Slovakia

GMW national coordinator: National Bank of Slovakia Participating organisations: Institute of Banking Education of the National Bank of Slovakia, n. o., Museum of Coins and Medals, schools Total number of participating organisations: 6 Number of children and young people reached directly: 565 Number of adults reached directly: 361 Number of people reached indirectly: 75,671

The 10th annual Global Money Week took place in Slovakia mainly through online activities. During March 21-27, a series of events were dedicated to the GMW2022 theme of “Build Your Future, Be Smart about Money”. Children and young people were involved with learning financial literacy skills to build financial resilience.

Slovakia became actively involved in Global Money Week through the work of National Bank of Slovakia and its five money projects. Many financial literacy trainers gave online financial education sessions for 63 high school students throughout the week. During these 3-hour online classes, they taught the difference between gross and net pay, what the risk is if you do not save for unexpected situations and a number of other interesting facts on the topic of work and money. They also tried to prepare students to make financial decisions that match their home budget. 30 high school students visited the permanent exhibition at the NBS: From the Slovak Koruna to the Euro. An InfoSWAP event was prepared for university students, where 75 students shared knowledge from the financial and non-financial world. On March 25, the NBS organised the national finals of the international Generation €uro competition, in which five teams from secondary schools competed. They presented on the topic of “When is inflation low, when is it too high and what does it actually mean?”

Global Money Week 2022 in Slovakia also included an intensive campaign for a series of short animated videos from 5peniažka. This animated miniseries of videos illustrates well-known fairy tales and presents various financial topics and life situations in the modern world of finance. The NBS also prepared a video series for seniors on various financial topics related to many financial situations based on real life cases.

During GMW2022, the National Bank published a number of articles on their 5penazi.sk website. These focused on various thematic areas of financial education for children, pupils, students and the adult population.

Feedback from participants was collected via online education, lectures, webinars, fairy tales and traffic to the 5penazi.sk website and data was used to improve the quality of financial education in various topics.

Akadémia vzdelania (non profit organization Academy of Education OVB). Throughout Global Money Week 2022, financial literacy awareness sessions were offered to more than 150 children and youth. An online finance game “Moja Família” (My Family) was organised for primary school children. The aim of the game is to teach students good skills and habits while thinking skilfully and economically.