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Junior Achievement Romania has been working with Raiffeisen Bank S.A. in Romania since 2010. The concept
of financial education is characterized by various age-appropriate programs (”Ourselves“, ”My Family“, ”My
Town“, ”My Community“, ”Our Economy“, and ”ABCdar Bancar“) in elementary and high school students.
Appealing to various age groups and integrating employees into corporate volunteering programs makes it
possible to reach everyone from school children and students through to the wider public via a variety of channels.
Across various projects, considerable effort goes into improving individuals’ everyday lives and, through financial
education, to laying the foundations for the responsible handling of money in the future.
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RBI AG‘s cooperation with the social welfare
organization Diakonie at the Evangelisches
Realgymnasium Donaustadt has been continued for
the 2017/18 school year. The secondary school
(Gymnasium) which is operated at the lower level
as a Viennese middle school, offers its students in the
so-called free work phase financial education
workshops. About 30 RBI employees got in touch for
this corporate volunteering program.
Together with the students of the three fourth grades
classes, they worked on financial literacy issues – in
line with the company‘s executive license – with the
priorities ”Money and its function in the economy“, ”The monetary economy“, ”Overview of payment methods“,
and ”Debts and assessment value“. To make the class as attractive as possible, teacher tandems were set up. In
total, more than 65 students took part in the workshops.
Raiffeisen Bank Kosovo J.S.C. supported the first educational
robotics competition for elementary, secondary,
and high schools in Kosovo called the “Kosova
Makers League”, which was organized and led by the
BONEVET foundation.
The competition seeks to involve a wide range of
school-age children in the subjects of robotics and
automation. The children and young people were encouraged
to solve tricky tasks under time pressure using
a robot, working both on their own and as part of a
team. This allowed them to experience and learn about
all of the steps in a real product development process.
“Better education for a better Croatia” is the motto of
Croatia’s biggest educational conference, which is
held once a year to great public interest.
Raiffeisenbank Austria d.d. in Croatia, which shares
the opinion that education is the key to a better future,
supported the conference in 2018 for the second
successive year. The CEO of Raiffeisenbank Austria
d.d., Michael Müller, contributed to a podium discussion
entitled “Can we finance school life in Croatia?”.
The conference aims to promote change and increase awareness of the importance of education for Croatia’s
future. For example, this includes creating a space for all education stakeholders to express their opinions,
stimulating public discussion, and promoting education in STEM professions (science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics) that are currently seeing shortfalls. These measures are intended to make education into one of
the most important topics in Croatian society.