School Programmes

Key financial education school programmes are listed below.

Programmes

Government programmes | Civil society programmes | Private sector programmes

Government programmes

• Consumer Protection, Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia 
• Understanding Money , Australia Financial Literacy Foundation
• Economic and Financial Literacy, Austrian National Bank/Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB)
• Project to include financial literacy in the school curriculum, Ministry of Education of Brazil (MEC)  together with the WG.
  This project aims to reach 58 million children and 212000 schools in the long run. The phase one will probably cover two thousand schools by the end of 2009. Specific methodology to include financial concepts in mathematics, history, etc. will soon be written. Publications, a website and technical support to teachers of the first group of schools will be developped.
• Finance for students, Bulgarian Financial Supervision Commission
• Consumer Education and Financial Literacy Programs, The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC)
• Youth Website TES AFFAIRES.COM Think, save, act!, AMF Quebec, Canada
• Nupukas, Estonian Consumer Protection Board
• Partnership with the French Ministry of Education (in English) / Partenariat avec le Ministère de l'Éducation nationale (in French), Banque de France
• Financial Education for schoolchildren, Ministry of Public Education and the Bank of Italy
• Sorted, NZ Retirement Commission
• Iconomix, The Swiss National Bank
• Financial education program, U.S. President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, United States

Civil society programmes

• Credit Education Week Canada, Credit Canada and Capital One Canada
• Financial education programme, Canadian Bankers Association (CBA) www.cba.ca:
  The Canadian Bankers Association is the industry association representing domestic chartered banks and foreign bank subsidiaries operating in Canada and their 249,000 employees. The CBA provides consumer financial information to Canadian consumers, as well as a financial literacy seminar program for high-school students that reaches approximately 20,000 students per year.
• Financial education programmes for children and adults, a+b=3, www.aandbmake3.com  and Leverage Education Services, www.leverage.hk, Hong Kong China
• www.kursraumgeld.de: website of the "Initiative Finanzplatz Deutschland" providing information on "money" for pupils and school lessons.
• www.safety1st.de: website of a working group of German insurance companies providing information on "pension and social insurance" for pupils and school lessons.
• Savings Week, Think Point, Poland 
• Edufinet, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, Universidad de Málaga and Unicaja, Spain
• Financial education, Personal Finance Education Group (pfeg)
• MyBnk Programmes, MyBnk, United Kingdom
• The Stock Market Game, www.stockmarketgame.org, administered by the SIFMA Foundation for Investor Education, an affiliate of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, United States
• Child Social and Financial Education, Aflatoun (global reach)

Private sector programmes

• www.kursraumgeld.de, Germany. This website of the "Initiative Finanzplatz Deutschland" provides information on "money" for pupils as well as school lessons.
• www.safety1st.de: website of a working group of German insurance companies providing information on "pension and social insurance" for pupils and school lessons.
• PattiChiari Consortium - Italian Banking Association (ABI) and its committment in spreading financial education in Italy: as of 2003, ABI has pursued a distinctive strategy for improving transparency, comparability and for helping clients in making educated choices. These tasks are realized through “PattiChiari Consortium”, a separate legal entity, which provides customers with simple comparison tools to help them to better understand financial products and make informed choices and financial education programs. In accordance with this mission the Consortium launched several national financial education campaigns for students and schoolchildren:

  - Io e l’economia (Economics and me) 

  - PattiChiari con l’economia (PattiChiari with the economy)

• For teenagers and young people aged 13 to 19: Abacus Smart Money-User, Abacus for Money, Malaysia

• For kids aged 6 to 12: Abacus Smart Money Kid, Abacus for Money, Malaysia