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Artificial intelligence education
AI in Romania.
Young people learn how AI works and where it gets things wrong.
- 2026–2035
- Digital education & AI
Project sheet
Understanding AI, not just using it.
Young people learn how AI works, where it gets things wrong and how to use it responsibly — from children to older people.
Project status
Launched in 2026- ✓ConceptAnalysis & partners
- 2PilotFirst activities
- 3OngoingActive in the community
- 4ExpansionRegional scale-up
2025the year from which the AI Act requires AI literacyRegulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act), 2024 · [2]
5.2%of Romanian companies use AIEurostat, 2025 · [3]
✓What already exists
- Project launched in 2026
- AI literacy already built into our youth cohorts
→Project objectives
- Critical AI workshops in partner schools
- Open resources on AI and its environmental footprint
- AI explained simply: sessions for older people
AI in Romania · from the field
The project in pictures.
Photos from our workshops. Support the project so it can reach the next school too.
Critical thinking about AI and its ecological footprint
Code and curiosity for a greener world
AI literacy, from children to seniors
Part of
The Digital education & AI programme.
Extended through the Green Innovation Hub
What we build next.
This programme feeds directly into the Green Innovation Hub initiatives, built on European models.
What we hope for · how you can help
Every young person deserves to understand the technology that understands them.
Choose how you would like to contribute.
AI mentors
Explain AI to young people, once a month.
Become a mentor →Partner schools
We bring the workshops to your school.
Invite us →Project 2026–2035
This is a 10-year movement. Choose your role.
Sources and methodology
Where the figures come from.
Our own figures (young people trained, schools, localities) come from the association’s records and are published in the impact report. Context statistics come from official sources, with the year of the latest available edition.
- People (aged 16–74) with at least basic digital skills, Romania — last place in the EUEurostat · isoc_sk_dskl_i21 · 2025. See source ↗
- The AI literacy obligation (Art. 4) applies from 2 February 2025Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (AI Act) · 2024. See source ↗
- Companies (10+ employees) using artificial intelligence, Romania — last place in the EUEurostat · isoc_eb_ai · 2025. See source ↗
Portfolio 2026–2027
Young people defending democracy, with data.
AI in Romania 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 in pre-school and primary education
Short activities, screen-free or with Marty the Robot, through which children aged 4–10 understand how a machine “thinks”. Young volunteers prepare them.
Target programme: Horizon Europe
Linked to: First Steps, Digital education & AI
Open science and research
Youth, science and democracy (science literacy)
Pupils learn to read a study, spot a misleading statistic and build their own experiment with low-cost sensors.
Target programme: Horizon Europe
Linked to: Media & Democracy, Civic and legal education
Democracy, memory and citizenship
AI, deepfakes and democracy
Young people safely create a deepfake to learn how to spot one, then teach others to check before they share.
Target programme: Horizon Europe
Linked to: Media & Democracy, Agentic AI
Democracy, memory and citizenship
Pupils and families in civic education
Pupils attend workshops with their parents on rights, voting and public services and build a small digital guide for the community together.
Target programme: Horizon Europe
Linked to: Civic and legal education, Citizenship & Rights
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
Erasmus+ and mobility
Youth exchanges, youth worker mobility and youth participation
Young people from Vrancea travel and host peers from across Europe; youth workers learn new ways of working with technology.
Target programme: Erasmus+
Linked to: Youth, gender & activism, Inclusion for Every Child
Support AI in Romania
Help this pilot get started.
Your donation goes straight into the activities of AI in Romania in Vrancea — materials, kits, trainers and transport for children and young people. Every amount counts.
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