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PALERMO (ITALPRESS) – From this year the Month dedicated to financial education is November. The initiatives promoted by the Bank of Italy transmit basic skills to make more informed and peaceful daily life choices. In fact, financial education helps to choose the most convenient mortgage or the least risky investment, teaches one to defend oneself from online scams and to protect oneself from the behavior of intermediaries deemed incorrect.
The activities scheduled for the 2024-25 season have already been started, starting with those dedicated to the world of schools:
“Financial Education Project”, with webinars for teachers scheduled from November 5th, aimed at increasing the financial culture of the new generations.
“Playful-educational workshops” aimed at students during Financial Education Month and Global Money Week, an OECD initiative with the aim of raising young people’s awareness of the importance of making financial decisions consistent with their needs and possibilities.
PCTO (former school-work alternation), in which students in the final years of secondary schools live as protagonists the experience of a work process and create a product or service connected with one of the functions of the Bank of Italy.
“Let’s Invent a Banknote Award”, a contest between schools that compete to create a sketch of an imaginary banknote. The winning schools receive a monetary contribution for the development of educational activities.
Financial literacy activities go beyond the world of school and in collaboration with institutions, bodies, trade associations, trade unions, non-profit organisations, club services, include seminars for university students, micro, small and medium-sized entrepreneurs, individuals belonging to fragile categories such as women in vulnerable conditions, the blind and deaf, seniors who want to access the opportunities of home banking while avoiding the risks, students who attend the Provincial Centers for Adult Education, adult and minor prisoners.
“Financial education is the basis of every conscious choice regarding payment instruments, savings and investment, credit and social security, because it allows citizens to adopt thoughtful and therefore more prudent decisions, avoiding over-indebtedness and helping to prevent phenomenon of usury”, underlines Emanuele Alagna, Director of the Bank of Italy in Palermo, “and this is important for everyone, from the youngest to the less young. Financial education initiatives aim to reach a broad and diversified audience. I am thinking of young people in particular, who today find themselves facing significantly more difficult financial choices than those their parents faced; for them, economic and financial skills become a crucial point, because they are destined to have a profound impact on their future well-being, so much so that the Legislator recognized this social urgency with law no. 21/2024 which included financial education in the compulsory transversal teaching of civic education”.
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