About 40 experts from various areas are participating from Wednesday, 13 November, until Friday 15 in the 7th Financial Education Congress, organized by the Edufinet Project, a financial education program promoted by Fundación Unicaja and Unicaja. Today's event is being held only online due to the red alert for heavy rains decreed in Malaga, the city that hosts this event.
The event, which is sponsored by Funcas Educa, has established itself throughout its seven editions as a leading forum at national level around the analysis and study of the relevance of financial education and its important contribution to citizens and society, as well as an unmissable event for experts in the field, present each year both in a carefully planned program, as well as in a select panel of speakers.
The central theme of this edition, under the title 'Financial Education and Cybersecurity: keys for the new digital era', revolves on this occasion around the fundamental role played by financial education and cybersecurity in our society when facing the new opportunities and challenges posed by this new digital scenario.
The aim pursued this year is to highlight the importance of training citizens in economics and finance, as well as in security and prevention in the online environment, especially in the current context of increasing digitalization and the constant innovation and technological transformation in society, and also in the economy and finance, thus favoring their financial and digital inclusion. In this way, by improving their financial and digital skills and competencies, they will be able to benefit from the advantages offered by this new scenario, allowing them, at the same time, to detect and prevent the risks it also implies.
Today's session can be followed via streaming, on www.edufinetcongress.es, with free registration. Depending on the evolution of the weather conditions, the sessions of tomorrow Thursday and Friday could be held face-to-face, as initially planned, at the Centro Cultural Fundación Unicaja de Málaga (Palacio del Obispo, 6), in addition to the online format, on the congress website.
The first of these three days was inaugurated online by the head of the Edufinet Project, José M. Domínguez; the senior researcher of Funcas, Elisa Chuliá; the chairman of Unicaja, José Sevilla, and the general manager of Fundación Unicaja, Sergio Corral.
Nearly 40 speakers from different disciplines
This year, the Edufinet Congress will host a total of 14 sessions and five colloquiums on a wide range of topics, which will once again serve as a meeting point and knowledge exchange for nearly 40 speakers, including renowned representatives of both public and private institutions, from the academic, financial, technological and security, economic, business and social fields.
Thus, once again this year, it will be an interesting forum for debate and reflection, which will make it possible to identify and share trends and points of interest in order to enhance the effectiveness of financial education programs and, therefore, to promote the financial and digital culture of society in general, as well as of certain groups in particular.
The participants of this edition includes, in the financial field, representatives of the European Central Bank (ECB), the Bank of Spain, the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), CECA, or FinResp. In the technological and cybersecurity field, representatives of INCIBE, Google, the National Police, TeachLab or Prosegur Cash, among other entities, will also take part.
Speakers from Spanish and foreign universities will also be present, such as those of Malaga (UMA), Cordoba (UCO), Huelva (UHU), the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), the UNED and the National University of Mar de Plata in Argentina. There will also be speakers from entities such as Analistas Económicos de Andalucía, IEAF (Spanish Institute of Financial Analysts) or the Association of Economists of Malaga, and institutions such as CEM (Confederation of Businessowners of Malaga), Malaga Town Hall, the Academy of Social Sciences and Environment of Andalusia, SECOT or Puntos Vuela.
Complete program with a variety of topics
During these sessions and round tables, participants from various professional fields will address the challenges facing financial education, without losing sight of the current framework of the digital transformation of society and its impact on the social, economic and financial levels. Likewise, participants are invited to reflect on the opportunities and risks posed to citizens by this new digital environment, with special attention to cybersecurity and the prevention of fraud and cyber threats.
Among other topics that will be discussed in relation to financial education and cybersecurity are the attention to senior citizens, fraud, regulation, the keys to safe and responsible consumption, as well as the importance of cybersecurity for different groups in society. The relationship between financial education and new technological realities such as artificial intelligence (AI), its ethics and regulation; the new digital currencies promoted by Central Banks (CBDC), or the impact of online games on the financial education of young people, or how to address a scenario of permanent evolution in innovation, will also be analyzed.
On the other hand, there will be a review of general issues on financial education such as its current situation and evolution during this century; its contribution at early ages, in entrepreneurship or for certain groups such as the elderly and athletes; the effects of financial behaviors and cognitive biases; persuasion in digital finance, as well as financial inclusion in means of payment. Also, from the point of view of the economic context, aspects such as trends in the distribution of wealth, or the present and future of the Spanish economy will be discussed.
The congress program is available on https://edufinetcongress.es/programa/
