Cross Curricular Collaboration for Improving Students Financial Literacy Skills Using Games
On 19th and 20th of January 2023, the third meeting of the Erasmus+ FINGO project took place, hosted by the partner Dom Spain, from Reus, Spain.
The management meeting involved the presentation of the general situation of the project, clarifications for the product PR3, "Collection of stories of successful personal financial management for students with special needs", planning the realization of the product PR4 "I am a financially successful person - guidelines, workshops and exhibition ", setting deadlines for products, setting the Turin meeting period in July, the last TPM of the project, checks on evaluation documents, dissemination and management. Thanks to the hosts and partners for their efficiency and preparation of the meeting.
Between 6-8.09.2022, the C1 learning-teaching-training activity took place in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Within the #Erasmus+ project "Inter-curricular collaboration to improve students' financial skills using games" – FINGO, which is implemented together with partners from Lithuania, Spain, Italy, Romania, Cyprus and Turkey on 4-5.07.2022, the first TPM1 transnational meeting was held in #Konya, Turkey. There were presented and discussed the situation of the project products PR1, PR2 "#Financialliteracy skills using games" regarding the curriculum adapted for financial education and its contents, necessary changes, translation and establishment of the way of working for PR3 on the realization of the material "Best practices and stories collection of successful personal financial management for special needs students". The collection of success stories will be extremely useful by incorporating a variety of examples of successful cases in the field, with a strong motivational, supportive impact for readers, including special needs students. The course will be piloted locally and internationally in September. The final resulting materials translated into the national language of each partner, but also in English will be available as an open resource for anyone interested.
Between February 3-4, 2022, at the "Vasile Pavelcu" Special Technological High School in Iasi, the first planned meeting of the project took place, aimed at establishing the essential milestones for the realization of the first two products of the project, "Development of financial skills using games in special schools" – curriculum development that is also accessible to students with disabilities (including hearing disabled) and development of course materials including a piloting phase.
Also, in accordance with the project data and the stages established in the online organizational meeting that took place on 05.01.2022, the progress of the project was analysed and the deadlines for various activities were recalculated, as well as the dates of the next project meetings.
FINGO project starting
From 01.11.2021, for a period of 2 years, the project "Cross-curricular collaboration for improving students’ financial literacy skills using games" – FINGO within the Erasmus+ Program, Strategic Partnerships for School Education, was launched and will be implemented together with partners from Lithuania, Spain, Italy, Romania, Cyprus and Turkey.
The project aims to improve the financial knowledge and skills necessary to strengthen the social inclusion of pupils with special needs (focusing on hearing disabled) and those in the risk category of social exclusion by improving inter-curricular and interdisciplinary collaboration in the educational process and by promoting experimental teaching methods and tools, based on play and social simulation.