The closing meeting of the project named “The Journey of Unemployed Adults from Financial Literacy to Enterpreneurship (JAFLE)”, numbered 2021-1-TR01-KA220-ADU-000033446, supported by the Turkish National Agency within the scope of the 2021 Erasmus+ Collaborative Partnerships in Adult Education activity, was held on 15.02.2024. .
In the two-year project coordinated by our university, E-School (Greece), Formative Footprint (Spain), Klaipedos Valstybine Kolegijakvk (Lithuania) and Financial Literacy Association (FODER) took part as partners.
Within the scope of the project, it was aimed to create an innovative financial literacy training program that includes entrepreneurship and digital literacy in the consortium countries and thus to encourage the employment of adults by improving their access to the labor market. In this context, educational opportunities were offered to adults with low financial literacy levels.
At the closing meeting, project coordinator Prof. Dr. Hatice Yurtsever made a speech about the project activities, successes of the project, difficulties encountered, opportunities and gains offered by the project. Financial Literacy and Access Association (FODER) Chairman of the Board of Directors, Mr. Zekeriya Öztürk, and Secretary General, Ms. Melisa Mumcu, also contributed to the meeting with their speeches on financial literacy in Turkey. At the end of the closing meeting, Dr. Lecturer Izabela Kurzawa from Poznań University of Life Sciences also gave information about the level of financial literacy in Poland.
At the meeting, project team members Prof. Dr. Pınar Pehlivan and Dr. Faculty Member Lale Yakupoğlu was also present.
