Project acronym: GROMADA

Funding: this project is financed under the Erasmus+ program (KA2 competition)

Project number: 2023-1-SE01-KA220-HED-000151848

Project duration: December 1, 2023 – November 30, 2025

Project website: https://gromada-erasmus.eu/

GROMADA aims to develop cooperation between European universities to support public and legal capacity for environmental recovery in Ukraine. As the war has brought a huge toll to Ukraine’s environment, the project fosters civic engagement in environmental citizen science in light of its legal dimension. By analysing barriers and opportunities for community engagement in environmental action and peacebuilding, GROMADA emphasises the legal aspects of environmental harm monitoring in war, empowering conflict-affected communities.

Through a series of actions designed together with university students, academic staff and citizens, GROMADA enhances capacity building for environmental advocacy and action taking. In this context, the role of technology is crucial in mapping the ways through which communities, individuals and universities can create new models of crisis resilience based on public participation in environmental monitoring and restoration in Ukraine. GROMADA recognises the importance of involving local communities in post-conflict recovery by adopting a “citizen science-law-environment” triad that empowers Ukrainian citizens in their struggle for environmental justice.