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Final and award ceremony of the "Generation €uro Students' Award" secondary school competition
28.04.2025
The final and award ceremony of the Eurosystem’s secondary school competition “Generation €uro Students’ Award” were held on Thursday 3 April 2025 at the BCL’s headquarters. It concluded the twelfth edition, launched in October 2024, of the competition in Luxembourg.
71 teams took part in the first round of the competition, an online quiz with 30 questions about the Eurosystem and its monetary policy. Of these 71 teams, 21 were selected for the second round, in which they had to make a monetary policy decision and explain in writing the reasoning behind that decision.
The final of Thursday 3 April 2025 brought together the top three teams from the second round, which had to present a new monetary policy decision and answer questions from the BCL jury.
After the teams’ presentations and the jury’s deliberation, Mr. Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL and member of the Governing Council of the ECB, opened the award ceremony.
The list of laureates is as follows:
First prize: Inflation Busters II from the European School Luxembourg I, composed of Simon Lallemand, Lukas Jacob Pietilä Párraga, Elias Riquelme Runesson and Leonardo Rodrigues di Biaggio (teacher: Mr. Lars Naesgaard Thuesen);
- Second prize: The Three Economists from the St. Georges’ International School, composed of Sara Ghafoor, Tanishka Kale and Elena Wuethrich (teacher: Ms. Julia Van Kalles);
- Third prize: Modus Ponens from the European School Luxembourg I, composed of Samuel Brassey, Christophe Dupont, Daniel Holmes, Johannes Hussler and Truls Svalborn (teacher: Mr. Lars Naesgaard Thuesen).
The "Generation €uro Students' Award" is organized by the BCL in Luxembourg and is aimed at students of 2nd or 12th grade studying economics. The competition is played in teams of three to five students supervised by a teacher "coach". It is open to all schools in Luxembourg. Participation is possible in English or French. The competition is organized simultaneously in several member countries of the euro area by the respective national central banks.
More information on the competition is available on the Luxembourg page of the www.generationeuro.eu website, as well as on request by email: generationeuro@bcl.lu.
Mr Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL, and the members of the Inflation Busters II team.
Mr Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL, and the members of the The Three Economists team.
Mr Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL, and the members of the Modus Ponens team.
Mr Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL, the three finalist teams with their teachers and the BCL jury, during the awards ceremony of the 2024-2025 edition.
