you can see what we already do.
Technology, AI and resilience · 5 programme lines
Young people build sensors, AI models and risk maps for their own community.
Secondary school students build flood, drought and earthquake sensors and a digital risk map that families and authorities can use.
Linked to: Vrancea Ready, Resilient Communities, Digital education & AI
Short activities, screen-free or with Marty the Robot, through which children aged 4–10 understand how a machine “thinks”. Young volunteers prepare them.
Linked to: First Steps, Digital education & AI, AI in Romania
Villages learn to withstand drought, floods, price shocks and isolation. Young people map local resources and build simple alert tools.
Linked to: Rural communities, Resilient Communities, Clean Energy for Villages
AI models trained by young people on local data (temperature, rainfall, soil) that tell a community what to prepare before a heatwave summer.
Linked to: Agentic AI, Vrancea Ready, Code & Climate
Schools and villages become test sites for the EU Missions on climate, soil and cities: young people prototype, the community decides what stays.
Linked to: About the Hub, R&D Hub — Research & Innovation, Centre 2035
Open science and research · 2 programme lines
Pupils work with researchers and learn to test a claim against data.
Pupils learn to read a study, spot a misleading statistic and build their own experiment with low-cost sensors.
Linked to: Media & Democracy, AI in Romania, Civic and legal education
Researchers in classrooms and an open evening where young people show their prototypes: robots, sensors, apps for nature.
Linked to: R&D Hub — Research & Innovation, Young Innovators Incubator, Youth, gender & activism
Living labs for nature and climate · 10 programme lines
Soil, pollinators, invasive species and climate adaptation, monitored by young people with technology they build. See how young people protect birds, wildlife and protected plants →
Three of Romania’s biogeographical regions, one protocol: young people measure soil moisture and carbon with sensors they build.
Linked to: Nature Restored, Sensors in Protected Areas, Environment & biodiversity
The consortium, methodology and work plan for the soil living labs, ready to discuss with universities, farmers and authorities.
Linked to: Nature Restored, For funders, About the Hub
Meadows, riverbanks and forest edges restored with the community; young people track results with cameras and AI acoustic stations.
Linked to: Nature Restored, Environment & biodiversity, Sensors in Protected Areas
Bee and butterfly transects, photos verified on iNaturalist and an AI model that helps with identification, all run by pupils.
Linked to: Environment & biodiversity, Sensors in Protected Areas, Nature Restored
The Vrancea living labs connect with labs in other countries: the same data, compared, and young people learning from each other.
Linked to: Nature Restored, Partners & UNESCO, About the Hub
Young people map ragweed, black locust and other invasive species with a reporting app and, with experts, propose control steps.
Linked to: Environment & biodiversity, Sensors in Protected Areas, Green Case-Law Observatory
Farmers, local councils, schools and young people decide together how land is used. Young people bring the data, the community brings experience.
Linked to: Green Case-Law Observatory, Civic and legal education, Nature Restored
A LIFE project built on what the living labs have learned: habitat restoration, digital monitoring and decisions taken with the community.
Linked to: Nature Restored, Funding, For funders
Local adaptation plans for heat and drought, fed by data gathered by young people and debated in public before adoption.
Linked to: Vrancea Ready, Clean Energy for Villages, Funding
Climate lessons that start in your own village, shared with schools across Central and Eastern Europe. Young people write the code that visualises them.
Linked to: Code & Climate, Environment & biodiversity, Clean Energy for Villages
Democracy, memory and citizenship · 8 programme lines
From deepfakes to the memory of 1989: young people and their families learn to take part.
Pupils attend workshops with their parents on rights, voting and public services and build a small digital guide for the community together.
Linked to: Civic and legal education, Citizenship & Rights, Inclusion for Every Child
Young people safely create a deepfake to learn how to spot one, then teach others to check before they share.
Linked to: Media & Democracy, AI in Romania, Agentic AI
Young people teach grandparents to use a phone safely; grandparents give them the stories and crafts that young people digitise.
Linked to: Active ageing, Intergenerational Network, Rural communities
Interviews with witnesses of 1989, recorded and transcribed by pupils into an open digital archive, compared with other countries in the region.
Linked to: Civic and legal education, Media & Democracy, Intergenerational Network
Citizens’ meetings between twinned towns, where young people present the technical solutions they built for their own town.
Linked to: Civic and legal education, Partners & UNESCO, Rural communities
A network of youth groups that consult online, vote on priorities and take proposals to the authorities, using their own digital tools.
Linked to: Youth, gender & activism, Civic and legal education, Young Innovators Incubator
Lessons on the Green Deal and the Digital Decade taught by young people to other young people, with examples from their village and games they created.
Linked to: Digital education & AI, Environment & biodiversity, Educational resources
Young people from Romania and the Republic of Moldova learn together how to write a petition, how a local council works and how to use open data.
Linked to: Civic and legal education, Youth, gender & activism, Citizenship & Rights
Erasmus+ and mobility · 8 programme lines
Exchanges, partnerships and mobility in which young people share and bring home technical ideas.
Young people from Vrancea travel and host peers from across Europe; youth workers learn new ways of working with technology.
