Thank you to Magda, Angela, Marilisa, and Rita from the Bank of Italy for their time and instruction. After meeting Magda, I was taken to see Marilisa, from whom I have learned about the National Strategy proposed by the Committee for Financial Literacy and accepted into law recently. She outlined the four steps to this plan, and already the group are well on their way to achieving their goals, including mapping the current provisions and the initial construction of a web platform about to be launched.
Then Rita took me through the Bank activities for Global Money Week. There were kits produced for the students involved, and local offices of the Bank of Italy then chose either an activity about wants and needs, or an activity about an imaginary friend, both adapted for lesson resources suggested on the GMW website.
Finally, Angela showed me the Italian adaptation of the OECD financial education framework, and the existing Bank and Insurance materials that have reached hundreds of thousands of students in Italy already, and other new learning materials in production that the Bank will be able to provide to interested schools. She also showed me past evaluation documentation and a planned data collection tool that will feed information about formal programs operating around the country to a central referral point for schools and consumers.
The morning finished with a delightful lunch across the road from the main Bank of Italy building in Rome - a stunner!
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