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.
What’s new?
Follow our latest news to see how EFI is expanding access to economic education and strengthening communities worldwide. From new partnerships to on-the-ground success stories, this is where we share our progress and momentum. Explore the stories shaping our mission.
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.
Kazakhstan: Two young leaders promoting economics education
When Dinara Nariman and Tomiris Ospan have a vision to empower their fellow students in economics education.
EFI receives 2024 Smith Student Outreach Award
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.
Ukraine: Bendukidze Free Market Center champions the case for increasing economic understanding in young people
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.
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.
