Economic and financial education must be given more attention in school curricula. We have therefore joined forces with a group of partners across society to found Austria’s central platform for anchoring economic education in schools: the Foundation for Economic Literacy. The foundation describes its programme comprehensively: “We raise awareness for broad-based, responsible economic education and encourage school administrators and teachers to help us implement it. We provide curricula, lessons and teaching materials that teach economic, financial and future skills in the simplest, most playful, inspiring and application-oriented way possible. We support teachers in teaching economic, financial and future skills in a concise and exciting way. We finance measures that enable schools to establish a thematic and didactic focus on economics. We enhance pupils’ knowledge and competencies by teaching them future skills – especially discourse skills; long-term, critical, and solution-oriented thinking; as well as cooperation skills, participation, mutual responsibility, self-reflection, creativity, learning techniques, and time and knowledge management.”
