Economic Olympiad Surges Across Kyrgyzstan, Reaching 12,000+ Students
In 2025, Economic Fundamentals Initiative saw ambitious goals take root and inspire meaningful change across Kosovo, Georgia, Ukraine, and North Macedonia.
Our Stories.
Explore the latest impactful stories from EFI and our partners as we expand economic understanding across the regions we serve. From new initiatives and partnerships to stories from educators and students, these updates show how economic ideas are opening doors to opportunity and helping people make more informed decisions.
Empowering teachers, expanding access to economics education
In 2025, Economic Fundamentals Initiative saw ambitious goals take root and inspire meaningful change across Kosovo, Georgia, Ukraine, and North Macedonia.
Economics Olympiad 2025 finals – Spectacular results from ancient Olympia!
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.
Graphs, hikes & friendships: The economic bootcamp experience
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.
Young Leaders Driving Economics Education in Kazakhstan
When Dinara Nariman and Tomiris Ospan have a vision to empower their fellow students in economics education.
Prague Workshop Kicks Off 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.
Building Economic Understanding Among Ukraine’s Next Generation
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.
