OREANDA-NEWS. On September 1, Knowledge Day, the popular free educational course “Investing in the future” developed by Plekhanov Russian University of Economics will be launched on the www.universarium.org platform at the initiative of Sberbank.

Listeners’ comments and suggestions, received during the course, were taken into consideration during the development of the new educational course. For example, the topics that students were most interested in will be covered in detail, and tests and homework will be revised.

The course focuses on improving the financial literacy of young people: How to set financial goals. Why we need insurance. Where to borrow money and how to choose the best conditions. Where to invest money. And how to manage complex financial arrangements in everyday life. Course materials will help answer these and other questions.

The course “Investing in the future”, launched in May, 2014, attracted more than 36,000 people. To take part in the course you need to register on the Universarium platform and sign up for the course: http://universarium.org/courses/info/345.

Sberbank is supporting the course “Investing in the future” as part of its communications strategy for promoting financial literacy. This year the bank set out to create comfortable simple and accessible resources for finding information and for self education in finance. The course “Investing in the future” is one of these projects.

Universarium.org is an online e-learning system based on massive open online courses. The project’s mission is to provide quality free education, from leading professors at Russia’s best universities, to millions of people.