Research Projects
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Financial Education for Apprentices
2024 - 2027The project Financial Education for Apprentices under the project head Bettina Fuhrmann is in its initial stages. (Status: 22.10.2024)
Financial Literacy Coaches +
2022 - ....Financial Literacy Coaches are about to graduate from WU Vienna with a degree in Business Education and have attended a number of additional courses on financial education while studying at WU.
At the request of a school, they prepare a teaching concept on specific financial education topics and also (depending on availability) come to the school to teach the class.
Erasmus+ Project: FLIP - Financial Literacy International Platform
2019 - 2021The main goal of FLIP is to establish an efficient and sustainable model of financial education through development and implementation of the Financial Literacy course at the participating universities. This will ensure a regular flow of students who will be educated to deliver financial education to disadvantaged citizens.
University students are multipliers who can reach and spread acquired knowledge further among their families, acquaintances, community, and other citizens in their natural social environment which will significantly contribute to positive change in their financial behavior.
Erasmus+ Project Partners
Economic Competencies in Austria
2018 - 2021Investigation into the economic knowledge and understanding of economic interrelationships, interests and attitudes after the Matura and Reife- und Diplomprüfung, respectively.
Project staff: Shireen Sarwari
Supported with funds from the B&C Private Foundation
NAINA Studies – Ideas about Economy and Economic Education
2017 - 2022This project investigated what ideas young people have about the economy and their economic classes. In addition, the connection between young people's economic knowledge and their propensity to start a business was investigated.
Project staff: Julia Riess
Supported with funds from the Jubilee Fund of the Austrian National Bank
Tax Literacy and Tax Compliance
2017 - 2020Two research projects investigated the relationship between tax knowledge, attitudes towards taxes and tax compliance. This included the evaluation of digital learning content on tax education with regard to learning effectiveness, attitudes and tax compliance.
Project staff: Nora Cechovsky and Michael Posch
Partly funded by the Joachim Herz Foundation
Journal article
| 2018 | Posch, Michael, Aflenzer, Birgit. 2018. Die Förderung von Tax Literacy als Beitrag zur ökonomischen Bildung von Schüler/innen – Erste Einblicke in ein Projekt der WU Wien und der Joachim Herz Stiftung. Read more |
Research report, expert opinion
| 2020 | Fuhrmann, Bettina, Posch, Michael. 2020. Förderung der Tax Literacy und Tax Compliance von Schüler/innen – Das Steuersystem erklären und die Steuerehrlichkeit fördern. Read more |
Conference poster
| 2021 | Posch, Michael. 2021. The role of tax literacy in contributing to sustainability. Read more |
| 2018 | Posch, Michael. 2018. Die Förderung von Tax Literacy als Beitrag zur Wirtschafts- und Verbraucher/innenbildung - Erste Einblicke in ein Projekt der WU Wien und der Joachim Herz Stiftung. Read more |
| 2018 | Posch, Michael. 2018. Das Steuersystem erklären und die Steuerehrlichkeit fördern - Erste Einblicke in ein Projekt der WU Wien und der Joachim Herz Stiftung. Read more |
Financial Education in Austria
2016 - 2019A sub-working group of INFE, in cooperation with OeNB, published a catalogue of “core competencies” in financial literacy of adolescents, defining which knowledge and skills in financial issues children and adolescents should present at different age levels. This is a study (FinCCA – Financial Core Competencies in Austria) on the OECD Core Competences for Financial Literacy of young people and the extent to which they are covered by curricula and textbooks for Austrian compulsory schools.
Project staff: Julia Riess
Project in cooperation with the University of Graz and the Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Funded with higher education structural funds from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
Economic Education in Austria
2016 - 2019Economic Education from the Perspective of AHS Students
This project focused on the question to what extent high school students (upper level of AHS) feel empowered to actively determine their lives in terms of the objectives of economic education beyond the protected sphere of their schools.
Project staff: Julia RIESS (as Julia SZONCSITZ)
Economic Literacy in 8th Grade
2015 - 2018This is a study on economic knowledge, attitudes and interests of high school students at the end of lower secondary school. The aim of the project is to develop a survey instrument for economic knowledge, attitudes towards the economic system and interest in economics.
Project staff: Herwig Rumpold
Pretest supported with funds from the Austrian Economic Chambers
Research report, expert opinion
High School Students and their Attitudes towards Money
2015 - 2018This is a study on the relationship between financial education, attitudes towards money and behavior in financially relevant situations (consuming, saving and borrowing money). The objective of the research project is the empirical investigation of the handling of money and the financial environment of high school students at the end of lower secondary school.
Project staff: Stefan Grohs-Müller
Funded by the Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Measuring Financial Literacy
2015 - 2017This is an analysis of Austrian data from the international OECD-Measuring Financial Literacy Study with regard to financial knowledge, attitudes towards money and behavior of adults in financially relevant situations together with experts from the Oesterreichische Nationalbank.
Financial Literacy - from the Perspective of Executives
2015Being in the focus of policy, education and research, the relevance of financial matters has given rise to increased national, international and supranational initiatives promoting financial literacy. Here, the Institute for Business Education was part of a Europe-wide study on the financial education of self-employed and employed working people in Europe from the perspective of managers in European companies.
Project statt: Julia Riess
Funded by Junior Achievement Europe
Research report, expert opinion
| 2016 | Riess, Julia, Fuhrmann, Bettina. 2016. Sharpening Financial Education. How the right partnerships can hone the skills of tomorrow's entrepreneurs and employees. Read more |
Other (completed) Projects
Leonardo Project: Hybrid qualifications - Increasing the value of Vocational Education and Training in the context of Lifelong Learning
Evaluation and synthesis for comments on the consultation report on the development and implementation of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) in Austria
Concomitant research of the talent promotion model Schumpeter-Handelsakademie
Utilization of the curricular and didactic design options of the HAS curriculum 2003 for reforms at Handelsschulen
EFEU - Entrepreneurship for one-person companies
ELAC - E-Learning Academy
Concomitant research for the introduction of the new competence-based and learning outcome-oriented curriculum of the Praxis-Handelsschule (funded by bm:ukk)
Institute for Business Education