This year, two new projects will be added to the program, aiming to disseminate financial and economic knowledge to an even wider audience through the use of digital education platforms and other multimedia channels. Both projects will feature the collaboration of FEBEF and CUNEF, and the participation of students from this university college as teaching volunteers.
For the third consecutive year, the AEB and its associated banks will mobilize nearly 600 volunteers, all bank employees, next March to visit a hundred schools across Spain and deliver financial education courses to over 7,000 students aged 13 to 15. All of this will be under the pedagogical supervision of the Junior Achievement Foundation and as a contribution to European Money Week, which is organized annually by the European Banking Federation in more than 30 European countries.
With these programs, the AEB and its associated banks aim to demonstrate that their contribution to Financial Education stems from a sustained and long-term commitment, as they are aware that only continuous and constant educational action can yield results in the medium term, leading to a better use and understanding of financial services by citizens.
In fact, the AEB’s partner banks have maintained their commitment to financial education for years as one of the basic pillars of their Corporate Social Responsibility strategy. This is reflected in the 223 initiatives developed up to 2015, in which more than 6,000 volunteers participated, dedicating 30,000 hours of their time and reaching 4,500,000 beneficiaries, mostly young people.
The AEB, for its part, and together with FEBEF, will continue to undertake new Financial Education projects this year, highlighting its relationship with CUNEF, the prestigious university college it owns through its Foundation, whose students will be involved in the new activities promoted by the Association. The two projects, to be launched soon, will intensify the Association’s efforts to bring financial reality closer to society and thereby generate the attitudes needed to develop healthy financial habits.
Furthermore, and in line with this commitment, the AEB has decided to actively collaborate with the events organized to celebrate this second Financial Education Day, an initiative that falls within the framework of the Financial Education Plan (PEF), to which the AEB is adhered on behalf of its associated banks, and which is promoted by the Bank of Spain and the National Securities Market Commission.
