In Kyrgyzstan, close collaboration with the Ministry of Education and local authorities, supported by a mix of in-person and digital outreach, has driven significant growth in this year’s Economic Olympiad. Participation has more than doubled, reaching over 12,000 students across 400+ schools.
In 2025, Economic Fundamentals Initiative saw ambitious goals take root and inspire meaningful change across Kosovo, Georgia, Ukraine, and North Macedonia.
EFI countries made up 11 of the 28 participating nations, sending 55 bright young economists – and no doubt future leaders – to compete with the best out of 120,000 students worldwide at the International Final Round of the Economics Olympiad.
In gatherings from the scenic slopes of Gudauri, Georgia to the breathtaking Carpathian peaks of Ukraine, the finalists of the 2025 Economics Olympiad across 11 countries are spending their summer a little differently this year.
When Dinara Nariman and Tomiris Ospan have a vision to empower their fellow students in economics education.
EFI’s Teacher Training Pilot is a project with limitless ambition: our goal is nothing less than to expand and improve the quality of economics teaching and to offer a pathfinder for countries seeking to raise their national standards of economic and financial literacy.
The Kyiv-based Bendukidze Free Market Center was one of EFI’s early country partners, and has been a stalwart companion from our early days as book translator and distributor, to our evolution into the driver of an economic and financial literacy campaign that now spans 11 countries.
EFI is honored to have been selected as the recipient of the 2024 Award in recognition of our focus on network building for sustainability and impact.
