Life Capital

1st National Tournament: Ukraine

Organisers and guests at the 1st All-Ukrainian stage of FinGameUA-2025, KNEU, Kyiv, March 2025.

Kyiv · 21 March 2025

21 March 2025, Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University (KNEU). The first all-Ukrainian stage of the national tournament FinGameUA–2025, played on the Life Capital board: 36 players in 6 teams from Cherkasy, Odesa, Ternopil, Kyiv and Kyiv Oblast (team list as the Zghurivka community council recorded it). The moderator was Tetiana Horoshkova, financial literacy ambassador.

Winner: Kyiv team

Round table

Alongside the tournament the KNEU Faculty of Finance held a round table, “Development of Youth Financial Education: Synergy of Interaction”, with the National Bank of Ukraine, the Deposit Guarantee Fund and the Ministry of Education.

Serhii Ivaglo, co-author of the game, spoke on multisector partnership in financial education. He described the Kryvyi Rih coordination model, in which city authorities, volunteers, financial literacy ambassadors, a commercial bank and the national regulator each contributed the resource they held in surplus.

People and organizations

Key figures

  • Dmytro Lukianenko, Rector of KNEU
  • Anatoliy Kolot, Vice-Rector of KNEU
  • Andrii Olenchyk, Deposit Guarantee Fund
  • Olena Tryhub, National Bank of Ukraine
  • Tetiana Horoshkova, financial literacy ambassador, tournament moderator

Organizations

  • Kyiv National Economic University (KNEU)
  • National Bank of Ukraine
  • Deposit Guarantee Fund
  • Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine
  • NGO Business Club “Partner”

The stage was coordinated by Tetiana Stetsiuk, Professor at KNEU.