For the academic year 2023-24, we are offering second-year students the chance to participate in our financial literacy project. This is an interdisciplinary project within qNomics jointly collaborated with another school. The students from SEF will work in groups breaking down concepts, prioritising key aspects of theory by making it easily digestible. With the technical support from other SKETCH pillar, these knowledge bits will be further converted into interactive tools by allowing the content to be easily accessible and readable.
Read the Leaflet_ Financial Literacy project 23-24 [PDF 126KB] before you apply.
If you are selected to this project, you will have a chance to:
It takes place during Semester A and B of each academic year – starts in September and finishes in April the following year. Please see the below for a breakdown in the timeline of the programme.
For this programme, you are expected to have business acumen learned through academics or work experience; you will be working on financial and business concepts.
In addition, you must possess:
Please make sure you are eligible and can commit to this time before applying.
This project spans across both Semester A and B.
Here is the detailed Timeline FL [PDF 98KB] with deadlines.
Hopefully the other pages on our website have answered most questions, but here are some other questions we get asked.
You are expected to dedicate around 4-6 hours per week for finance Literacy project. Keep in mind however, that everyone works very hard to keep up a high standard of service in qNomics, and you and your group may be required to do a few drafts before your final project is accepted.
Additionally, qNomics cannot be used as an excuse for falling behind on your regular studies. Therefore, if you normally have trouble keeping up with work, this project may not be for you. However, if you are a well-organized person, who enjoys doing research, producing resources to educate an audience regarding key concepts and thrives in group projects, then this project should not take up more than a few hours per week. From the surveys with current and previous participants, they reported to spend around 45 hours each semester attending meetings, conducting research and prototyping and building resources.
If you have the ability to effectively research, evaluate, and use information, resources, and to make it easily comprehensive for a specific audience, then this project is for you. If you have previous experience working with multimedia projects and interactive digital tools, then it is a bonus.
For this project, qNomics team will be your supervisor leading and routinely providing feedback on your work. qNomics Academic Director, Dr. Leon Vinokur will be guiding you with direction and feedback.
Additionally, you will benefit form the other supervisors in qNomics programme who will be hosting training sessions on things like Business Planning, and Funding Support, etc. which can greatly aid your research work as well as many aspects of life outside of the university.
The qNomics team will assign you to a group at the outset of the programme. You are expected to be a part of this group and carry out the responsibilities you are assigned with. As in any group work setting, you will be assigned to a specific role and responsibilities. In addition to the regular catch ups with the qNomics team, you are free to set up as many meetings as you may require. You will continue to be part of the same group for both semester A & B.
All projects are designed to fit into your work life balance. Each program includes an estimated learner effort throughout the academic year. Following to the successful completion of your group task, provided that you have met the required programme standards, you will be eligible to receive HEAR accreditation (The qNomics programme will be listed on your digital transcript).