Central Bank calls on Kildare students to enter competition searching for brightest young economists

The Central Bank of Ireland is searching for Ireland’s brightest young economists and is encouraging local students across Kildare to enter the Generation €uro schools competition.

Generation €uro is Ireland’s leading economics competition for Transition Year and Fifth Year students. The competition is run by the Central Bank of Ireland in partnership with the European Central Bank (ECB).

The winning team and teacher will travel to the ECB in Frankfurt for an award ceremony where they will meet ECB President Christine Lagarde and the other winning teams from across Europe.

Director of Economics and Statistics at the Central Bank, Robert Kelly said: “We are really looking forward to this year’s Generation Euro competition and to hearing from students around Ireland. Ireland’s next generation of social scientists, the people who will work in Ireland, Europe and across the globe making decisions, setting policies that affect our daily lives, are in school right now, and we want to meet them. The competition gives students the chance to build valuable life skills while challenging themselves to learn more about the work performed by the European Central Bank, the Eurosystem and the Central Bank of Ireland.”

Students can enter the competition by 3 February on our website, in teams of three to five, with a teacher acting as mentor.

The competition finalists will present their findings to a panel of senior economists from the Central Bank before a national winner is announced.

Further details, including how to enter, are available at - https://www.centralbank.ie/ about/generation-euro- students-award