Financial Education for children and young people in South East Europe
Text: Kristof De Witte
EUfin coordinator, Kristof De Witte, participates on the OECD high level conference on ‘Financial Education for children and young people in South East Europe: Policies, good practices and challenges in the new digital reality’.
He speaks on the second day of the online conference, which is dedicated to exploring new ways of reaching children and young people, leveraging digital technologies and other innovative means. He provides relevant examples of the adaptation of financial education policy design. Doing so, he relies on digital tools developed and experimentally tested in Flanders as part of the FWO-project ‘Financial Literacy @ School’, as well as on experiences in the European EUFin project.
As indicated in the agenda of the high level conference: “Digital delivery channels include a variety of tools, ranging from web portals and videos to online games, mobile apps and other mobile resources. They bring a series of advantages both for the users as well as for policy makers, such as easy access and flexibility, potentially higher reach and lower costs. Digital tools are particularly appealing to younger audiences. The session will focus on effective ways to use technology to deliver financial education to young people in and out of school settings. Some key considerations will be highlighted in relation to digital delivery of financial education, drawing on OECD work, such as the Report on digitalisation and financial literacy, the G20-OECD guidance on FCP in the digital age and the G20-OECD report on Advancing digital financial inclusion of youth.”
More information from: http://www.oecd.org/financial/education/meeting-financial-education-for-children-and-young-people-in-south-east-europe.htm