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Text: Kristof De Witte
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In the Flemish Community of Belgium, the ‘King Baudouin Foundation’ governs a Fund for Financial Literacy. The Fund is chaired by Kristof De Witte, also coordinator of the EUfin project.
In 2019-2020, the Fund supported the BELvue museum in developing the exhibition on financial literacy entitled 'Mystery of Finance, the ministry that reveals everything about money and finance!', This financial literacy museum will soon be opened to people from the educational sector. If you are in Brussels, you can visit the museum: https://www.belvue.be/nl/activities/interactieve-tentoonstelling/mysterie-van-financien
Moreover, thanks to a new call of the Fund for Financial Literacy, teachers who aim to contribute to the financial literacy of young people in secondary can receive up to € 5,000 in support to develop your idea in concrete terms. Due to the new financial literacy competences in Flemish secondary education young people gain financial knowledge and confidence, which will help them make informed financial choices at different times in their lives. The Fund for Financial Literacy wants to encourage teachers in the Flemish Community to bring financial subjects, questions and concepts to young people in a creative and original didactic way.
In the current project call, the Fund wishes to further strengthen the financial literacy of young people and invites teachers and management of secondary schools to give concrete form and make known their good ideas for promoting education on financial topics.
The Fund is launching four project calls: this one aimed at schools in the Flemish Community, another that focuses on associations and organizations in the Flemish Community and identical calls in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The total budget for the four calls is € 145,000. Feel free to spread the word!