WECF
We work with WECF (Women Engage for a Common Future), an international network headquartered in Utrecht, on GreenCode for Fairer Futures: technology, climate and equal opportunities.
Your partner in Romania, for organisations in the Netherlands
· Erasmus+ · VranceaFrom the Netherlands to Vrancea, one project at a time.
Our partner WECF is headquartered in Utrecht, so Dutch organisations are one step away from a network we already work with. We are an NGO in Vrancea, Romania, working on digital and environmental education for children and young people in rural Vrancea.
Our link with the Netherlands
People we already work with.
All our partners and funders are listed on the partners page.
Ideas with the Netherlands
Where we could start.
All project types we are ready for, and the data on Vrancea, are on the European partners page.
Gender and climate
With WECF’s network: projects that bring girls into technology and climate action.
Citizen science
Joint biodiversity monitoring with iNaturalist and low-cost sensors, comparing data from two countries.
Youth workers’ mobility
Youth workers from Vrancea learning from Dutch youth work, and hosting Dutch colleagues in Vrancea.
Your national agency
Erasmus+ in the Netherlands.
- Nuffic
- education and training
- Nederlands Jeugdinstituut (NJi)
- youth and the European Solidarity Corps, Utrecht
The full list of national agencies is on the European Commission’s Erasmus+ website. In Romania, the national agency is ANPCDEFP.
FAQ
What partners ask us.
Have you worked with organisations from the Netherlands?
Yes. We work with WECF (Women Engage for a Common Future), an international network headquartered in Utrecht, on GreenCode for Fairer Futures: technology, climate and equal opportunities.
Which Erasmus+ agency handles projects from the Netherlands?
It depends on the sector: Nuffic (education and training); Nederlands Jeugdinstituut (NJi) (youth and the European Solidarity Corps, Utrecht). The Romanian partner applies through ANPCDEFP when it is the coordinator.
How do we start?
Write to us with the call, the topic and your timeline. We reply with our partnership file and a first idea for the project.
Other countries
European partners by country.
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