2023National infrastructure
EduLib national virtual library
Ministry of Education, Romania · consortium
Record
National virtual library · delivered
European Digital Education Infrastructure
Sovereign Learning Infrastructure.
Ascendia operates digital education infrastructure for European public institutions, EU programmes, and regulated enterprises — at national scale, with listed-company governance.
Ascendia S.A. · BVB: ASC · Listed 7 July 2016 · LEI 315700DLIITW8APMVF93 · ISIN ROASCIACNOR9
Microsoft AI for AccessibilityOnly European education companySource · Microsoft AI for Accessibility Hall of Fame
European Commission DECDigital Education Content expert groupSource · EC Register of Expert Groups · DEC member listing
Council of EuropeE-learning provider evidence
Google Scale Tier / AI for GovTechProgramme · product result · infrastructure scaleSource · BVB current reports: AI for GovTech (2025) · Companion (Apr 2026) · Scale Tier (May 2026)
NVIDIA ConnectAI development programmeSource · BVB current report (NVIDIA Connect acceptance, 08 Jul 2025, EN)
Deloitte / BVBRecognition and listed governanceSource · BVB · ASC instrument page (filings, governance reports)
Proof at national scale
Capacity built for national education systems.
- measured views
- 14m¹
- LIVRESQ activity over the last 12 months; evidence of a dissemination layer already in motion.
- creators
- 158,900²
- LIVRESQ creator ecosystem in the public evidence record.
- institutions and companies
- 7,260+²
- Organisations represented in the LIVRESQ ecosystem in the public evidence record.
- pupils
- 700,000+³
- EduLib pupil reach from the official Ascendia portfolio.
- teachers
- 100,000³
- EduLib teacher reach from the official Ascendia portfolio.
- teachers trained
- 60,000⁴
- National Digital Pedagogy evidence in the public capability record.
Sources
- as of 2026-05Google Analytics 4, 8 May 2025 - 8 May 2026
- as of 2026-03Ascendia Capability Statement 2026, p. 4
- as of 2026-04Ascendia portfolio · EduLib
- as of 2026-03Ascendia Capability Statement 2026 · National Digital Pedagogy
Three institutional paths
Three audiences, three full dossiers.
Each route carries its own sourced proof, named officer, downloadable one-pager, and operating record. No generic discovery surface, no shared product page.
Public sector · Solutions 01
Public sector
Ministries, regional authorities, and national agencies. Public delivery record at national scale.
EduLib · ADR PNRR · National Digital Pedagogy
Routed to Dragos Vasilica
Open the public-sector dossierEU programmes · Solutions 02
EU research and innovation
Horizon, Erasmus+, and Digital Europe coordinators. Policy seat, EU delivery record, Scale Tier infrastructure support, and a 14m-view LIVRESQ dissemination layer already in motion.
Google Scale Tier · 14m views · EMPASS · EC DEC
Routed to Gabriel Garban
Open the consortium dossierRegulated enterprise · Solutions 03
Regulated enterprise
Regulated organisations where workforce readiness, compliance learning, and auditability are operational obligations.
BVB: ASC · GDPR · Accessibility · CoffeeLMS
Routed to Gabriel Lazar
Open the governance dossierOperating picture
What Ascendia operates today, on the public record.
National-infrastructure programmes, European partnerships, and the technology programmes that anchor Ascendia's AI for GovTech direction (Google · NVIDIA). The scale figures are consolidated in the national-scale proof ledger above; this registry shows the operating records behind them.
- 2026National infrastructure
National Digital Pedagogy
Twelve teacher-training consortiums
Record
OER production infrastructure
- 2026National infrastructure
ADR digital-skills programme (PNRR)
Authority for the Digitalization of Romania
Record
PNRR digital-skills delivery
- 2023National infrastructure
"First Aid" national first-aid campaign
InfoCons & Bucharest-Ilfov Ambulance Service consortium
Record
BVB current report · public campaign
- 2024National infrastructure
"Protection through Education" — national cybersecurity-awareness campaign
Romanian Police · DNSC · ARB consortium
Record
BVB current report · national campaign
- 2026European programme
EMPASS Erasmus+ Forward Looking
European Union consortium, JA Europe
Record
Erasmus+ Forward Looking
- 2024European programme
UiPath Academic Alliance
UiPath higher-education partnership
Record
Academic Alliance partner record
- 2025–2026Technology programme
Google AI for GovTech → Companion → Scale Tier
Google for Startups · BVB records Sep 2025 / Apr 2026 / May 2026
Record
Programme · product · infrastructure
- 2025Technology programme
NVIDIA Connect · ISV programme
NVIDIA · BVB current report 8 Jul 2025
Record
BVB-filed ISV programme
- 2024European programme
European Commission DEC expert group
European Commission · Digital Education Content
Record
European Commission expert group
AI for public sector
AI as governed public capacity, for institutional use.
