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Iconomix, the Swiss National Bank’s educational programme, provides up-to-date teaching units for teachers of economics. By offering this service, we promote economic literacy and equal opportunities.

More than 1,600 upper secondary school
teachers actively use Iconomix resources
to teach economics and humanities.

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Iconomix develops didactically enhanced teaching units tailored to the Swiss education system.

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Iconomix topics and educational examples are true to life and continuously adapted to current developments.

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Iconomix enables activity-oriented teaching that harnesses the potential of playful, multimedial learning.

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Iconomix contributes to the digitalisation of schools at the level of both preparing and teaching.

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All Iconomix teaching units are based on sound economic and educational principles, and have been tested in the classroom as well as reviewed by external experts.

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Iconomix is the most frequently used supplementary programme for teaching economics at Swiss baccalaureate and vocational schools.

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We bring you Iconomix news and recommend articles and offerings from our partners as well as from leading experts in the fields of economics and education.

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On our own behalf
07.06.2022

The news section of Iconomix

Iconomix is now launching the news section in English. Here we will inform you about the latest news at Iconomix and about offers from our partners.

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Units: news and updates
07.06.2022

Monetary policy unit: Knowledge sheet replaces MOPOS

Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures: In the aftermath of the 2007/2008 financial crisis, monetary policy changed substantially – not just in Switzerland but worldwide. How can the functioning of today’s monetary policy be described in a way that captures these changes? A new Iconomix knowledge sheet provides an answer.

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Studies
07.06.2022

Dopesick: When Innovation Goes Wrong

The U.S. has already suffered more than one million deaths in the context of Covid-19. However, this is not the only health crisis America is fighting. Since the late 1990s, more than half a million people have died from an opioid overdose. 

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On our own behalf
07.06.2022

Seven things you need to know about Iconomix

Economic and financial literacy is a fundamental life skill for finding one's way in today's complex world. Iconomix makes an important contribution to this with mostly experience-oriented teaching and learning materials. The following story provides answers to two pertinent questions: Why and how?

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On our own behalf
07.06.2022

Swiss National Bank investing in education

To mark the 10th anniversary of Iconomix in 2017, the Swiss magazine “Die Volkswirtschaft” (English: The Economy) published an article on the SNB's educational offering. We translated this article into English.

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07.06.2022

The Swiss National Bank goes to school – with Iconomix

The SNB was taking the ten-year anniversary of Iconomix as an opportunity to present its education portal to a wider public. The article appeared in the SNB Quarterly Bulletin 2/2018.

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Games
07.06.2022

The Climate Game

Shut down coal-fired power plants, introduce sustainable aviation fuels, or increase CO2 levies? In the Financial Times Climate Game, you take on the role of a global minister for future generations and make decisions to curb the rise in global temperatures.

Can you achieve net zero by 2050?

 

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