The Banque de France and the La Finance pour Tous association (IEFP) have come together to create Scènes d’argent, a mobile game dedicated to financial education, via the budgetary and financial economic education mission (EDUCFI). The objective? Raise awareness among students and young professionals about personal finance management.
Money Scenes is a mobile game available on smartphones from Apple And Android. This game is also available in line. It is primarily aimed at students and young professionals (18-30 years old).
The ambition is to support a public often confronted with budgetary management issues, but it is also a generation preparing for financial independence. “ They have a lot to learn about the reflexes to have when choosing insurance or when choosing accommodation: do I rent or do I buy? How do I talk to my landlord? », explains Pascale Micoleau-Marcel, deputy director of La Finance pour Tous.
Raising awareness of personal finances through gaming
The principle of Scènes d’argent is to immerse you in the daily life of a character by pushing you to make several decisions related to the management of personal finances. The story covers the entire life of a student/young worker via 27 scenes grouped into 7 type sequences: student life, entry into the world of work, loss of job, arrival of a child, etc.
With Scènes d’argent, La Finance pour Tous and the Banque de France raise awareness of personal finance management through a set of scenes, but also quizzes or summaries and educational sheets which cover the main themes covered in each sequence. The two institutions even imagine Scènes d’argent as an educational tool dedicated to learning budgetary management for relay audiences such as teachers or startup coaches.
Scènes d’argent adapts to your choices, your decisions, but also to all possible types of paths. Whether you want to buy an apartment or rather rent, or whether you decide to start your own business, the game from EDUCFI and La Finance pour Tous aims to cover all situations in the life of an average French person. The game may also be updated from time to time to integrate new sequences.
EDUCFI, what is it?
EDUCFI is the economic, budgetary and financial education strategy of which the Banque de France is the national operator. This entity aims to improve the knowledge and behavior of French people in terms of personal finance management.
In 2008, the International Network on Financial Education (iNFE) was created within the OECD, whose mission is to help public authorities implement financial education strategies, but also to deploy programs aimed at supporting the public on the management of personal finances. It is within this framework that the EDUCFI strategy was created.
On a daily basis, this entity operated by the Banque de France works with young people, the general public and small entrepreneurs, but also with teachers, social workers and those supporting entrepreneurs. This support involves a certain number of tools, including videos, educational sheets, but also games of which Scènes d’argent is one.