Programme: Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for GovTech (2025-09)
Result: LIVRESQ Companion · 10,000+ teachers · BVB current report (2026-04)
Ascendia frames AI as governed public capacity: teacher support, responsible deployment, verified partners, and institutional administration.
Public-sector AI must reduce administrative burden without weakening sovereignty, transparency, accessibility, or institutional control.
LIVRESQ Companion (the AI teacher assistant launched in 2026 as a result of Ascendia's selection in Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for GovTech in September 2025), NVIDIA Connect, and National Digital Pedagogy place Ascendia's AI direction inside real education-system capacity building rather than speculative product messaging.
Google record — programme + product + Scale Tier¹
Three records on the public sheet: (01) LIVRESQ selected for Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for GovTech (Sep 2025); (02) LIVRESQ Companion launched as a direct result (Apr 2026); (03) LIVRESQ accepted into Google for Startups Scale Tier for cloud and AI infrastructure support (May 2026).
A dissemination layer already in motion.²
Responsible AI tools need real adoption environments. LIVRESQ recorded 14 million measured views over the last 12 months, giving AI-supported teacher workflows an active public-interest learning surface rather than a cold launch channel.
NVIDIA Connect³
Ascendia reported acceptance into NVIDIA Connect, strengthening the AI development layer behind its learning infrastructure direction.
National Digital Pedagogy⁴
AI and digital capability are positioned inside public capacity building: 60,000 teachers, more than 30,000 OERs, and 12 training consortiums.
Sources
Technical programme · 2025
NVIDIA Connect
ISV programme acceptance — strengthens the AI development layer behind Ascendia's learning infrastructure direction.
Acceptance recorded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange transparency channel, not in marketing collateral.
Source of record
BVB current report · 08 Jul 2025 (EN)National Capacity Programmes
National-scale education infrastructure, proven through deployment.
EduLib proves national digital library infrastructure. National Digital Pedagogy proves OER production capacity, teacher enablement, and reusable public educational assets at system scale.
Flagship public infrastructure
EduLib national virtual library
EduLib is a nationally implemented virtual library for gymnasium-level education and the first project of its kind in Romania, with individualized and assisted learning components. Ascendia participated in the EduLib consortium; its contracted contribution covered LIVRESQ direct licensing for the Ministry of Education and e-learning content development services for gymnasium-level lessons.
- pupils
- 700,000+¹
- teachers
- 100,000¹
Documented public work
- Ascendia participation through the EduLib consortium
- Ministry of Education licensing on record
- National virtual library deployment for gymnasium education
- Public delivery milestone recorded for December 2023
- National virtual library for gymnasium level
- Ministry of Education direct licensing through LIVRESQ
- E-learning content development services
- Form of participation: Consortium
- Project delivery recorded for December 2023
Sources
- as of 2026-04Ascendia portfolio · EduLib
National OER infrastructure
National Digital Pedagogy: OER production capacity at system scale
Ascendia supports the institutional production of reusable educational content at national scale. The National Digital Pedagogy implementation combines teacher capacity building, Open Educational Resource production, and training-consortium delivery into public education infrastructure.
- teachers
- 60,000¹
- Open Educational Resources
- 30,000+¹
- training consortiums
- 12¹
Documented public work
- 12 training consortiums in a national implementation structure
- 30,000+ reusable OERs produced for public education use
- March 2026 delivery milestone in the public capability record
- National implementation for digital pedagogy capacity
- OER production capacity at system scale
- Reusable public educational assets for K12
- LIVRESQ direct licensing for training consortiums
Sources
Institutional voices
Three audiences. Three institutional voices on record.
One on record from public-interest delivery. Two more in active outreach — public-sector and consortium counterparties.
Public-interest deliveryOn record
“Ascendia is a company that is easy to work with from start to finish of your project. Their team listens to your needs, answers your questions quickly, and makes the whole process smooth and stress-free. We look forward to working together again.”
Olesea Moghilda
Project Officer, Council of Europe
Mar 2026
Recorded in the structured feedback returned to Ascendia after delivery of a digitalised institutional learning module. Rated 5/5 across visual design, learner engagement, deadline adherence, and content guidance.
Read the institutional feedbackPublic-authority counterpartyOn record
“The Ascendia team have proved to have knowledge, competence and experience not only related to digitalization of courses or technical aspects. What was really important is the showed diligence related to all aspects of the course, including content, thus taking responsibility for the quality of the digitalized course as a whole product.”
