Marius-Cristinel NastasacheChair
Represents the association and leads the Board.
The team of Asociația Grupul Verde
· Vrancea, RomaniaThe people behind the programmes.
Asociația Grupul Verde is led by a three-member Board and works through trainers, partner teachers and volunteers. In 2025, 52 volunteers worked with us in Vrancea County, Romania.
The Board
Who is accountable.
Board members are elected by the association’s General Assembly.
Alin-Ionuț GheorghioiuSecretary
Keeps the records of the Board’s decisions and the association’s documents.
Marian DumitruMember · Director of Education Programmes
Leads the digital, AI and environmental education programmes.
Full profile →Leadership and training
Who leads and who teaches.
Marian DumitruDirector of Education Programmes
Certified trainer in AI and digital education. He leads our digital, AI and environmental education programmes, the youth living labs and AI literacy training for teachers.
- Leads the 2026–2027 European portfolio: living labs, Erasmus+, ESC and LIFE
- 400 hours of Code.org programming, 18 teachers trained in AI literacy
- 18 teachers from 8 schools trained in AI literacy
marian.dumitru@grupulverde.ro
+40 374 962 748
Elena-MădălinaIT Trainer
IT trainer on our team: coding and robotics workshops, digital training and mentoring for young people. She also coordinates communication for our projects.
- Mentor at EduHack 2025, the first civic hackathon run by Asociația Grupul Verde
- Soft skills trainer and career adviser in the TechWomen Empowerment Hub
- Code.org, Marty the Robot, Arduino and micro:bit
elena.madalina@grupulverde.ro
+40 374 962 748
Trainers and volunteers
Teachers, students, parents.
Figures come from our annual activity reports for 2023–2025.
52 volunteers in 2025
Young people, students, parents and professionals who help with workshops, field trips and events. In 2023 there were 12.
Teachers in partner schools
More than 38 schools and clubs in Vrancea work with us. Teachers trained in AI literacy take the lessons back to their classrooms.
Want to teach or help?
We welcome trainers, mentors and volunteers, including international volunteers for European projects.
Get in touch →How we decide
Written, verifiable rules.
- Legal form
- Non-profit association under Romanian Government Ordinance 26/2000
- Founded
- 14 April 2021, Vrancea County
- Governing body
- General Assembly of members
- Executive body
- Board of three members
- Financial control
- Independent auditor, member of CECCAR (Romanian body of chartered accountants)
- Tax registration
- Tax ID 44109108; in the Romanian tax authority’s register of eligible non-profits since 30 August 2023
Documents are available on request, see For funders.
Portfolio 2026–2027
What we build next, with young people.
Our team 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.
Erasmus+ and mobility
Short-term mobility projects — adult education
Trainers and adult volunteers learn abroad how to teach AI literacy and digital skills to adults and older people.
Target programme: Erasmus+
Linked to: Active ageing, Digital Inclusion
Technology, AI and resilience
Youth, digital innovation and disaster resilience
Secondary school students build flood, drought and earthquake sensors and a digital risk map that families and authorities can use.
Target programme: Horizon Europe
Linked to: Vrancea Ready, Resilient Communities
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
Living labs for nature and climate
Soil living labs: Continental, Black Sea (Pontic) and Steppic regions
Three of Romania’s biogeographical regions, one protocol: young people measure soil moisture and carbon with sensors they build.
Target programme: Horizon Europe · Soil Mission
Linked to: Nature Restored, Sensors in Protected Areas
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
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