Cross curricular collaboration for improving students financial literacy skills using games

Due to the complexity of the financial markets, ageing European population and development of the digital world that makes money practically virtual, young people are in a vulnerable situation, an...

The project aimed to improve special needs and other students at risk of social exclusion financial literacy knowledge and skills for strengthening their social inclusion by enhancing cross-curricular and interdisciplinary collaboration in school education and promoting experiential, game-based and social simulation teaching methods and tools. The specific project objectives: -Raise awareness on the benefits of financial literacy knowledge and skills and and equip over 12000 students from special learning and mixed schools with useful knowledge, skills, involvement and self-determination by developing workshop and photo exhibition guidelines for financial and entrepreneurial skills based on real-case simulation techniques. -Raise awareness, increase competence and equip about 10000 teachers and educators from special education and mixed schools by providing them creative, effective, game-based methodology in financial literacy skills consisting in a training package - curriculum and training materials, best practice collection and and stories of successful personal financial management for special needs students.

FINGO provided special needs teachers and students a new interdisciplinary training curriculum and learning materials, PR1 and PR2, in ”Financial Literacy Skills using games in Special Education” piloted with 23 visitor teachers, excluding the host, internationally and 97 teachers locally, PR3 - 'Best practices and stories collection of successful personal financial management' as a digital book. PR4- ”I am a financially successful person!”-guidelines for financial and entrepreneurial skills workshops and exhibition based on real-case simulation techniques piloted with 333 students from the 6 countries An awareness dissemination campaign plan, organized in the 6 countries in special and mixed schools, addressing to students and teachers in social media, schools, families highlighting the benefits of financial literacy skills for a better social inclusion. A project website, and Facebook account, 6 multiplier events with 331 live students, teachers and stakeholders, as local participants and 63 participants in virtual events; 500 stakeholders from the partner countries have been informed about project results, about 72130 people, including teachers and students were finally informed about the project and its outputs from all over Europe through all dissemination means involved. Four newsletters have been created and used in dissemination after major events, TPMs/LTT/ME, 2 per project year. Two supplementary materials has been created and implemented, an attractive interactive online version of the PR3- 'Best practices and stories collection for special education students' and a promotional material in an interactive online version for the project and especially its products, in all languages. FINGO results are freely accessible and can be used in a variety of educational and supportive contexts, also the results are flexible and can be used entirely or just selected sections or exercises depending on the needs. They can be accessed here: https://fingo-financial-literacy.blogspot.com/p/results.html