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Educational activities in the field of the financial market are carried out mainly at the UKNF as part of the project the Education Centre for Market Participants - CEDUR.

CEDUR is a long-term project carried out since 2008. It is aimed at promoting and disseminating financial literacy and understanding of how the financial market operates by using for this purpose various methods of education: training seminars, workshops, publications, podcast UKNF entitled „Finance under supervision” and Competition for the Award of the Chair of the KNF Board for the best PhD dissertation in the field of financial markets).   

The main part of CEDUR are training seminars and workshops addressed to carefully selected groups of participants and the educational publications as well.

The recipients of educational initiatives within CEDUR are:
  • representatives of entities supervised by the KNF
  • representatives of unions/associations of entities supervised by the KNF
  • public institutions, including judiciary, prosecutors and law enforcement officers
  • institutions competent for protection of rights of non-professional financial market participants (among others municipality and district-level consumer ombudsmen) 
  • retail investors 
  • senior citizens 
  • school environment - teachers and methodologists interested in the issues concerning financial market (among others teachers of economics, social studies at secondary schools) - via this group, we try to reach the future consumers – pupils.

From 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2023, within the CEDUR project there were organised 1128 free of charge events. According to estimates, the numer of audience reached over 187,7 thousand.

The subject of the seminars CEDUR, depending on the audience, focuses mainly on current issues concerning financial market supervision, changes in laws and regulations, cyber threats, as well as offences detection on the financial market, the protection of financial services consumers.

If you have any questions concerning seminars CEDUR, please do not hesitate to contact us: e-mail: cedur@knf.gov.pl

More information on the financial education realised by UKNF is available in Polish