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Train-the-trainer workshop in Prague launches Teacher Training Pilot
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 pilot is being run in 3 ...
Partner profile: Georgia – a new NGO committed to bringing economic literacy to the nation’s education system
In late 2021, three driven young economists, fueled by a shared passion to improve national standards of economic and financial education, formed the ...
Partner profile - Kosovo: Riinvest Institute as pioneer of liberal economic thinking
Pristina-based Riinvest Institute is Kosovo’s oldest think tank and a pivotal force in the country’s economic evolution. Founded on a mission to promo...
Thanking James Gwartney, pre-eminent economist and educator
The EFI community is saddened by the death of James Gwartney, lead author of “Common Sense Economics” and co-author of the Economic Freedom of the Wor...
Georgia: the monks helping students realize their potential
Nestled in a remote and isolated valley in southwest Georgia, the village of Zarzma is home to a remarkable educational project. In addition to their ...
Partner profile - North Macedonia: a small NGO punches above its weight
EFI’s partner in North Macedonia, the Liberal Alternative Institute (LAI), was established in 2012 by a group of young activists returning from their ...
South Caucasus: Economic Reporting Workshops Offer The Exchange of Ideas
Seasoned and trainee journalists in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan had an unusual professional development opportunity this summer thanks to workshop...
Kyrgyzstan: Bringing Learning Opportunity to Students in Isolated Regions
How would you learn if there were no materials in your native language? For countries whose education systems were dominated by Russian for decades, t...
Georgia: a summer camp in the sun delivers winning results
More than 1200 students from 318 of Georgia’s high schools took part in the 2023 Economics Olympiad, an international competition designed to inspire ...
The future of my country is in the hands of people just like me
Economics easily explained. That’s our mantra at EFI. And so what would make more sense than to support 8 of our partners to run an [Economics Olympia...
A different kind of educational collaboration
EFI’s partner in Ukraine, [Bendukidze Free Market Center](https://bendukidze.org/en/home-page-en/), works with teachers across the country to help imp...
Competing across countries
This year, EFI has supported its partners in 8 countries to oversee the Economics Olympiad, a multi-round competition for high school students which c...
Pushing curriculum reform
For the past two academic years, EFI has supported its partner in Georgia, the Georgian Economic Literacy Initiative, to design and deliver an introdu...
Bridging the language divide
[EFI’s multimedia library](https://www.econfun.org/en/library) is a treasure trove of economic content for learners and teachers alike. It contains a ...