Personal and Business Financial Skills is a financial education project developed in 2024 by Junior Achievement Romania with the support of Volvo Financial Services and aimed at high school students. The project seeks to facilitate the understanding of the basics of accessing and managing financial services responsibly, through the use of practical exercises and hands-on examples.

PROJECT OBJECTIVE

To assist students in developing the skills to analyze financial opportunities and risks, while encouraging them to make informed decisions about accessing and managing financial services responsibly.

It also aims to enable students to gain economic literacy, to understand the importance of money in society and to explore the concept of saving, as well as ways to develop a contingency plan for financial emergencies.

EDUCATIONAL CONTENT

• The format proposed by the Personal and Business Financial Skills project provides free access to a financial education and resource management kit developed in an interactive digital format through the JA Learn platform.
• Volunteers from Volvo Financial Services bring a real-world perspective on career opportunities and provide students with information on how to build a savings plan for financial emergencies and how to develop the necessary entrepreneurial skills.

The collaboration between VFS and JA is fully aligned with the Volvo Group's overall sustainability concerns, which include commitments to each of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The teaching of financial literacy will have a positive impact on several sustainable development goals, contributing, among others, to the eradication of poverty, the promotion of quality education, the empowerment of women and young girls, etc.

About Volvo Financial Services
Volvo Financial Services is the finance arm of the Volvo Group and provides financial solutions that meet customers' current and future needs. Through its transportation and infrastructure solutions, the Volvo Group contributes to prosperity by delivering trucks, buses, construction equipment, energy solutions for marine and industrial applications, financing and services that increase customers' uptime and productivity.
Dedicated to innovation, Volvo Financial Services supports society in adopting sustainable transportation and equipment solutions and serves Volvo Group customers and dealers in some 50 markets.
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