Savings Banks spreading Financial Knowledge

Financial History Workshop

Friday, 27 September 2019
9.00 - 9.30	Opening & Welcome Address Chris De Noose, WSBI-ESBG Managing Director Wilhelm Kraetschmer, Austrian savings banks association - The 200 year history of the savings banks in Austria
9.30 - 9.50	Thomas Ruoss - The International Savings Banks Institute as a hub for the disseminiation of Economic Knowledge in the 20th Century
9.55 - 10.15	The Spanish experience on financial education - presentation of the virtual exhibition on the history of savings and financial education - a representative of CECABank
10.20 - 10.40	Country reports on financial literacy from a historical and current perspective
10.40 - 10.55	Discussion
10.55 - 11.20	Coffee break
11.20 - 11.40	Country reports on financial literacy from a historical and current perspective : Romania
11.45 - 12.05	Alfred Paleczny - The activities of the Austrian savings banks in the field of financial knowledge from a historical point of view
12.05 - 12.20	Discussion
12.20 - 12.50	Univ. Prof. Dr. Bettina Fuhrmann - Current study by the Vienna University of Economics and Business on the Status of Financial Knowledge in Austria
12.50 - 14.00	Lunch at ERSTE Campus
14.00 - 15.15	Visit of the Financial Literacy Park
15.30 - 16.30	Visit of the Corporate Archives
16.30	End of the Workshop