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Legal education for pupils
Citizenship & Rights.
Knowing your rights through real cases.
- 2026–2035
- Civic and legal education
Project sheet
Rights are learned through real cases.
The Constitution explained through concrete situations: from the right to information to the right to a healthy environment.
Project status
Pilot · 2026- ✓ConceptAnalysis & partners
- 2PilotFirst activities
- 3OngoingActive in the community
- 4ExpansionRegional scale-up
19.2%of young people aged 15–29 are neither in education nor in employmentEurostat, 2025 · [2]
✓What already exists
- School of Rights launched in 2026
- Data collected by pupils’ robots, used in public debates
→Project objectives
- Courses, webinars and e-books on constitutional rights
- Guides to freedom of information requests (Law no. 544/2001)
- Debating clubs in partner schools
Citizenship & Rights · from the field
The project in pictures.
Photos from our workshops. Support the project so it can reach the next school too.
Data collected by robots for public decisions
Rights can be learnt at any age
Part of
The Civic and legal education 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
A young person who knows their rights can no longer be ignored.
Choose how you would like to contribute.
Volunteer lawyers
One workshop a month on one right.
Become a volunteer →Schools and teachers
We build the courses into civic education lessons.
Let’s talk →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.
- 15-year-olds below the baseline level in reading, RomaniaOECD, PISA 2025 · 2025. See source ↗
- NEET young people (aged 15–29), Romania — the highest rate in the EUEurostat · edat_lfse_20 · 2025. See source ↗
Portfolio 2026–2027
Young people defending democracy, with data.
Citizenship & Rights 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.
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, Inclusion for Every Child
Democracy, memory and citizenship
Youth civic participation (with the Republic of Moldova)
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.
Target programme: Black Sea Trust (German Marshall Fund)
Linked to: Civic and legal education, Youth, gender & activism
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, AI in Romania
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, AI in Romania
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
Democracy, memory and citizenship
Intergenerational communities
Young people teach grandparents to use a phone safely; grandparents give them the stories and crafts that young people digitise.
Target programme: Horizon Europe · NEB
Linked to: Active ageing, Intergenerational Network
Support Citizenship & Rights
Help this pilot get started.
Your donation goes straight into the activities of Citizenship & Rights in Vrancea — materials, kits, trainers and transport for children and young people. Every amount counts.
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