A unique trek of financial literacy by the Institute of Financial Literacy to the border islands of the country, with the assistance and under the auspices of the Aegean and Island Policy Secretariat, in order to strengthen Social Cohesion in the Islands.

“European Reliance S.A. Insurance Company” in cooperation with the Institute of Financial Literacy have edited a special feature in the quarterly ViSION newsletter dedicated to financial literacy.

Global Money Week is an annual global awareness-raising campaign on the importance of ensuring that young people, from an early age, are financially aware, and are gradually acquiring the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours necessary to make sound financial decisions and ultimately achieve financial well-being and financial resilience.

The project Sustainable Financial Literacy (SFinLit) is implemented under the Erasmus+ program and focuses on strengthening Digital, Financial Literacy as well as the Skills of “how to learn” in School Education.

“@xia Programme” is an innovative and specialized educational platform (microsite) with the aim of cultivating financial knowledge and financial empowerment of students.

Online training program with total duration of 3 months (50 teaching hours) covering the various aspects of Personal Finance. The program analyzes the basic financial concepts that everyone should know, offering holistic financial knowledge on the daily aspects of life.

The book “First Financial Steps” deals with the basic principles governing personal finance and is aimed at young people who are taking their first steps towards financial independence. The book offers the reader the necessary first information for understanding the importance of the financial choices that we are asked to make every day and that many times can affect our lives.

The exhibition was conducted by the Bank of Greece with the aim of presenting the new payment systems to the public using a series of interactive tools. Young and old alike can learn about the history of payments and explore the most sophisticated means by which we will buy goods and services in the future. From cards and cheques to augmented reality and the “Internet of Things”, the “ePayments roadmap” exhibition introduces visitors to complex concepts and systems with apps, videogames and infographics.

The Hellenic Economic Olympiad is an annual student competition of economic knowledge for high school students from 14 to 20 years old and aims to contribute to the further development of students’ skills and knowledge in the field of economics.

In the framework of the international Forum Family Economy Week 2021 / The Energy of the New Economy, an online discussion was held on “The Importance of Financial Literacy for the Greek family”.

An innovative and fully illustrated financial education and financial empowerment book/textbook for children up to 12 years old, as well as their parents and teachers. The book is a modern dictionary of economic, financial as well as technological terms, which includes more than 120 entries and accompanied by 9 short stories that help to improve their understanding.

The FINMAN project is a personal finance management programme. Eight organisations from seven European countries aim to promote financial literacy among EU citizens and offer practical guidance on this issue.

The Money Matters Project is implemented under the Erasmus+ programme and aims to produce new educational practices that will impact adult education by supporting family learning through the provision of new digital educational tools.

Τhe European Central Bank Simulation Conference is one of the most important student activities at national level, as students of economics, law and European studies gain important knowledge on contemporary economic issues. Since 2019 it has been supported and hosted by the Bank of Greece, while in 2020 the findings of the conference were included – through the ECB Listen programme – in the first ECB strategy review in 18 years.

The training programme “Integrated set of actions to address the phenomenon of financial illiteracy” is implemented in the framework of the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education and Life-long Learning 2014-2020” and aims to expand the basic financial knowledge of the population in order to enable the rational management of money and the avoidance of wrong choices.

The workshop was organised in July 2022 in the framework of the second Hellenic Economic Olympiad, in order to provide answers to important issues of Economic Literacy: Is financial education present in Greece and if so, to what extent? How financially literate is the younger generation and how much are the citizens in general? What can we learn from the financial literacy programmes of other developed countries and especially our European neighbours?