Project number : CIF/ERSTE_2/2025
2025-2026

Money Matters: Empowering Financial Literacy Through Game-Based Learning

Money Matters is an innovative project financed by CIF to create an educational card game that transforms financial literacy training into engaging, interactive gameplay. The game features challenge cards with real-world financial scenarios, tool cards offering strategic solutions, and event cards introducing unexpected life situations. Players navigate practical financial decisions while developing critical thinking, collaboration, and democratic skills like dialogue and teamwork. Designed for youth, adults, and educators, the project emphasizes inclusivity through multilingual content and culturally relevant scenarios that ensure accessibility across diverse European communities.

The project extends beyond the physical card game to include comprehensive digital resources: printable PDF versions, an interactive online flipbook, and video tutorials accessible through QR codes. Money Matters integrates into existing educational frameworks while maintaining sustainability through its free, printable format that removes economic barriers. The initiative aims to build more financially literate and democratically engaged communities by empowering players to apply their financial skills within their local contexts, with potential future development into a mobile app based on the card game’s success.

The project “Money Matters” was funded by the Civic Innovation Fund (CIF), a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. CIF is supported by the ERSTE Foundation.