26.03.2024
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Global Money Week and the 8th edition of the Financial Education and Entrepreneurship Congress with the participation of Wojciech Rybak
Bank Millennium and Bank Millennium Foundation are celebrating this year's "Global Money Week". This year, we also attended the 8th edition of the Financial Education and Entrepreneurship Congress – an initiative organised by the Warsaw Banking Institute and the GPW Foundation.
The theme of this year's GMW Global Money Week was: Protect your money, secure your future. A slogan referring to managing money in a responsible, conscious and safe way.
On 21 March, representatives from the financial sector met at the Financial Education and Entrepreneurship Congress. Bank Millennium and Bank Millennium Foundation were represented by Wojciech Rybak, who participated in the debate "Trust, security, stability – the role of banks as responsible enterprises and reliable financial education". The debate was also attended by: Bożena Graczyk – Vice-President of the Management Board of ING Bank Śląski and Leszek Skiba – President of the Management Board of Bank Pekao S.A.
During the discussion, many important topics in the area of banking were raised, including the stability of the Polish market, threats to cybersecurity and cyberwar, as well as the need for economic education of the society.
As Wojciech Rybak emphasised in the debate, it is extremely important for the stability of the Polish market to increase economic awareness, which is why education is so important. In the education of the youngest, it is worth focusing on practice and adequacy – teaching children to manage their own budget, make responsible and conscious financial decisions.
At Bank Millennium we focus on the education of the youngest – since 2016 we have been implementing our own Financial ABCs programme run by our Bank Millennium Foundation. As part of the programme, we conduct workshops among the youngest children - in kindergartens. Their goal is to train the little ones in the basics of finance. We believe that thanks to such activities, children will be able to safely navigate the world of finance in the future.
Global Money Week (GMW) is an annual international financial education campaign to ensure that children and young people gain financial literacy from an early age and gradually develop knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours necessary to make rational financial decisions and ultimately achieve financial well-being and financial resilience.