THE Spanish Chamber of Commerce And MAPFRE Foundationwith the collaboration of the Chamber of Navarre and co-financing from the European Union, launched the FINEXIT route, an innovator financial escape room itinerant who visits the vocational training centers of more than 100 cities in the coming months promote financial education. In total, they should participate more than 5,000 young people.
Thanks to this gamified activitystudents learn to interpret a company balance sheet either insurance contracts and policies; perform currency exchange and internalize concepts such as IBAN code or the Return on investment (ROI). In addition, they work on other concepts that are not strictly financial, such as making a SWOT or a organizational chart of companionship.
The route stops today throughout the day at CIP Donapea of Pamplona. There, in the mobile unit itself, an event took place in which Endika Alonso, Councilor for Security and Citizen Coexistence of Pamplona; Diego Huarte, educational advisor of the Section of Planning and Evaluation of Vocational Training of the Government of Navarra; as well as Celia Pozaresponsible for Training and Employment of the Chamber of Commerce of Navarre; And José Luis Pérez Carretero, representative of Fundación MAPFRE in Pamplona.
The initiative, launched a year ago to provide students with the tools and knowledge needed in financial educationwill visit 15 autonomous communities.
The FINEXIT plot
He escape room presents students with a “spaceship”, who become specialists in different fields with the mission of saving Erica Midas, a character created for activity that represents being a visionary businesswoman and pioneer in a multitude of technological fields, but who has been isolated on the red planet for a year. The students must find out if the ship’s artificial intelligence has taken control of it.
The students, with time and oxygen against them, must access the ship, discover the objective of their mission and attempt to achieve it through different tests that have teamwork as a common factor drive with financial concepts.
Below the European average
According to data from the latest part of the PISA report, students Spaniards aged 15 are 12 points below the OECD average In financial skills and show a deterioration compared to four years ago. In fact, 4 out of 10 people admit that they do not have the necessary skills to interpret an invoice and a pay slip and only half know the concept of a retirement plan or the role of the Central Bank. Hence the importance of this campaign among FP students.
