This year Banka Slovenije is once again running the Masters of the Digital Future debate project in partnership with the Office of the President of Slovenia. The winning teams at the primary school selection tournament were debate team Koruza from Domžale Primary School in the beginner's category, and Dirty All Stars from Tončka Čeč Primary School in Trbovlje in the experienced category.
The Masters of the Digital Future project is held under the patronage of the President of Slovenia dr. Nataša Pirc Musar and will this year conclude with a grand international final.
As part of our efforts to improve the financial literacy of children and young people, we have been pursuing a number of activities aiming to make further progress in educating young people about financial issues, while emphasising the importance of including financial knowledge in the education process. Each year we include extra projects in our programmes, where we also take the opportunity to work with other institutions.
This school year we are once again running the Masters of the Digital Future debate project, which is aimed at students in secondary school or the last three years of primary school. This year’s project will conclude in May with a grand international final debate for secondary school students, with a number of other central banks also joining the project.
Maks Pečar Primary School in Črnuče hosted the first of this year’s selection tournaments, with 41 teams from 19 primary schools competing. The students were divided into beginner's and experienced debaters' category, and competed in debates about the digital euro. The winning team in the beginner's category was Koruza from Domžale Primary School, who beat Telebajski from Tone Čufar Primary School in Maribor in the final debate. In the experienced debaters' category, the winners were Dirty All Stars from Tončka Čeč Primary School in Trbovlje, who saw off The Empire from the Ihan branch of Domžale Primary School in the final.
Next week will see the secondary schoolers go head-to-head in similar fashion in Maribor.
The project has been furtherly augmented this year, and will conclude with a grand international final debate, where the winning debate team of the experienced debaters' category will go up against their peers from Austria, Croatia, Estonia, Montenegro and Slovakia. President Pirc Musar will also play an active part in the tournament.
The victors of the national tournaments will win a prize trip to Zagreb to tour the Croatian central bank and see the main attractions of the city, while a reception for them in the presidential palace is also planned.