Catalina Scortescu
Legal Expert, Congress of Local Authorities from Moldova (CALM)
Mar 2026
Recorded in the structured feedback returned to Ascendia after delivery of a digitalised legal-content learning module. Rated 5/5 on visual design, deadline adherence, and content guidance, 4/5 on exercises and interactions.
Read the institutional feedbackRegulated enterprise counterpartyOn record
“With Ascendia, we have been able to build a partnership centered on both their and our interest for the development of our colleagues’ competences.”
Cezar Barladeanu
Manager of Organisational Development and Engagement, CEC Bank
Aug 2024
Recorded in the published customer-success archive after deployment of CoffeeLMS, LIVRESQ, and the eJourneys catalogue across more than 5,000 employees of CEC Bank, one of Romania’s largest financial institutions. Use case spans digital-skills training, bespoke internal courses, and emerging-technology curricula (AI, Cloud, Blockchain, RPA).
EAA enforcement · June 2025 · Directive (EU) 2019/882
Procurement implication · June 2025
The European Accessibility Act mandates EN 301 549 conformance for digital services entering the EU market. Non-conformant digital products are disqualified from public tender evaluation under the EAA's product/service scope from June 2025.
Inclusion is infrastructure, not an optional interface layer.
Ascendia has held Microsoft AI for Accessibility Hall of Fame recognition since 2018. EN 301 549 conformance is built into the platform architecture — not added as a compliance overlay. For procurement evaluators, this resolves EAA tender requirements before the question is asked.
Microsoft AI for Accessibility Hall of Fame
Accessibility is treated as strategic public-interest proof, not as a product afterthought or a procurement checkbox.
European public procurement pressure
European Accessibility Act 2025 and the Web Accessibility Directive make inclusive digital education a compliance and legitimacy requirement.
Accessible by default
The homepage posture is that education infrastructure should be usable across ability, context, institution, and device from the start.
Regulatory framework
The legal floor for European public-procurement evaluation.
- European Accessibility Act
- Directive (EU) 2019/882
- Web Accessibility Directive
- Directive (EU) 2016/2102
- Public-procurement standard
- EN 301 549 · WCAG 2.1 AA
- External recognition
- Microsoft AI for Accessibility · Hall of Fame
2025–2027 regulatory clock
Four mandates driving institutional procurement now.
NIS2, DORA, the European Accessibility Act, and the EU AI Act each impose training or conformance obligations on public-sector and regulated-enterprise buyers. Procurement can be justified on mandate grounds before a business case is filed.
Oct 2024 transposition
NIS2 Directive
Cybersecurity training obligations for operators of essential services and digital infrastructure.
Ascendia answer
Jan 2025 in force
DORA
ICT risk training requirements for financial entities under the Digital Operational Resilience Act.
Ascendia answer
Jun 2025
European Accessibility Act
EN 301 549 conformance mandatory for public-sector digital services entering the EU market.
Ascendia answer
2025–2027 tiered
EU AI Act
AI literacy obligations for deployers of high-risk AI systems under Articles 4 and 50. LIVRESQ Companion (10,000+ teachers, BVB Apr 2026) is anchored under the Technology and AI desk (Gabriel Lazar) — governed AI capacity, not speculative product.
Ascendia answer
Why Ascendia, institutionally
Four institutional anchors that few European digital-education counterparties carry together.
Read once and forwarded inside any procurement evaluation, consortium discussion, or compliance review. No competitor names. No marketing claims. Each anchor resolves to a public source.
01Listed accountability
A public counterparty, not a private vendor.¹
Ascendia is listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB: ASC) since 2016. Annual reports, governance disclosures, and audited financials are public record. Procurement teams gain a counterparty subject to capital-markets disclosure obligations — most digital-education vendors are private and opaque.
Public listing
BVB: ASC · since 2016
02Inside the room
A seat in the European Commission Digital Education Content expert group.²
Ascendia holds a seat in the EC DEC expert group — the body shaping European digital-education content policy. Few technical counterparties hold one. Coordinators get policy literacy alongside execution; ministries get a partner already aligned with the Commission frame.
European Commission
DEC expert group · since 1 July 2024
03Independent recognition
Recognised by Microsoft for accessibility, by the Council of Europe for delivery.³
Microsoft AI for Accessibility Hall of Fame — recognition the company carries as the only European education-sector entrant. Council of Europe filed structured institutional feedback after delivery of a public-interest learning module. Recognition is third-party and verifiable, not paid promotion.
