The financial education it benefits us all and it is especially relevant for kids to learn many basic concepts from a young age. And so they can learn the value of money, the importance of saving and the elderly teaches us to be responsible citizens and allows us to plan important economic decisions in life such as access to private property or savings for the future.
The project of financial education Edufinet has been awarded by the magazine Economic News. Edufinet started in 2007, being one of the pioneering financial education projects in the country. It is developed by Unicaja in collaboration with the International University of Andalusia (UNIA), the University of Malaga (UMA), the Pablo de Olavide University (UPO), the University of Jaén (UJA), the University of Córdoba (UCO), the University of Almería ( UAL), and the National University of Distance Education in Málaga (UNED Málaga). It is a project born of the corporate social responsibility of these entities and that responds to the initiatives of international organizations such as the OECD, in which it recommends promoting education and financial knowledge among citizens.
Since Edufinet It was launched at the end of 2007, more than 40,000 people have participated in conferences or face-to-face meetings of this financial education project, of which about 28,000 corresponds to the youth group. In addition, the Edufinet Project page has since that date two million accumulated visits, with queries and access from 180 countries.
He Edufinet project It has three main lines of action:
- Publication of a Financial Guide, which is already in its fifth edition, and which have been edited 23,000 copies
- Maintenance of the contents of the financial education portal that are permanently updated and that includes two specialized sites: EDUFIEMP, which is a portal for Financial Education for Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs and Edufinext designed for children and adolescents and with content adapted to their knowledge
- Realization of the Financial Education Days for young people, of which the sixth edition and the ones they've been through 28,000 students of all Andalusian geography and Ciudad Real
Congratulations to Edufinet for its prize and for its dissemination work to know financial concepts and thus allow citizens, current and future, to have knowledge that allows us to adjust the important savings and investment decisions of a lifetime.
