In the student project “Youth and Economy”, high school students read the FAZ for a year and write articles themselves, the best of which are printed in the business section of the newspaper.

On Wednesday, the outstanding student achievements of the previous year were honored in a festive event in Frankfurt's Palmengarten.

The award ceremony was opened by EU Financial Market Commissioner Mairead McGuinness.

In a video message she paid tribute to the outstanding achievements of the students.

The project contributes to financial maturity.

Lisa Becker

Editor in business

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The keynote address was given by Christian Sewing, CEO of Deutsche Bank and President of the Association of German Banks, whom the individual award winners also interviewed.

The project makes "the economy alive, and that is exactly what the economy needs," said Sewing.

He hoped that “Youth and Business” got the students excited about economic topics.

"The world can no longer be understood without economic knowledge." Only with this knowledge can one form a well-founded opinion about the party programs of the parties, for example.

“Economic education must be firmly anchored in schools,” demanded Sewing.

But economic questions are still neglected there.

The prizes for the best individual achievements went to Liam Schäpers from the Hans-Böckler-Berufskolleg in Münster, Milena Kamp from the Mallinckrodt-Gymnasium in Dortmund and Charline Sachau from the Gymnasium Ohmoor in Hamburg.

The following awards were given for the best performance of the entire course: the Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium in Gießen, the Hans-Böckler-Berufskolleg in Münster and the Parler Gymnasium in Schwäbisch Gmünd.

FAZ publisher Gerald Braunberger, managing director of the banking association, Christian Ossig, and chairman of the board of trustees of the FAZIT foundation, Karl Dietrich Seikel, congratulated the winners.

The FAZ has been organizing “Youth and Business” since 2000 together with the banking association.

Including the class starting with the new school year, the project has around 25,000 students.