Disfinlit Multiplier Event

The “Disfinlit” Multiplier Event took place on November 27th, 2023. The event programme had some excellent speakers and was hosted by Dutch speaker and director Pieter van Schie. 21 participants attended the multiplier event in Leiden at the University Leiden Campus. The Disfinlit project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.

Disfinlit Partnership

The partnership is composed by seven organizations from the European Union. The coordinator is Fundació privada institut d’ estudis financers (IEF) from Spain and the partners are: Dutch Foundation of Innovation Welfare 2 Work (DFW2W) from the Netherlands, Effebi from Italy, CONACEE from Spain, ACEEU from Germany and Eurodimensions from Malta. The Disfinlit project aim is to respond to the needs of high-quality online tools and platforms by developing a tool that will help disabled youth to develop sustainable financial know-how, make smart and sustainable financial decisions, understand money management, deal with a constantly changing economy, navigate inevitable challenges and take charge of their own financial future.

Outline Disfinlit Programme

The Disfinlit ME Agenda was presented and hosted by director Pieter van Schie. He welcomed all participants and explained the objectives and agenda of the partnership:

• DFW2W presentation and DisFinLit project introduction: Sustainable Financial Literacy for youth disabled
• Disfinlit Consortium presentation: Institution, roles and responsibilities
• Presentation of Adapted curriculum and materials for disabled people from existing financial literacy courses paying special attention of sustainable finances  
• Presentation of Community of good practices to include all the existing training available and new materials
• Presentation of the Disfinlit platform

The content of the modules and the support materials were well appreciated: ,,I was positively surprised by this event and the results presented”. The multiplier event Disfinlit focus groups were also discussed. The aim of the Focus Groups was to:

• Discuss the state of the art of existing educational aims at different academic levels
• Determine which types of skills and competencies should be offered in the educationalmaterial
• Identify Learning Objectives (LOs)

This resulted in an ”Adapted curriculum and materials for disabled people from existing financial literacy courses paying special attention of sustainable finances” and a ”Community of good practices to include all the existing training available and new materials”