OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann has welcomed the Hungarian PÉNZ7 in a video message, highlighting Hungary's commitment to developing financial awareness and knowledge among young people.The 10th PÉNZ7 kicked off on 4 March 2024, with thousands of schools across the country hosting a week of unconventional lessons supported by expert volunteers. This school year, the focus is on "Financial Life Lessons" in finance and "Think and Do" in entrepreneurship.
More than 200,000 students in 1,250 schools across the country are already taking part in the programme, which aims to develop financial awareness and entrepreneurial skills through 15,000 extraordinary lessons, with the help of 650 volunteers. In 2015, Hungary joined the European Money Week initiative, which is taking place simultaneously in around 35 countries across Europe, as a founding member, and we have also been a key participant in the global Global Money Week programme organised by the OECD/INFE for several years.
Hungarian PÉNZ7 2024 will take place from 4 to 8 March across the country.
The Ministry of the Interior is the project leader, while the Ministry of National Economy, the Ministry of Finance, the Hungarian Banking Association, the Pénziránytű Foundation and the Junior Achievement Hungary Foundation are professional partners of the week - the partner organisations consider their mission to educate the future generation in financial and economic matters, to shape their entrepreneurial spirit and to manage financial situations in everyday life in a conscious way.
This school year, in view of the anniversary of PÉNZ7, the organisers have prepared a comprehensive theme entitled "Financial Life Lessons". Schools can choose from a range of different thematic packages and corresponding online games. The digital curricula of PÉNZ7, which develops entrepreneurial skills, have also been further expanded.
To help them prepare, all the learning materials from previous school years (including sample videos, e-learning materials and webinars) are available at www.penz7.hu. Whether it is in class, technology and engineering, maths or history, students can learn the basics of finance and management in an interactive and experiential way.
The PÉNZ7 programmes are further enriched by the possibility for students to participate in interesting competitions and contests, and for schools to host financial and entrepreneurial volunteers.
The PÉNZ7 programme also supports the implementation of the objectives of the National Strategy for Financial Awareness adopted by the Government in 2017 and the SME Strategy 2019-2030 (Strategy for the Strengthening of Hungarian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises), which aims to develop Hungarian micro, small and medium-sized enterprises.
The detailed programme of the week is available at www.penz7.hu.
(Translateted by: DeepL)