Linked to: Youth, gender & activism, Inclusion for Every Child, Funding
Trainers and adult volunteers learn abroad how to teach AI literacy and digital skills to adults and older people.
Linked to: Active ageing, Digital Inclusion, Our team
A partnership with 2–3 organisations in which young people create an open lesson kit: AI, Marty the Robot and outdoor learning.
Linked to: Digital education & AI, Environment & biodiversity, Mobile Lab
A larger project with partners from several countries that turns young people’s prototypes into resources used by schools and NGOs.
Linked to: About the Hub, For funders, Educational resources
We prepare proposals for the autumn round early: partners, budget and activities designed together with young people.
Linked to: Funding, For funders, Partners & UNESCO
Young people from three neighbouring countries build a digital tool together for a shared problem: water, energy or reliable information.
Linked to: Youth, gender & activism, Media & Democracy, Partners & UNESCO
We help 18-year-olds from villages apply and travel; when they return, they tell the story of their trip on a digital map.
Linked to: Inclusion for Every Child, Second Chance, Rural communities
Running and cycling trails in nature, mapped by young people, that bring village children together and clean the area on every outing.
Linked to: Rural communities, Inclusion for Every Child, Environment & biodiversity
European Solidarity Corps · 8 programme lines
Solidarity and volunteering projects in which young people solve a real problem, with technology.
Young people write their own project and Asociația Grupul Verde supports them as coach: from idea to application, delivery and report.
Linked to: Youth, gender & activism, Young Innovators Incubator, Second Chance
European volunteers in our technology and nature programmes, as soon as we obtain the Quality Label.
Linked to: Contact, Environment & biodiversity, Digital education & AI
Youth groups that start a project for their village in spring, with a technical prototype at the end.
Linked to: Rural communities, Young Innovators Incubator, Funding
The second round of the year, for young people who started the summer with an idea and want to turn it into a project.
Linked to: Youth, gender & activism, Civic and legal education, Funding
Asociația Grupul Verde is preparing its application for the European Solidarity Corps Quality Label, so it can host and send volunteers.
Linked to: For funders, About us, Contact
Mixed teams of young people from several countries who clean up, sort and measure waste with an app they built.
Linked to: Environment & biodiversity, Inclusion for Every Child, Code & Climate
A week in which young people from several countries field-test environmental sensors and compare their data.
Linked to: Environment & biodiversity, Sensors in Protected Areas, Nature Restored
The same format in the autumn round: young people, fieldwork, data and a solution presented to the community.
Linked to: Youth, gender & activism, Environment & biodiversity, Funding
Local and regional grants · 2 programme lines
Small, community-level funding for ideas tested by young people.
Small grants with no own contribution, to test a young people’s idea quickly before a larger project.
Linked to: Funding, For funders, Inclusion for Every Child
LEADER projects through Local Action Groups that bring equipment and activities straight to partner communes.
Linked to: Rural communities, Mobile Lab, Funding
Target programmes
Every programme line is built for a specific European call. Asociația Grupul Verde joins as partner, coordinator or coach, depending on the rules of each call.
| Programme | Strand | Lines | Our programme lines |
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| Horizon Europe | MSCA, Missions (Soil, Adaptation), Cluster 6, New European Bauhaus | 17 |
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| LIFE | Nature and biodiversity, climate adaptation and governance | 2 |
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| Erasmus+ | Youth, adult education, partnerships, DiscoverEU, sport (EACEA) | 10 |
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| European Solidarity Corps | Solidarity projects, volunteering, Quality Label | 6 |
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| CERV | European remembrance, town twinning | 2 |
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| Creative Europe | Culture | 1 |
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| EEA and Norway Grants | Civil Society Fund | 1 |
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| LEADER | Local Action Groups, CAP Strategic Plan 2023–2027 | 1 |
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| Council of Europe | European Youth Foundation | 2 |
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| EUKI | European Climate Initiative (Germany) | 1 |
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| Black Sea Trust | German Marshall Fund | 1 |
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How we work
Frequently asked questions
Yes. We can be a partner or a coordinator, depending on the call. For European Solidarity Corps volunteering projects we are preparing the Quality Label; we can support youth solidarity projects as a coach organisation.
Access to 38+ schools and clubs in 11 localities in Vrancea, 52 volunteers, AI literacy and robotics trainers, and experience with Fondation Orange, WECF and DigiEduHack. Our young people bring prototypes, not just ideas.
Yes. We have worked with WECF (the Netherlands and Germany) and Fondation Orange (France), we are a BGCI member (United Kingdom) and we hosted an official DigiEduHack event supported by the European Commission.
Write to relatii.institutionale@grupulverde.ro with the call name and deadline. We reply within 2–3 working days.
Horizon Europe (MSCA, the Soil and Adaptation Missions, Cluster 6, the New European Bauhaus), LIFE, Erasmus+, the European Solidarity Corps, CERV, Creative Europe, the EEA Grants, LEADER, the Council of Europe’s European Youth Foundation, EUKI and Black Sea Trust. Our role is the local partner that brings young people, schools and communities in Vrancea.