Global Money Week 2025: School Programmes

March 21, 2025

It’s the final day of our content for Global Money Week 2025! Throughout the week, we’ve brought you a series of news stories on all things money and staying safe online.

The goal of Global Money Week is to empower young people to engage with activities that help build their financial literacy. At last week’s launch event in Croke Park, students and teachers from all over Ireland presented their financial literacy projects as part of Our Money, Our Future, a CCPC sponsorship programme for post-primary schools and Youthreach centres to help young people build financial literacy skills.

Financial Education and the CCPC

The CCPC has a statutory role in financial education. Our financial education programmes in secondary schools include:

• Money Matters, a programme on personal finance for Junior Cycle teachers and students.
• Money Counts, which provides resources for the Leaving Cert Applied programme.
• Me and My Money; a unit of learning on Budgeting and Household Management to be used by Business Studies and Home Economics teachers in the classroom.
• Ábhair Airgid is a bespoke Irish-language resource for Business Studies and Home Economics teachers and students developed by the CCPC.

Global Money Week Partner Initiatives 2025

Our Global Money Week partners organised a series of events and initiatives for schools and young people this week. Below you may find some useful resources to bring back to the classroom:

Department of Finance

The Department of Finance were central to the launch of Global Money Week 2025, with Minister Robert Troy addressing the audience at the launch of Global Money Week in Croke Park.

Central Bank of Ireland

The Central Bank of Ireland participated in a panel on Peer-to-Peer Learning with students from St. Anne’s Secondary School, Tipperary at the Global Money Week launch event in Croke Park.

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (FSPO)

The FSPO focused on the role of the Ombudsman, fraud cases and money mules as well as building financial education awareness.

Revenue

Revenue visited schools across Ireland to discuss taxes, payslips and Revenue accounts as well as promoting their Introduction to Tax module for TY students.

Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI)

On 25 March 2025, secondary schools in Ireland will compete in the live online final of the European Money Quiz, sponsored by the BPFI. FraudSMART, a fraud awareness initiative developed by the BPFI, ran a series of social media posts to highlight common scams and encourage people to ‘think before you click’.

Junior Achievement Ireland (JAI)

JA Finance Park is a secondary school financial literacy programme, supported by the CCPC, that aims to build a financial literacy foundation for students. During Global Money Week, JAI delivered JA Finance Park and other programmes in secondary schools.

Brokers Ireland

Brokers Ireland’s ‘Future Financial Experts’ financial literacy programme is aimed at TY students. During Global Money Week, Brokers Ireland promoted their Savvy Saver digital guide which provides top savings tips and guidance on staying safe financially.

Institute of Banking (IOB)

The IOB held daily webinars concentrating on the themes of Global Money Week 2025.

Irish Funds

The Irish Funds Financial Literacy Programme was delivered to TY students in Coláiste Chiaráin, Athlone during Global Money Week 2025.

MABS

The Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) has delivered Global Money Week money management workshops in secondary school since 2019 and were present in schools throughout Ireland again this year.

LIA

The LIA hosted a webinar made available to both their members and non-members on the topic of investing in cryptocurrency and the risks associated with doing so. The link will be made available across their social media.

That’s a wrap for Ireland’s Global Money Week 2025! Check out our Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn pages for photos and videos of the week. If you have any queries, or you’d like to take part in Global Money Week 2026, please email financialeducation@ccpc.ie. We’d love to hear from you!

Global Money Week is organised by the OECD International Network on Financial Education (INFE). The CCPC is Ireland’s national Global Money Week coordinator.

 

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