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The main problems of environmental activism in Romania are the poor involvement of youth in small urban and rural areas. The present project proposes the formation in the small urban area of Sibiu County of an informal group of activists in the fields of the environment and climate changes, selected from the young locals with interests in the environment and from active citizens with interests in the field (teachers, members of NGOs, local administration), group which will be able to identify and propose solutions at local level for environmental problems. The selected members will be trained in the domain of biodiversity and protected area management, civic involvement actions, and will be provided with instruments constructed in the project for reaching the informal group’s purposes. The instruments provided by the project will consist of a mobile app connected to an on-line platform where the information regarding the identified environmental problems will be localized geographically and presented to the members of the group and to the general public, a blog section where the members of the group will be able to debate problems, present ideas and propose measures, and a Manual of the Environmental Activist, which will provide the basic information regarding the proper development of the group’s actions. The activities of the project will be conducted by the applicant, Association of Ecologist Students ASECO, together with its partner the Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, which will provide the specialists needed for the training. The specialist will offer also consultation to the future informal group and will actively participate in the construction of the instruments provided by the project, benefiting from the extensive and consistent experience of the team’s members in activities related to environmental protection and the management of biodiversity and protected areas.