Abstract:

What's Sustainable Financial Literacy? "Sustainability Literacy" is the knowledge, skills and mindsets that allow individuals to become deeply committed to building a sustainable future and assisting in making informed and effective decisions to this end. And Sustainable Finance aims at integrating environmental, social or governance (ESG) criteria into financial services.

Financial Sustainable Literacy (SFinLit), is a 2 years ERASMUS+ KA201 Innovation Project focused in the Innovative practices in digital era. Is very much centered in the reinforcement of Digital, Financial Literacy and Learn to learn Competences in School Education. Financial Literacy is a core life skill for participating in modern society, and Coronavirus crisis, has put under the spotlight in a very dramatic way how important Digital Competences are. In this crisis context and in a very strong way too, the digital gap is showing to be a critical point, that has to be urgently addressed. UNED will share with the consortium his experience in Digital Education Technologies, Blended Learning, and on-line most appropriated methodologies so the Project can provide to the target group (Young Students) with the knowledge and skills they needed to improve their Financial Literacy, Digital and Learn to Learn competences. A Consortia composed by 7 partners (apart from the UNED), from Tertiary Level (Laurea University of Applied Sciences) School Public Institutions (Agora Roermond School) Non Profit Associations in the field of Financial training for professionals and Young students(IEF), Administrative Education Institutions (Regional Directorate for Primary and Secondary School of Thessaly) Financial and Banking Institutions (EFFEBI and EBTN) and a Tertiary Level Institution very much focused on innovative and Technology Enhanced Learning (Cork Institute of Technology), that covers a wide range of perspectives, skills and knowledge, will address the objectives of understanding what Socially Responsible Finance is, show Socially Responsible Actions development and good practices, develop contents adapted to the needs of the target group, develop a training model addressing the main topic of Financial Literacy and develop training free on-line contents, to the target groups primarily by students but also for general users, industry, employees and stakeholders, to give effective answers to the emerging challenges.

The Project objectives will be expressed in 2 Intellectual Outputs (IO's), which will be carried out in a collaborative way, under a IO leader.

Those are:
1.Lead by IEF.Training material. It includes searching, collecting and selecting all the best contents from different sectors, finances, but also from the educational framework across all their levels, related to this subject. This IO2 Integrates three activities. A1; Defining Learning Objectives A2; Developing the training curriculum and A3; Develop the pedagogical contents of the training materials. Previously consortium will make a Compendium of the Good Practices and collect existing material on sustainable financial literacy.
2.Lead by CIT. Developing of tools and guidelines for training on Sustainable Financial Literacy for secondary school level programme.
The project is completed with learning sessions about learning environment and contents for trainers/tutors and technical staff face to face in Cork by CIT trainers.

Keywords:

Key competencies, ICT, youth basic skills, financial sustainability.