Students aged 13 to 15 from 28 countries gathered in Brussels to participate in the final of the European financial education competition held on May 7. Their teams qualified for the final after winning the competition held at national level through the online platform Kahoot! Over 100,000 students participate in this competition, the European Money Quiz, designed by national banking associations under the coordination of the European Banking Federation.
In the final of the Spanish competition, held on April 9, approximately 1,200 students from 30 schools across Spain simultaneously answered questions about personal finance. Students from Divina Pastora school in Getafe, Madrid, obtained the highest number of correct answers in the shortest time, and two students, Iratxe and María, were chosen to represent Spain in the European final, where young people from 28 countries tested their financial knowledge. Students from Slovenia won the competition held in Brussels, while those from North Macedonia and Germany took second and third place, respectively.
For the President of the European Banking Federation, Wim Mijs, it is essential to provide young people with the necessary tools to face their future. “We developed the competition together with financial education experts working for banking associations in 30 countries, with a single objective: to get teachers and their students talking about the role of money in their lives. Increasingly, teachers recognize that financial education has become a life skill, especially in our digital era,” he said.
