Greece will take part for the first time in the OECD’s PISA financial literacy assessment in 2029, testing 15-year-olds’ economic knowledge against peers, the ministry said. The move aligns with a government push, backed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to boost financial literacy through FinStart, a new program for 40,000 students from elementary through high school.
National PISA coordinator Konstantinos Dimopoulos said the assessment evaluates four areas – money and transactions, financial planning, risk and reward, and the financial landscape – testing how students apply knowledge to real situations.
Under a ministry contract with the University of Ioannina, led by Anastasios Emvalotis, the skills4life question bank added financial literacy items to its roughly 400 topics. Recently, 550 teachers, including 50 economists, completed 48 hours of training.
