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 →For foundations, companies and authorities
For funders.
Our identification details, funding history and the documents an assessor asks for, all in one place. We only list here what we can prove with a contract, a report or a written confirmation.
National and international recognition
Trust earned in Romania and worldwide.
All partners and recognition →
InternationalUNESCO King Hamad Prize 2026 nomination ↗
NationalEuropa FM “Green Medal”, 2025
EuropeanOfficial DigiEduHack 2025 event, supported by the European Commission
Euro-MediterraneanMember organization of the Anna Lindh Foundation Romania, 2026- FunderFundația Orange · Digital Education & AI Training Hub, 2024–2025
CurriculumCurriculum with 11 international distinctions
International network · 2026–2027
Part of Funding Fairer Futures, the European initiative for climate justice.
SubgranteeCAN Europe · WECF · European Commission
Grupul Verde delivers the GreenCode for Fairer Futures project in Vrancea, supported through Funding Fairer Futures: the initiative led by Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe and co-funded by the European Commission. Alongside more than 50 organisations selected across Europe, we bring European models of climate, environmental, technology and inclusion education home.
- TrainingCapacity building for the organisation, to European Commission standards.
- NetworkPeer learning and exchange with organisations across Europe.
- Just transitionSupport for campaigning and advocacy for a fair climate transition.
The CAN Europe network
The initiative is led by CAN Europe, Europe’s largest coalition of climate organisations. Among the network’s members:
Belgrade Open SchoolSerbia
Climate AnalyticsGermany
Italian Climate NetworkItaly
European Grandparents for ClimateEurope
Youth for Climate NLNetherlands
The logos belong to members of the CAN Europe network and identify the network; they are not direct partners of the association.
Organisation profile
Who signs the contract.
- Name
- Asociația Grupul Verde
- Legal form
- Non-profit association under Government Ordinance no. 26/2000
- Tax identification code (CIF)
- 44109108
- Year founded
- 2021, in Vrancea County
- Activity base
- Orange Digital Center, județul Vrancea
- Bank account
- RO10 BTRL RONC RT06 0137 9301
Banca Transilvania - Funding contact person
- Marian Dumitru, director of educational programmes
- Institutional relations
- relatii.institutionale@grupulverde.ro
- Accounting
- Outsourced to an accounting firm in Vrancea
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.
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Funders & sponsors
They put resources behind our programmes: grants, sponsorships, equipment.
4 partners
Partner2026–2027GreenCode for Fairer Futures
WECF
Technology and climate justice for young people, with the international Women Engage for a Common Future network.
Youth, gender & activism →
Sponsor2022–2023Generația Tech
JYSK
Sponsor of the programme that trained 100 young people from Vrancea in IT.
Digital education & AI →
Sponsor2022–2023Generația Tech
Luxoft
Sponsor of the programme that trained 100 young people from Vrancea in IT.
Digital education & AI →
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Education & technology
Partners who bring clubs, curriculum and robots into the classroom.
3 partners
Partnersince 2024CODE Kids coding club
Fundația Progress · CODE Kids
A coding club for children, part of Fundația Progress’s CODE Kids network.
Digital education & AI →
Partner2022–2023IT 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 →
Partnersince 2022Educational 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
MemberBotanic Gardens Conservation International
BGCI
The global network of botanic gardens: plant conservation and education for biodiversity.
Environment & biodiversity →- Organiser2025
Official EduHack event
DigiEduHack
An education innovation hackathon, supported by the European Commission, where young people pitch digital solutions.
Digital education & AI → 
Partner2022The #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- Recognition2026 · ID 407
UNESCO King Hamad Prize nomination ↗
CNR-UNESCO
UNESCO’s prize for the use of technology in education; the association was nominated in 2026.
Digital education & AI → - Recognition2025
Europa FM “Green Medal”
Europa FM
A national distinction awarded to the association in 2025 by the Europa FM radio station.
Environment & biodiversity →
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.
What can be funded now
Three things you can fund now.
Completed activities and costs already covered by another funder cannot be funded again. For everything ahead, there are three options.
The Green Innovation Hub
Seven initiatives that have not started yet. Each builds on a solution tested in another European country and does not overlap with any existing funding.
See the Hub →The next phase of a programme
A new group, other localities or a missing component. The project has its own start, end and results, with data from previous years as the starting point.