Recognition
MS Hall of Fame · CoE structured feedback
04Audited operating record
National-scale public deployments with sourced evidence.⁴
EduLib reaches 700,000+ pupils and 100,000 teachers through the Ministry of Education consortium. National Digital Pedagogy reaches 60,000 teachers across twelve training consortiums. The ADR digital-skills programme reaches 2,000 SMEs. Each programme has a named public counterparty, a delivery year, and a source line.
Public scale
700,000+ pupils · 100,000 teachers · 2,000 SMEs
Sources
- as of 2026-04Annual Report 2025 (BVB filed)
- as of 2024-07EC DEC expert group selection notice (1 July 2024)
- as of 2026-03Council of Europe structured feedback record (Mar 2026)
- as of 2026-03Ascendia portfolio · EduLib; Capability Statement 2026
EU programme capacity
A consortium partner with dissemination capacity already in the system.
Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, and Digital Europe proposals need partners that can execute, evidence, disseminate, and remain operational after the project cycle. Ascendia brings European programme literacy, institutional credibility, and a LIVRESQ dissemination layer with 14 million measured views over the last 12 months.
EMPASS programme evidence¹
Erasmus+ Forward Looking participation places Ascendia inside European-level education innovation work with a defined public-interest delivery frame.
EU-funded programme, European level, completion recorded for December 2026.
UiPath Academic Alliance support²
The Academic Alliance work demonstrates how Ascendia can support structured skills adoption across higher-education institutions and student populations.
1,100 higher-education institutions and 50,000 students in the evidence deck.
A dissemination layer already in motion.³
For consortium coordinators, dissemination is not a final-report activity. LIVRESQ provides an active learning environment for distributing, measuring, and sustaining public-interest education outputs.
14 million measured views recorded over the last 12 months.
European Commission DEC participation⁴
Ascendia contributes to the Digital Education Content expert group, a direct signal for coordinators that need policy literacy as well as execution.
European Commission Digital Education Content Expert Group.
Dissemination channel
14m³
measured views
A dissemination layer already in motion.
For coordinators, Ascendia is not only a software contributor. It is a route to dissemination, adoption evidence, national-scale training context, and institutional reporting through an active public-interest learning environment.
Sources
- as of 2026-03Ascendia Capability Statement 2026 (EMPASS section)
- as of 2026-03Ascendia Capability Statement 2026 (UiPath Academic Alliance)
- as of 2026-05Google Analytics 4, 8 May 2025 - 8 May 2026
- as of 2024-07EC DEC expert group selection notice (1 July 2024)
European alignment
Policy literacy, public-sector delivery, and dissemination infrastructure in one operating partner.
Erasmus+ · 2026
EMPASS Forward Looking
European Union consortium · JA Europe
Programme artefact
Each programme entry is sourced from a verifiable project record — EC register, funding body documentation, or BVB current report.
Institutional desk
Three named tracks. Counterparty, not contact form.
Each desk publishes a direct address, a service-level commitment, and the operating record routed through it. Procurement teams should not need a discovery call to find a counterparty.
Desk 01 · Public-sector RFIs
Procurement, ministries, and national agencies.
Dragos Vasilica
Director of Business Development — direct route for ministries, regional authorities, and national agencies
Send RFIs, RFPs, framework-agreement enquiries, and procurement-readiness questions here. Acknowledgement is logged on receipt; written response is returned inside the SLA. Procurement copy can also be routed through gov@ascendia.eu.
- RFI acknowledgement
- 3 working days
- Written RFI response
- 10 working days
- Procurement document exchange
- PGP / S/MIME on request
Operating record routed through this desk
- EduLib national virtual library — Ministry of Education, Romania (2023)
- ADR digital-skills programme (PNRR) — Authority for Digitalization (2026)
- National Digital Pedagogy — twelve teacher-training consortiums (2026)
Counterparty registry
- VAT·CUI 21482859
- Registration·Reg. Comm. J40/6604/2007
- LEI·LEI 315700DLIITW8APMVF93
- Listing·BVB: ASC
Desk 02 · EU programmes & consortia
Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, Digital Europe coordinators.
Gabriel Garban
European Funding & Grants Lead — consortium partner enquiries, Letter-of-Intent requests, dissemination work packages
For coordinators evaluating a credible, EU-literate technical partner: a Letter of Intent can be returned inside the SLA. Concept-stage review is available before LoI for proposals still in formation. Programme correspondence can also be routed through research@ascendia.eu.
