The Hellenic Bank Association (HBA) participates for an eleventh consecutive year with relevant activities in the "European Money Week" of the European Banking Federation and "Global Money Week" of OECD. 

The National Competition is only the first part of the joint initiative with the European Banking Federation concerning financial education programs for pupils aged 13-15 years old.

In this context, HBA successfully completed on March 19^th 2025, the eighth National Competition of the European Money Quiz. The competition was conducted online among 230 classes from 94 Schools (38 Gymnasiums and 56 High Schools) in Greece with the participation of 1.958 students, coming from Achaia, Arcadia, Argolida, Attica, Chania, Cyclades, Dodecanese, Evro, Heraklion, Ioannina, Karditsa, Kavala, Kozani, Laconia, Larissa, Lasithi, Lefkada, Lesbos, Magnesia, Pella, Pfthiotida, Rhodope, Serres, Thessaloniki, Trikala, Voiotia, and Xanthi.

The winner was class A1 of the High School ‘E. Mandoulides Schools’ in Thessaloniki, followed by class C2 and class C3 of the 1^st Protypo Gymnasium of Mytilene ‘Vyron Sivolapenko’ in Lesbos. The winning class will represent with two students its school and Greece in the European Money Quiz Competition, which will take place in Brussels on Thursday 22^th and Friday 23^th of May 2025.

 The first three winning classes will receive a PC for their school.

 HBA warmly thanks all the schools, students and teachers for their participation in the national competition and the interest they have shown in this initiative.

 Financial Literacy has been increasingly recognized as an important individual life skill in a majority of economies. HBA aim through this initiative, is to make financial education possible/accessible even in the most remote areas of Greece. Thus, the EMQ dedicated website www.hba.gr/info/emq will remain active throughout the year so that the Games and the digital book "First Steps in Finance" (Greek Edition) can be accessed by all, students, teachers and parents.