Press release
A.S.F. and ISF awards, in 2021, pre-university teachers for financial education projects
Bucharest, February 9, 2021: The Financial Supervisory Authority (A.S.F.) and the Institute of Financial Studies (ISF) are running the Start2Teach program, for the fourth consecutive year, in collaboration with all school inspectorates. This program is dedicated to pre-university teachers and its main objective is to provide support for teachers who teach notions of financial education. In total, under this program, by the end of 2020, 2,604 teachers who teach at the gymnasium or high school level from 33 school inspectorates, have learned about how to trade the shares of a company on the Stock Exchange, what is an insurance is its importance, or what are the pension pillars in Romania and what can each offer to the beneficiaries. For this year, continuous online learning, 240 teachers registered in January, a record number for this period, in Start2Teach, compared to 2019, when 205 teachers were enrolled throughout the year.
In order to support the teaching activity in a competitive environment, within this program, A.S.F. and ISF continues in 2021 the organization of the contest dedicated to teachers - "Be ProFIN". The registration period for this contest is 08.02.2021-15.05.2021. The top 10 lesson plans will be awarded 10 tablets, the winners to be announced on May 27, 2021.
The theme of the contest is the elaboration of a lesson plan having as subject the Consumer's relationship with non-banking financial institutions - Insurance products and services. The lesson plan will refer to the time (lesson) related to the specific competence 1.2. from the said program.
In order to enter this contest, participants will submit a proposal for a lesson plan (sheet), according to the standards in the field, for an hour of financial education in the curriculum of Economic-Financial Education for the eighth grade, approved by Ministerial Order Education no. 3393 / 28.02.2017.
The registration of the works in the contest will be made on the e-mail address edu@asfromania.ro.
More information can be found on www.asfromania.ro/edu/pentru-profesori/
About the A.S.F.
A.S.F. is the national authority, established in 2013 by GEO no. 93/2012 approved by Law no. 113/2013, for the regulation and supervision of the insurance markets, private pensions, as well as the capital market. A.S.F. contributes to strengthening the integrated framework for the functioning of the three sectors, amounting to more than 10 million participants. More information can be found on www.asfromania.ro.
About I.S.F.
The Institute of Financial Studies, subordinated to the Financial Supervision Authority, is a center of excellence in the field of market research and financial education programs to ensure the skills, abilities and knowledge of financial institutions and A.S.F. and to increase the level of financial education of consumers of non-banking financial services and products. In the long term, ISF aims to align its activity with European requirements, move from knowledge accumulation to skills accumulation and assessment, provide training programs for the non-banking financial field adapted to new organizational processes, determined by legislative requirements, market dynamics and of the European framework, contributing to the maturation of the non-banking financial market in Romania, to the creation of its capacity to face the competition induced by globalization or the effects of the economic crises.