The Association for Economic and Social Studies and Forecasts (ASPES) on Monday releases the National Financial Education Programme for Romania (PNEFR), a strategic approach of training the financial skills of the younger generation.
The first stage of the programme starts on Monday, March 9, 2026, at the Henri Coanda National College of Aeronautics in Bucharest, one of the 15 schools included in the pilot project carried out in Bucharest.
The programme is initiated by ASPES and executive coordinated by Bogdan Petre, deputy chairman, who leads the implementation of this educational project.
In the first stage, the programme brings together university professors, finance specialists and business personalities who will hold interactive sessions dedicated to students, with a focus on understanding the fundamental economic mechanisms and on developing a solid financial culture.
The release event at the Henri Coanda Collegiate High School of Aeronautics will be attended, among others, by Adrian Mitroi, university professor at the Bucharest School of economics (ASE)Razvan Catalin Dobrea, university professor at the Bucharest School of Economics; Adrian Caruceru, expert in financial education, and Cristian Cosmin, a former deputy director of he National Credit Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises. (FNGCIMM).
The guest of honour of the event is Dumitru Dorin Prunariu, the first and only Romanian to fly into outer space, aboard a Soyuz-40 spacecraft in 1981.
"Without knowledge infrastructure, the country remains trapped in budgetary chaos, primitive economic behaviours and wrong decisions that will cost a lot nationwide. Financial education is no longer optional - it is the foundation on which a sound economy is built and a state that does not collapse under its own ignorance. Children must understand from an early age what the value of money and responsibility mean; pupils and students must learn how credit, savings, investments and taxation work; entrepreneurs need real risk management skills, accessing internal and external finance, using insurance tools and managing cash flow correctly. Romania needs financial education at all levels, without exception," according to Bogdan Petre, executive coordinator of the programme and vice-president of ASPES, quoted in the release.
PNEFR aims to develop a modern educational infrastructure in the field of personal finance and applied economics. The programme aims to introduce, in a systematic and practical way, essential concepts such as responsible management of personal financial resources; savings and investments; the functioning of lending and the banking system; the role of taxation in the economy; risk management and the role of insurance tools.
The outcome of a partnerships with academic, regulatory and authorization institutions, specialists in the financial business and educational units, the programme aims to train a generation capable of understanding economic mechanisms and making educated financial decisions.
The Henri Coanda National Collegiate High School of Aeronautics opens the series of schools that will participate in this project in 2026, with the programme being progressively extended to include other high schools and educational establishments from Romania.
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