From the Savings Museum record of financial education initiatives in schools

In the 2024-2025 school year, the Intesa Sanpaolo Savings Museum reached over 117,000 students and teachers in primary and secondary schools throughout Italy, with over 1,500 educational interventions and more than 2,100 hours of training, through webinars and in-presence and online events.

The leitmotif of the initiatives is active and inclusive education, capable of transforming often abstract economic and financial concepts into concrete and engaging experiences, fostering effective and lasting learning. One of the objectives is to prepare the new generations to live confidently and responsibly in an ever-changing world, helping them to develop transversal skills that are fundamental for facing the economic and social challenges of the future.

Giovanna Paladino, director and curator of the Savings Museum, emphasised: 'Through our materials, museum tours, educational activities, workshops and informative events, we train children and young people to assess risks and opportunities, to develop critical thinking and to think in terms of time horizons. We help them understand the value of perseverance in pursuing goals, effective management of time and information so that they can translate wishes into concrete actions. Our wish is to further extend and strengthen our network of cooperation with schools, public bodies, universities, companies and associations, to make our wealth of training materials and methodologies available so as to increase our social impact and contribute to lasting financial wellbeing, of each individual and of the community'.

Among the new proposals was the new 'EduFin&Fun' programme, dedicated to economic citizenship education for primary and secondary schools. Not forgetting the development of numerous programmes dedicated to high schools, which involved 250 classes and around 5,000 students from 12 Italian regions, an increase of 53% over the previous year.