FinanceMission: a game to raise young people's awareness of budget management Together with the 23 other cantonal banks, BCGE promotes responsible behaviour towards money among young people through an educational game
Together with the 23 other cantonal banks and in collaboration with the ‘Syndicat des enseignants romands (SER)’ (teachers union of French-speaking Switzerland) and the ‘Dachverband Lehrerinnen und Lehrer Schweiz (LCH)’ (umbrella organisation of teachers Switzerland), BCGE is committed to promoting financial literacy. The national FinanceMission project aims to raise awareness among young people of the need to behave responsibly when it comes to money and to promote their general financial culture in a lasting way. To this end, an innovative educational offer is now available for teaching thanks to the FinanceMission Heroes game and its corresponding training material.
The first FinanceMission offer includes the digital educational game "FinanceMission Heroes" as well as the teaching support material that goes with it. The game can be used by students as an app on their smartphone, tablet or computer. In doing so, they take on the role of a superhero and must free an imaginary city from devious and criminal robots. In the game, it is necessary to choose appropriate financing strategies for equipment objects, to allocate resources properly in terms of time and to budget correctly. In this way, students learn - in the true sense of the word - financial skills through play. For today's young people, the use of digital applications, apps and mobile devices is a matter of course. Serious games such as "FinanceMission Heroes" allow complex facts to be presented in a way that is very familiar to teenagers. In the game, students learn through their actions, suffer the consequences of their decisions in a stimulating environment and have the chance to correct their mistakes later on.
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