Educating future generations

The international UniCredit Foundation and Europe's largest educational organization, Junior Achievement Europe, created the „Re-Power Your Future” programme to equip future generations with the financial knowledge and entrepreneurial skills necessary for the challenges of the century. The three-year, comprehensive education program implemented in 10 countries, including Hungary, focuses on preventing early school leaving, acquiring the skills necessary for a successful career choice, and encouraging higher education studies. Junior Achievement Hungary, which implements the programs at the domestic level, closely cooperates with teachers, social and educational specialists, professional and sectoral organizations and UniCredit Bank employees are also involved in the implementation as volunteer professional mentors.

MoneyWeek

In addition to our own education programme, our volunteers have been involved in Hungary's largest financial education programme, MoneyWeek (Pénz7), since its launch in 2015. During the thematic week, our colleagues support the work of primary and secondary school teachers with real-life examples.

Fintelligence Financial Training Centre

At the end of 2023, we signed a new five-year cooperation agreement with the Budapest University of Economics and Business, where we established the Fintelligence Financial Training Centre at the Faculty of Finance and Accounting in spring 2019. The course, which has been running ever since, is a joint project between our bank and the university. The series of lectures provides students with practical knowledge: insights into the bank's operations and the work of its various departments, with the help of our senior managers. As part of our cooperation, we have participated as professional sponsors in a number of forums organised by the university, including the Hungarian Science Day, state examination committees, lectures at the university's colleges and the Alumni programme.

Podcast: About finance without a tie

In our podcast entitled About finance without a tie , we discuss banking topics that go beyond financial activities in an easy-to-understand format. In the individual episodes, among other subjects, we cover sustainability topics: we talk about mentoring, financial education, businesses that create a positive impact on society, social impact banking, sustainability activities within the bank, CSR – all from an ESG perspective.

Vlogopoly

In the summer of 2019, our financial education curriculum for young people, „Gazdálkodj vlogosan!” (Vlogopoly), developed by our volunteer colleagues in collaboration with Bridge Bizniscool, made its debut. The aim of the course is to give children (9–13 years old) an insight into the life of an enterprise through the example of a vlogger as entrepreneur. The curriculum uses a novel approach and situational exercises to explain to children what savings and credit are, and what to look out for when startingbusiness. The curriculum has been developed into a 6-week mid-year course from autumn 2019.