- Letter of Intent turnaround
- 5 working days
- Concept-stage review
- on request, before LoI
- Dissemination proof
- 14m measured views · LIVRESQ
Operating record routed through this desk
- EMPASS — Erasmus+ Forward Looking, JA Europe consortium (completion 2026)
- European Commission DEC — Digital Education Content expert group (2024)
- UiPath Academic Alliance — 1,100 higher-education institutions
Counterparty registry
- VAT·CUI 21482859
- Registration·Reg. Comm. J40/6604/2007
- LEI·LEI 315700DLIITW8APMVF93
- Listing·BVB: ASC
Desk 03 · R&D, platform, compliance & governance
Research depth, EC DEC frame, technical evidence review, DPA review.
Gabriel Lazar
Research & Development Director — EC DEC member, technical evidence, accessibility, AI governance, and regulated-enterprise architecture
For regulated organisations, banks, utilities, public contractors, and EU coordinators: send platform-depth questions, R&D evidence reviews, accessibility-conformance questions, AI-governance posture, audit requests, and sub-processor enquiries here. Gabriel Lazar brings a physics, engineering, spectroscopy, sustainability, and project-management background to the R&D desk. DPA drafts and signed returns are routed through the Data Protection Officer at dpo@ascendia.eu; the desk returns the signed agreement inside the SLA.
- R&D / technical evidence review
- 5 working days
- DPA review and signed return
- 10 working days
- Sub-processor disclosure
- available on request · dpo@ascendia.eu · 5 working days
- Accessibility conformance
- interim self-assessment at /legal/accessibility
Operating record routed through this desk
- European Commission Digital Education Content expert-group frame
- R&D leadership across education, e-learning, and environmental-protection projects
- Listed-company governance posture — BVB: ASC since 2016
- CoffeeLMS regulated training delivery for enterprise compliance
Counterparty registry
- Legal entity·Ascendia S.A.
- VAT·CUI 21482859
- Registration·Reg. Comm. J40/6604/2007
- LEI·LEI 315700DLIITW8APMVF93
- Listing·BVB: ASC
- ISIN·ISIN ROASCIACNOR9
Service-level commitment
- RFIs acknowledged within 3 working days
- Letter of Intent turnaround within 5 working days
- DPA review and signed return within 10 working days
Recognition & affiliations
Evidence ordered by institutional weight.
Institutional engagement, technology programme participation, and enterprise delivery — each category carries a different class of evidence and a different counterparty relationship.
Institutional
European Commission DEC
Digital Education Content expert group · active 2024–
Council of Europe
e-learning provider · structured feedback on record · Mar 2026
Ministry of Education
EduLib national virtual library · consortium · delivery milestone Dec 2023
Authority for the Digitalization of Romania
ADR PNRR digital-skills programme · 2,000 SMEs · 2024
Technology & Research
Microsoft AI for Accessibility
Hall of Fame recognition · 2018
Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for GovTech
LIVRESQ accepted in first EMEA cohort · Sep 2025
LIVRESQ Companion (result of Google AI for GovTech)
First contract: 10,000+ teachers, 800 schools · BVB Apr 2026
Google for Startups Scale Tier
LIVRESQ infrastructure milestone · BVB May 2026
NVIDIA Connect
AI programme participation · 2024
UiPath Academic Alliance
higher-education adoption support · 2024
Deloitte Impact Stars
Technology Fast 50 CE · 2024
Public-record cadence
Four recent institutional moves.
Periodic reports, current reports, institutional delivery signals, and European practice items. Updated when the record moves — not on a marketing cadence.
Current report
BVB periodic report · Q1 2026
27 May 2026
Q1 2026 quarterly report: profitable growth and high liquidity
Ascendia published its unaudited Q1 2026 financial report, with RON 15.7m operating revenue, RON 9.0m operating profit, RON 7.5m net profit and 47.94% net margin.
Technology programme
BVB current report · infrastructure milestone
11 May 2026
LIVRESQ accepted into Google for Startups Scale Tier
BVB current report records a third Google-linked public milestone: Scale Tier infrastructure support for LIVRESQ, including Google Cloud and AI technologies for product development and European scaling.
Current report
09 Apr 2026
LIVRESQ Companion launched as result of Google AI for GovTech
Ascendia filed the English current report for LIVRESQ Companion, the AI teacher assistant whose development was accelerated through Ascendia’s participation in Google for Startups Growth Academy: AI for GovTech (cohort selected Sep 2025). First contract reaches 10,000+ teachers across 800 schools in Romania.
Institutional delivery
Institutional feedback and public-delivery context
Mar 2026
Council of Europe and CALM feedback validates delivery discipline
Published institutional feedback records accessibility, navigation, responsiveness, and course-structure support across public-interest learning work.