Elena-Mădălina is an IT trainer at Asociația Grupul Verde in Vrancea County, Romania. She teaches coding and robotics, runs digital training and mentoring for young people and coordinates communication for the association’s projects. She has worked with the association for five years, first as a volunteer and then on contract.
Summary
From the annual activity reports 2023–2025 and the TechWomen Empowerment Hub programme reports.
Programmes and projects
Choose a programme or project to see her role, the period, partners and results.
Event · Civic participation
Mentor, together with Marian Dumitru, at the first civic hackathon run by Asociația Grupul Verde. Young people aged 13–21 built prototypes on school drop-out, food waste and air quality; the local authority reviewed one of them.
Project · Youth, gender & activism
Soft skills trainer and career adviser for the women and girls in the programme, then project assistant and digital skills trainer from May to November 2025.
Programme · Digital education & AI
Code.org, Scratch and Marty the Robot workshops for groups of children and teenagers. She works with the association’s team of trainers on the youth-built living labs.
Programme · Environment & biodiversity
She builds Arduino and micro:bit devices with young people to measure air, water and soil, and works with the environmental data, from the measurement protocol to publication.
Communication · Asociația Grupul Verde
Content, press releases, social media, the website and media relations for the association’s projects, following each funder’s visibility rules.
Key skills
Experience
From the annual activity reports and the TechWomen Empowerment Hub programme reports.
Vrancea
Orange Digital Center
Fondation Orange · Vrancea
Volunteer · Vrancea
Vrancea
Contact
elena.madalina@grupulverde.ro · +40 374 962 748
Portfolio 2026–2027
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.
Villages learn to withstand drought, floods, price shocks and isolation. Young people map local resources and build simple alert tools.
Target programme: Horizon Europe
Linked to: Rural communities, Resilient Communities
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
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
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
A larger project with partners from several countries that turns young people’s prototypes into resources used by schools and NGOs.
Target programme: Erasmus+
Linked to: About the Hub, For funders
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