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Cooperation with schools for teaching financial skills to young people

We hold interactive financial lessons for schools, where we look at how to manage your personal finances and save and invest your money. More than 6,000 pupils and students across Finland have already participated in these lessons. 

Comprehensive school 

Comprehensive school pupils can participate in three different workshops: “Oman talouden eväät” financial skills workshop for 1st–4th graders, “Oman talouden eväät” financial skills workshop for 5th–9th graders and Becoming a Millionaire workshop for 7th–9th graders.  Using a quiz format, the workshops deal with the prices of products and services with 1st–4th graders and the cost of living with 5th–9th graders. The aim is to teach children how to spend money in a manner that suits their lifestyle and to give them an understanding of the daily expenses of their family. The Becoming a Millionaire workshop is designed for 7th–9th graders, who get to learn the basics of saving and investment.

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Sign your class up for the Becoming a Millionaire virtual workshops for 7th–9th graders.Opens new window

A teacher’s feedback on a workshop: “The workshop was absolutely fantastic. The hosts involved the pupils throughout the lesson and the content was well-adjusted to the pupils’ skill level. As the teacher, I enjoyed it when someone else took the reins and all I had to do was just listen.”  

Upper secondary school and vocational school

“Oman talouden eväät” financial skills workshop for upper secondary and vocational students consists of two lessons: Your relationship with money and budgeting, and saving and buying your own home. 

The workshop deals with the participants’ relationship with money and spending, managing their finances through budgeting, the benefits of saving, and various forms of housing. The young participants receive tips and tools for managing their finances sustainably and working towards their dreams. The aim is to get the participants to become aware of their spending habits and to plan their current and future finances. 

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Moneymaster

In November 2018, Nordea launched the Moneymaster mobile game together with Economy and Youth TAT and the Finnish Foundation for Share Promotion. The game can be used by teachers as a tool for teaching financial skills during lessons or in various events.

Moneymaster teaches young people to manage their finances and save and invest their money, and it’s also useful in teaching languages (Swedish, English, Finnish).  It’s targeted at 13–17-year-olds and free for everyone to play. Moneymaster works on all devices, enabling anyone to join the game, which has so far been played nearly 100,000 times.   

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Moneymaster competition

Every year we hold a Moneymaster team competition for 8th graders. The next Moneymaster competition will be held on 5 May 2022 at Nordea Campus in Helsinki.

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Partners:  Economy and Youth TAT and the Finnish Foundation for Share Promotion

Moneymaster Junior

Moneymaster Junior, the little sibling of Moneymaster, was launched in October 2021. The game has been produced by Nordea in cooperation with Economy and Youth TAT and Ekokumppanit. 

Intended for primary school students, Moneymaster Junior is a mobile game featuring an imaginary cartoon world where children can safely learn financial skills. The players’ own choices with which they can influence their personal finances and environment, and well-being as a consequence, are a key part of the game. The free-to-play game is built on a story tailored to its age group and their circumstances, involving choices that impact sustainable development, the environment, well-being and the economy.

The game works on all devices free of charge, enabling anyone to join the game.

Feedback from pupils: 

• “It’s great to learn financial skills from a game. I wanted to play all levels through at once!”
• “The best thing about Moneymaster is work. You can develop everything a little bit in the game. The advice that we remember is: you should work.”

Partner: Economy and Youth TAT

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Partnership projects

Yrityskylä, in partnership with Economy and Youth TAT

Nordea employees play the role of banker or other expert. Through the simulations, the participants also learn to cooperate better and take more initiative.  

Nordea supports Yrityskylä in over 10 localities, including by holding job interview exercises before the Yrityskylä Day when the young participants choose jobs for themselves.

Feedback on Yrityskylä “I learned that even if a product is cheap, you shouldn’t buy it just because you can.”

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Business courses, in partnership with Economy and Youth TAT

Business courses are designed for general and vocational upper secondary schools. The participants at Takeoff, an ancillary event of Slush for young people, will be selected annually from among the students who have completed the courses. More than 87,000 students have already completed the course package.

Feedback on business courses: “I used to think that running a business is very simple, but when I participated in the course, I learned that customer service is more than just helping the customer.”

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Vamos financial skills project, in partnership with the Deaconess Foundation

This financial skills project aims at helping 16–29-year-olds manage their personal finances. Through the project, we encounter nearly 1,000 young people every year. The aim is to support young people in managing their daily spending, to lower the threshold to managing their banking and other financial matters as well as to prevent serious problems and debt cycles. 

• “I got the feeling that you can talk about money and you can get help if you need it.”
• “Things became a lot clearer and I feel more confident in managing my finances than I did before.”
• “I felt I became a lot more aware of my personal finances and I finally got the courage to take a realistic look at my financial situation. I also started budgeting my monthly expenses and I aim to stick to this habit.”

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Matkalla project, in partnership with Plan International

We encounter nearly 100 young people every year through Plan International’s Matkalla (On A Journey) project. The project assists young immigrants to Finland who are close to reaching the age when compulsory education ends. The aim of the project is to enhance the young immigrants’ chances to become full-fledged members of Finnish society. The project helps them to get to know the Finnish society and supports their day-to-day life skills.

We support young people with an immigrant background as they take their first steps in the Finnish labour market. In addition, we teach money management skills and give participants a chance to become familiar with various jobs in a bank.  

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Personal finances course for young people, in partnership with Opopassi

Opopassi is digital future planning tool that has gained wide popularity in recent years. Since 2018, it’s been available free of charge to all student counsellors and students at upper secondary schools. Opopassi aims to increase students’ self-awareness and their knowledge of entrepreneurship, the labour market and their personal finances and to help them to plan their further studies after school.

The content of Opopassi is determined by the curriculum of the OP2 student counselling course, which was adopted at upper secondary schools in autumn 2021. The themes laid out in the curriculum are managing personal finances, student financial aid and living. Nordea has created the personal finances course for young people on the Opopassi website.

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