Marian Dumitru is a Romanian certified trainer based in Vrancea County, specialising in digital literacy and artificial intelligence in education. As Director of Education Programmes at Asociația Grupul Verde, he leads the digital and AI education through which more than 560 young people in rural Romania have learned coding, robotics and networking since 2021, free of charge. He combines 19 years of technical experience (PHP, Symfony, web architecture) with adult training, project management and national and European fundraising.
Summary
Programmes and projects
Choose a programme or project to see his role, the period, partners and results.
Project · Digital education & AI
The association’s flagship programme: digital and AI training for children, young people, adults and older people at Orange Digital Center. He led the team, the schedule and reporting to the international funder.
Training · Artificial intelligence
An integrated AI literacy curriculum for teachers: how algorithms work, bias in data, responsible use of generative AI tools, robotics with Marty the Robot, Code.org, iNaturalist and PlantNet.
Project · Youth, gender & activism
A programme to close the digital gender gap: digital skills, independence and opportunities for women and girls in Vrancea, with SuperCoders workshops and EduHack.
Event · Civic participation
The first civic hackathon run by Asociația Grupul Verde, at Orange Digital Center. Young people aged 13–21, many from rural or vulnerable backgrounds, built prototypes on school drop-out, food waste and air quality.
Programme · Coding for children
First steps in coding for children aged 8–14, with Scratch, MakeCode and micro:bit: games about recycling and nature, simple sensors and their very first programs.
International recognition
The “Green Futures” application, on creativity and critical thinking through artificial intelligence, became Romania’s official nomination for the 2026 UNESCO King Hamad Prize for the Use of ICTs in Education.
Accredited course · Digital Education Foundation
A course for teachers across Romania, with 15 hours of live teaching and 10 hours of preparation and assessment per group. He prepared the programme’s full accreditation file.
Key skills
Professional experience
Online
Vrancea, Romania
Remote
Timișoara, Romania
Timișoara, Romania
Certifications and accreditations
Full portfolio of validated skills: credly.com/users/eu.marian-dumitru
Education
Artifex University of Bucharest
Colegiul Tehnic Media (Media Technical College)
Recognition
In the press
Contact
marian.dumitru@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.
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
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
A LIFE project built on what the living labs have learned: habitat restoration, digital monitoring and decisions taken with the community.
Target programme: LIFE
Linked to: Nature Restored, Funding
Citizens’ meetings between twinned towns, where young people present the technical solutions they built for their own town.
Target programme: CERV
Linked to: Civic and legal education, Partners & UNESCO
We help 18-year-olds from villages apply and travel; when they return, they tell the story of their trip on a digital map.
Target programme: Erasmus+
Linked to: Inclusion for Every Child, Second Chance
The second round of the year, for young people who started the summer with an idea and want to turn it into a project.
Target programme: European Solidarity Corps
Linked to: Youth, gender & activism, Civic and legal education