D.G.T. (Do Great Things) Association is a Romanian non-governmental organization whose mission is to facilitate networking, exchange of experiences, and voluntary activities for high school and university students, young entrepreneurs, and disadvantaged youth. It organizes local workshops and events on topics like intercultural exchange, non-formal education, and sustainable development. Internationally, D.G.T. has participated in numerous youth exchanges, trainings, and conferences in Europe to discuss social, cultural, political, and environmental issues, gaining experience working with other NGOs on projects funded by the EU and Council of Europe.

1. Who are we?
We are called D.G.T. (Do Great Things) Association and our main targets are high-school
and university students, young entrepreneurs and disadvantaged young people in Romania.
We work with volunteers from all universities in Bucharest (especially the Academy of
Economics, the largest economics university from South-East Europe) and we collaborate
with other youngsters all across Romania.
Briefly, D.G.T. Association is a non-governmental organization that was born from the
passion of a few youngsters who wanted to take action and make a change in the society they
were living into. D.G.T.’s founding members have also the desire to give back all the things
they have learned and experienced during previous years of volunteering.
D.G.T.’s mission focuses on national and international networking among young people,
students, trainers and teachers of different nationalities, cultures and backgrounds. It tackles
topics such as inter-cultural exchange, non-formal education, ecology, climate change,
sustainable development, European citizenship and international politics (geopolitics). All
these are added to facilitate the accumulation of experience by young people, through
voluntary activities, allowing them to put into practice the theory learned in school.
What is our experience?
Among our local activities I can enumerate intercultural workshops, various social events,
round-tables and conferences. As of September 2011, D.G.T. together with 13 other
Romanian youth NGOs will participate in the national scale project "Education Otherwise",
funded by the EU Commission through Youth in Action (Action 5.1). In addition, this
October we are increasing the „eco-spirit” among young people from 5 countries by
organizing our first youth exchange in Romania: „Eco-Volunteer Citizenship”.
Regarding international activities like youth exchanges, trainings, conferences and other
events of this sort, I can say that our members have very good experience, as we have worked
with many foreign NGOs in elaborating and implementing such projects (YiA and CoE
financing schemes). Activities have been performed in both EU (Germany, Italy, France,
Luxembourg, Poland, Greece, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech Republic) and non-EU (Turkey,
Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania, Macedonia) countries.
Themes of our past projects were related to social problems (migration, integration, fighting
poverty, active citizenship), cultural aspects (respect for diversity, peaceful co-existence),
political issues (democracy, freedom of speech), ecology, sports and arts (painting,
photography, singing, dancing). Therefore, we have quite enough experience in a variety of
topics.
D.G.T. Team