See the programmes →Organisational development
Equipment, people and working systems — everything that helps us run more programmes, and run them better. A good fit for NGO development calls.
Talk to us →How we use funds
Four rules we stick to.
One expense, one source
In our accounts, every cost is assigned to a single project. We never ask for money for something another funder has already paid for.
Nothing retroactive
We only seek funding for activities that start after the contract is signed. Completed projects are presented as experience, never budgeted again.
Parallel applications, declared
If a project is submitted to several funders, we say so in every application. If two are approved, we split the activities clearly between them.
Reporting and visibility on your terms
We report narratively and financially by the contractual deadlines. We use the logo and acknowledgement wording you require and send materials for approval before publication.
Documents
What we can send you today.
We send legal and financial documents by e-mail on request. Our child safeguarding, conflict of interest and anti-fraud policies are adopted by the Board and published below.
- Statute and articles of association
- Tax registration certificate
- Tax clearance certificate, issued when needed (valid for 30 days)
- Annual financial statements
- Activity report 2021–2026
- Final reports to funders
- Partnership agreements
- Team Europass CVs
Page updated on 16 October 2026.
Find us elsewhere · external proof
You don’t have to take our word for it.
Here is where Asociația Grupul Verde appears on other institutions’ and publications’ websites. Each card opens the original source.
Only public sources checked on 16 October 2026 are listed. Items marked “promo” appeared in the newspaper’s promotional section. Sources are in Romanian.
- International institutionFrench Institute
#SustainCityHack partner, April 2022
The association is listed under “Partners” on the official page of the hackathon co-organised by the French Embassy and the French Institute in Romania.
Open source ↗institutfrancais.ro - National mediaEuropa FM
“Green Medal”, 7 February 2025
A feature on how the association teaches children to use technology to protect the environment.
Open source ↗europafm.ro - Local media · promoZVZiarul de Vrancea
Digital weekend, 22–23 March 2025
Children from Vrancea and Bucharest discovered technology over a weekend of workshops. Published in the “Brand voice” section.
Open source ↗ziaruldevrancea.ro - Local media · promoZVZiarul de Vrancea
Educational event, Bacău and Vrancea
A photo report from the association’s educational event for children from Bacău and Vrancea. Published in the “Brand voice” section.
Open source ↗ziaruldevrancea.ro - CertificationsCRCredly
The programme director’s certifications
Verifiable digital badges of Marian Dumitru, the association’s director of education programmes.
Open source ↗credly.com
Let’s talk
Do you have an open call or an idea?
Tell us what you fund and by when. We will reply with a proposal tailored to the call and the documents required.
Marian Dumitru, director of educational programmes · marian.dumitru@grupulverde.ro · +40 374 962 748
Portfolio 2026–2027
From Vrancea to Europe, and back.
For funders 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.
Living labs for nature and climate
Soil living labs — the full proposal
The consortium, methodology and work plan for the soil living labs, ready to discuss with universities, farmers and authorities.
Target programme: Horizon Europe · Soil Mission
Linked to: Nature Restored, About the Hub
Living labs for nature and climate
LIFE — Standard Action Project: nature and governance
A LIFE project built on what the living labs have learned: habitat restoration, digital monitoring and decisions taken with the community.
Target programme: LIFE
Linked to: Nature Restored, Funding
Erasmus+ and mobility
Cooperation partnership (youth / schools / adults)
A larger project with partners from several countries that turns young people’s prototypes into resources used by schools and NGOs.
Target programme: Erasmus+
Linked to: About the Hub, Educational resources
Erasmus+ and mobility
Erasmus+ autumn round
We prepare proposals for the autumn round early: partners, budget and activities designed together with young people.
Target programme: Erasmus+
Linked to: Funding, Partners & UNESCO
European Solidarity Corps
Obtaining the ESC Quality Label
Asociația Grupul Verde is preparing its application for the European Solidarity Corps Quality Label, so it can host and send volunteers.
Target programme: European Solidarity Corps
Local and regional grants
Small grant without co-financing (EEA / Norway Grants)
Small grants with no own contribution, to test a young people’s idea quickly before a larger project.
Target programme: EEA Grants · Civil Society Fund
Linked to: Funding, Inclusion for Every Child
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
Get involved →Site in Romanian