Bucharest, 20 December 2022 – Starting with the month of August 2022, Institute of Financial Studies (ISF) received accreditation for the program “Training of teaching staff from primary education in the financial domain (StartFIN)”, dedicated to pre-university teaching staff from primary education and launched the first series of it.
StartFIN, for the training of teaching staff from primary education in the financial domain, is a free program accredited by the Ministry of Education, which offers the development of specific financial education competencies suitable for students from grades 0-4.
The program is accredited for 4 years in an online system and takes place over 40 hours, with 20 hours organized in a synchronous online system and 20 hours organized in an asynchronous system, thus offering the advantage of remote participation for teachers from all over the country.
For the year 2022, ISF and ASF offer the opportunity for training within StartFIN, free of charge, for 500 teachers. Places are filled in the order of registration (requests are sent to the address startfin@isf.ro), the number of participants being limited to 25 persons/series. In case of exceeding this limit, individuals will be enrolled in the next available series.
Thus, within the program, 9 groups of participants were organized, totaling a number of 225 registered teaching staff.
In the week of 12-16 December, ISF conducted 10 online StartFIN sessions attended by over 180 teachers.
The SmartFIN@ISF program, of vocational training which aims to improve the skills and knowledge of students who will become consumers of financial services (at the end of their studies) but also potential employees in the financial markets (insurance, banks, private pensions, investments), took place last week in three major university centers with which ISF has academic partnerships and enjoyed the presence of over 100 students:
12 December – “Babeș-Bolyai” University from Cluj-Napoca – Faculty of Business
13 December – Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest through the Faculty of Finance, Insurance, Banking, and Stock Exchanges
13 December – “Titu Maiorescu” University from Bucharest
The presentations included topics regarding career (recruitment, personal development), starting from the requirements of the market/companies and continuing with the difficulties faced by future employees, as well as case studies, technical and practical aspects from the domain of insurance, capital market, private pensions and were delivered by experts in the field, from within the Financial Supervisory Authority, ISF, and members of professional associations in the financial domain, partners of ISF.
In the week of 12-16 December, the program “Training of teaching staff from pre-university education in the non-banking financial domain (FinTTT)” also continued, an accredited continuous professional training program addressed to pre-university teaching staff.
The purpose of FinTTT is to improve the level of financial education among middle school teachers.
ISF in partnership with ASF, developed a 60-hour training program, respecting the principles and quality standards related to the educational process. By completing this program, accredited for a period of 4 years, graduates will receive 15 transferable professional credits.
More information about the programs and courses of ISF can be found here.
About Institute of Financial Studies
Institute of Financial Studies, founded by the Financial Supervisory Authority, is a center of excellence in the domain of studying profile markets and conducting financial education programs for ensuring the competencies, skills, and knowledge of the staff of financial institutions and the staff of ASF and for increasing 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, transitioning from the accumulation of knowledge to the accumulation and evaluation of competencies, providing professional training programs for the non-banking financial domain adapted to new organizational processes, determined by legislative requirements, market dynamics, and the European framework, contributing to the maturation of the non-banking financial market in Romania, to creating its capacity to face competition induced by globalization or the effects of economic crises.