Congratulations to our Transition Years Matthew Irwin, Jane Shannon and Roisin Sheedy who were successful with the first round quiz in The Generation €uro Students' Award and will now progress to round two.
The Generation €uro Students' Award is Ireland's leading economics competition for Transition and 5th Year students. Every year they search for Ireland’s brightest young economists to enact the role of the European Central Bank’s Governing Council, perform their own analysis of the economy and set what they believe is an appropriate interest rate for the euro area. Students enter the competition in teams of three to five, with our nominated teacher Ms Quinn acting as mentor. Participants are tested over three different rounds - a quiz, a written analysis and a presentation.
Matthew, Jane and Roisin were successful from the online quiz and proceed to the second round where they are asked to analyse economic conditions and determine what they believe to be the appropriate interest rate for the euro area.
Three finalists are then chosen to attend the National Final, where they present their findings to a panel of senior economists at the Central Bank. The winning team and teacher travel to the ECB in Frankfurt for an award ceremony where they meet the ECB President and the winning teams from across Europe. Well done so far to Matthew, Jane and Roisin, here is hoping we see ye jetting off to Frankfurt!