Slovakia

Participating organisations: National Bank of Slovakia, Institute of Banking Education of the National Bank of Slovakia, Akadémia vzdelania OVB (nonprofit organisation Academy of Education OVB), OVB Allfinanz Slovensko a.s. Total number of participating organisations: 12 Number of children and young people reached directly: 217 Number of adults reached directly: 6,793 Number of people reached indirectly: 10,000

Throughout Global Money Week 2021, the National Bank of Slovakia, in cooperation with Institute of Banking Education of the National Bank of Slovakia, reached 67 students in four secondary schools through a three-hour online financial education talk, and several other activities. During GMW 2021, online financial literacy awareness sessions were offered to young people and adults as well as an online quiz on the topic “Do you have financial literacy at your fingertips?” More than 6,763 people joined the quiz and almost 60% of all answers were correct. Furthermore, this year people had an opportunity to read interesting articles, watch videos and interviews on various thematic areas of financial education made available for children, youth and adults in the new web portal of the National Bank of Slovakia here.

To celebrate GMW 2021, Akadémia vzdelania OVB held activities in 11 primary schools. A financial online game “Moja Família (My Family)” was organised for primary school children, with the aim of helping children to build better financial habits and skills.