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From 2025, the course “Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy” will become a mandatory subject for students in grades 8-9 in secondary education institutions. This is an important step towards the formation of a financially literate society in Ukraine, as it will contribute to the development of entrepreneurial skills and a conscious attitude towards financial resources among young people.

The creation of high-quality educational materials for the course is an extremely significant step in increasing the level of financial literacy of the population of Ukraine.

The relevance of this course is due to the need for high-quality knowledge for students who assess their orientation in the modern financial world and make informed decisions. To provide schools with educational materials, a group of authors and experts, including representatives of the Deposit Guarantee Fund of Individuals, members of its Expert Council on Financial Literacy, scientists and teachers from different regions of Ukraine, has created the educational course “Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy. Grade 8”.
In 2024, based on the approved preliminary model curriculum, pilot teaching of this course for eighth-graders began. For this team of authors, together with the Ukrainian Educational Publishing Center "Orion", pilot educational materials for the course "Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy" for 8th-graders were developed, which are currently being supplemented and adapted as part of the preparation of a complete educational and methodological set, including: a textbook, a workbook, a teacher's manual, electronic supplements and presentations for lessons.

The development of the course begins in 2021, when the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine approved the model curriculum "Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy. Grades 8–9" for secondary education institutions (authors Kuznetsova A. Ya., Dovgan A. L., Chasnikova O. V., Shnitser O. P., Trygub O. V., Girchenko T. D., Shabanova O.). V., Kharchenko A. M., Nagaychuk N.)
This program is the result of a partnership between the Deposit Guarantee Fund for Individuals, the University of Banking. and the NGO "Business Club "Partner", opened in 2019 with the signing of the relevant Memorandum of Cooperation.
The project was called "For educators - from educators". 16 scientists and teachers from 5 regions of Ukraine took part in its development.
It included pilot materials, a model program, a single educational and methodological kit, as well as an Educational Program for Advanced Training of Teachers in the course "Entrepreneurship and Financial Literacy. Grades 8-9" developed on their basis. The Guarantee Fund has delegated the right to co-authorship in this project to the Head of the Financial Education Department of the Fund, Olesya SHNITSER, as well as to members of the Expert Council on Financial Literacy of the Fund - Doctors of Economic Sciences, Professors Angela KUZNETSOVA and Vitaly PYSMENNY. Andriy DOVHAN and Olena CHASNIKOVA also became co-authors of all materials.
96 teachers have already been trained within the framework of this project, who teach the course to students in schools