ROC project informed teenagers, communities, changed attitudes, practices for environmental protection; participants acquired skills through hands-on, interactive activities using experiential learning; they carried out collective projects that generated change at individual/ school/ community level, through learning outcomes; they obtained complex learning experiences, combining non-formal, informal education, respecting principles of education for sustainable development (student-centered, critical thinking, systemic thinking, partnership, participation, connected to children’s real lives and communities, oriented towards solutions and actions). ROC activities reconnected people with nature through a direct emotional relationship with the environment. Teachers integrated education for sustainable development into school curriculum, through a curriculum offer at the school's decision, adaptable to the local context, linking environmental protection themes with economy, society, culture, education, heritage, health, social inclusion. Teachers created activities that sparked students' curiosity, using inquiry learning, a method in which students learn by asking questions, discovering the answers themselves, and sharing them.
School No. 195 became Green School in 2018. The teachers involved used experience from the training course for Green Schools. They had developed climate education, environmental, recycling activities with students in 2018-2021. Organizing extracurricular environmental and sustainability activities, they noticed students took part gladly to these activities, involving friends, family. They wanted to exchange experience with other teachers & students from schools in Europe. ROC coordinator coordinated Green Schools in Bucharest, in cooperation partnership with WWF, Greeninitiative, British Council, being involved in "Climate Action in Education" program for teachers, coordinated by WWF, participating to the training organized by British Council in February 2022. Participant teachers used skills acquired in the training course to improve students' education in climate action, sustainability, environmental awareness. ROC coordinator initiated "4/4 Project For Friends" in the school in 2018, cooperating with the US Embassy and American Council. Through ROC students discovered new climate action, recycling, becoming more creative, collaborating, sharing ideas with family and friends.