CRYPTOPOLIS Erasmus+ Project finalized successfully

03/06/2024 - 16:07

CRYPTOPOLIS is a project supported by EU which focuses on the financial management knowledge of teachers and the emerging field of risk management and risk analysis of cryptocurrencies.

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The latest School Education Gateway survey (2021) exposed that the school curriculum should change and include new topics. One of the important topic, that is less frequently taught is financial literacy, which nowadays also have to include crypto topics.

Cryptocurrency has shown to be a vital and rapidly growing component in today’s digital economy therefore there is a need to include not just financial but also crypto literacy into the schools. Beside multiple investors and traders the market is attracting an increasing number of young individuals, viewing it as an easy way to make money. A large pool of teenagers and young adults want to hop on this train, but a lack of cryptocurrency literacy, as well as financial literacy in general amongst youth, together with their inexperience with investing makes them even more vulnerable to an already high-risk investment.

Therefore, the aim of the project was to increase the capacity and readiness of secondary schools to manage an effective shift towards digital education in the field of crypto and financial literacy. The project developed the purposeful use of digital technologies in financial and crypto education for teaching, learning, assessment, and engagement.

Breda University of Applied Sciences was one of the partners in a consortium, consisting of secondary schools and higher educational institutions in four countries, namely: Austria, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands. We are delighted to report that all planned activities have been successfully developed and implemented. But this is not all – within the project, we managed to go above and beyond! Additional content modules have been created, and the simulation game now boasts even more functionalities than initially planned (for more information, please see this link.

We wholeheartedly encourage you to continue utilizing the results of our project. They are readily accessible on our website. Let's keep the momentum going and make the most of what we've achieved together!