The new action plan for the period 2018-2019 has been presented, and it features new events such as the Edufinet International Congress on Financial Education (www.edufinetcongress.com), the new online and interactive format of the Financial Olympics, the publication of new editions of the Financial Guide and of the financial education comic, or the new Edufinet’s website, which is already active. These new initiatives join the training programme of Financial Education Conferences for groups such as young people, business owners or entrepreneurs.
Edufinet, promoted by Unicaja Banco and Fundación Unicaja, and which collaborates with 14 universities and more than 10 business institutions and organizations, is a financial education project pioneering in the country. It has been working for more than ten years with a very active programme and with the goal of bringing the financial world closer to citizens.
Edufinet, the financial education project promoted by Unicaja Banco and Fundación Unicaja, has held its annual meeting, where it has taken stock of the actions implemented during the school year 2017-2018 and where it has presented the action plan for the next period 2018-2019, which includes new features. Additionally, Edufinet’s new website was presented, with a more dynamic, intuitive and visual design.
Edufinet, which collaborates with 14 universities and more than 10 business institutions and organizations, is a financial education project pioneering in the country. It has been working for more than ten years with a very active programme and with the goal of bringing the financial world closer to citizens
So, during the latest school year, the Edufinet Project has carried out 70 training actions through which more than 400 workshops and lectures on financial education have been given in 330 centres. These have been attended by some 22,000 people from different groups and with different educational levels (young people, adults, senior citizens, high school students, university students, teachers, business owners and entrepreneurs, as well as immigrants). The different training sessions have been given by over 70 trainers who voluntarily collaborate with Edufinet. Among the different training actions developed during this year, the following should be highlighted: IX Conferences on Financial Education for Young People -carried out in nearly 270 educational centres in Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Extremadura, Ceuta and Melilla, with the participation of 18,300 students-; the VIII Financial Olympics -with the participation of nearly 800 students from 75 schools-; and workshops on general financial education, taxation, financial decisions for personal life, courses on investment in stock markets, entrepreneurship and how to set up a business, online courses, etc. All of these actions were aimed at university students, business owners, entrepreneurs, professionals, teachers, etc.
Edufinet’s website (www.edufinet.com) has received over 1.2 million visits during this school year, and it has just launched its new design, more dynamic, visual and intuitive, to facilitate navigation through its contents.
Furthermore, the Edufinet Project has received different awards this year, such as the Premio Especial del Jurado and the second prize in the category Young People, in the financial education awards given by the renowned magazine Actualidad Económica.
A summary of the Report for 2017-2018 will be published on Edufinet’s website in the next days.
Action plan for the next school year
The Edufinet Action Plan 2018-2019 features some new events and actions. The first one is the organization of the Edufinet International Congress on Financial Education ‘Realities and Challenges’, scheduled for 22 and 23 November in Malaga and with a clear goal: to raise awareness of the importance of financial education and to analyze the main challenges that it faces, as well as the best ways to improve its efficiency. The Congress website, www.edufinetcongress.com, is already active.
This new school year will also feature a special edition of the Financial Olympics (IX edition), to be held in September within the events to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Edufinet project. It will be an online Olympics through the Edufinet website. Also, the X Financial Olympics will involve a format change with regard to the traditional format of this educational competition: it will be an online interactive game to test the knowledge acquired by the participants in the financial education conferences.
Furhtermore, a new edition of the Financial Guide (sixth edition) and the second edition of the financial education comic will be published this year.
These new initiatives join the usual programme of Edufinet with workshops on financial education for young people and different courses to bring the world of finance and economics closer to the highest possible number of people and social groups.
Edufinet Project: bringing financial education closer to citizens
Edufinet was launched at the end of 2007, although its development began in 2005 within Unicaja. Since it was created, over 127,000 people have directly participated in the different workshops or meetings organized by this financial education project, of which 89,000 are young people. The Edufinet Project website (www.edufinet.com), has registered more than seven million visits, with consultations and access from nearly 180 countries. In addition to more than ten business institutions and organizations, 14 universities (including one from Portugal) collaborate with this programme. All of the previous have made Edufinet, promoted by Unicaja Banco and Fundación Unicaja, to be one of the first financial education projects launched in Spain, a work which has been recognized with several awards.
The Edufinet Project does not offer only a general website, but it has other two specific portals: the first one, addressed to business owners and entrepreneurs (Edufiemp), and the second one, on financial education for young people (Edufinext).
Publications on finance are other of the main lines of action of the Edufinet Project, such as the ‘Financial Guide’ and the ‘Financial Guide for Business Owners and Entrepreneurs’.
