France's Ministry of the Economy and Finance announced that the strategic committee for France's national economic, budgetary and financial education strategy, EDUCFI, has adopted a 2026-2027 action plan to widen access to economic and financial education. The plan is intended to strengthen digital delivery, deepen the strategy's place in schools and give it a stronger European dimension, with the EDUCFI Passport to be rolled out to all 4e students from the next school year. The five measures expand information and training for all citizens, including vulnerable groups, across topics such as savings, scams and investment, and increase the visibility of the EDUCFI label for neutral and reliable content that can be awarded to public or private actors. The passport will also be reinforced in vocational education, with an experiment in general and technological upper secondary education from 2027. In parallel, France aims to act as a European pilot for artificial intelligence in financial education through the EDUCFI+ project, which is intended to provide personalised guidance, and will take part in the OECD's next PISA financial literacy cycle in 2029. The committee also named Bank of France Governor François Villeroy de Galhau as France's national ambassador after the European Commission asked each member state to designate one.

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