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Tablets and materials for a group of older people.
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Intergenerational digital mentoring
Network across generations.
Young people help grandparents with technology; grandparents help young people with their experience.
- 2026–2035
- Active ageing
Project sheet
Young and older people, mentoring each other.
Young people help older people use digital services; older people share their life experience with them.
Project status
Pilot · 2026- ✓ConceptAnalysis & partners
- 2PilotFirst activities
- 3OngoingActive in the community
- 4ExpansionRegional scale-up
84.8%of rural households have internet at homeINS, 2025 · [2]
✓What already exists
- Older people in the Digital Education & AI Training Hub workshops
- The first young–older mentoring pairs
→Project objectives
- Intergenerational network in all partner communities (2035)
- Less paperwork, more time for family: public services online
- Online safety for every generation
Intergenerational Network · from the field
The project in pictures.
Photos from our workshops. Support the project so it can reach the next school too.
Less paperwork, more time for family
Young and older people, mentoring each other
Part of
The Active ageing 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
One hour a week changes a life at both ends.
Choose how you would like to contribute.
Become a mentor to an older person
One hour a week, in your community.
Become a volunteer →Tablets and phones
Simple devices for first steps.
Donate devices →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 55–74 who have never used the internet (calculation: 100% − 88.7%)INS · 2025. See source ↗
- Households with internet access at home, rural areas (urban: 92.6%)INS · 2025. See source ↗
Portfolio 2026–2027
Young people defending democracy, with data.
Intergenerational Network 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
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, Rural communities
Democracy, memory and citizenship
Remembering democratic transitions (1989)
Interviews with witnesses of 1989, recorded and transcribed by pupils into an open digital archive, compared with other countries in the region.
Target programme: CERV · Creative Europe
Linked to: Civic and legal education, Media & Democracy
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
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
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, For funders
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
Support Intergenerational Network
Help this pilot get started.
Your donation goes straight into the activities of Intergenerational Network in Vrancea — materials, kits, trainers and transport for children and young people. Every amount counts.
Bank transfer with no fees · 3.5% of your tax · sponsorship with a contract