Brownbag Seminar Series

The MetaFin Brownbag Seminar promotes regular exchange between researchers working on funded projects and enables them to obtain feedback from the internal community. Potential collaborations between projects can be explored.

During the seminar, both early-stage project concepts (e.g. research designs, sampling and composition, survey instruments, etc.) and later project results can be presented and discussed. The aim is to regularly discuss ‘work in progress’ and to integrate an interdisciplinary perspective into the research projects through this format. This should facilitate networking between projects during the funding phase and active community building. Presenters can be either project managers or project staff.

The MetaFin Brownbag Seminar will start in September 2025 and will take place online every two to four weeks on Thursdays. All current dates and topics can be found here on the website and in the members' area. If you would like to present a topic, please send us an email.

We look forward to your contributions!

Thu. 18.09.25. / 13-14h: Numeracy and financial practices of different population groups – an overview based on the PIAAC study

Speaker: Klaus Buddeberg & Johanna Husting, Universität Hamburg

Abstract: The OECD's PIAAC study (Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies / Survey of Adult Skills) reports on the basic skills and everyday practices of adults. Everyday mathematical (numerical) skills and basic financial skills are not identical, but they are related in terms of content.

The research project ‘Everyday Financial Practices of Adults’ evaluates the PIAAC results with regard to questions of financial education. For the brown bag lecture, we will give a brief insight into the concept of the PIAAC study and then compile selected results on the everyday mathematical skills of different population groups. The proportion of adults with very low everyday mathematical competence is around 20 per cent, but the proportion is much higher for adults with low formal education, immigrants and older adults. Differences along socio-demographic and socio-economic characteristics are also apparent in everyday practices (e.g. calculating prices and budgets or searching for financially relevant information). When selecting the groups of people, we orient ourselves as far as possible towards the target groups of the other projects in the funding line.

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Do. 23.10.25. / 13-14h: Ansätze zur Kompetenzmodellierung in der finanziellen Bildung

Speaker: Carmela Aprea, Ronja Baginski, Matheus Zago

Abstract: Targeted monitoring is an essential foundation for the evidence-based design and evaluation of programmes aimed at promoting financial competence. The Financial Competence Monitor (FinKomp-Monitor) project seeks to establish such a foundation for the continuous monitoring of the financial competence of the adult population in Germany across all stages of life. This requires the development of suitable approaches to competence modelling and measurement, which will be discussed in this brown bag seminar. In addition to providing an overview and critical assessment of existing competence frameworks, we will present our ideas on the definition, modelling, and measurement of financial competence within the FinKomp-Monitor project in order to discuss them with the brown bag participants from the funding line.

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Thu. 04.12.25. / 13-14h: Explainable AI

Speaker: Andrej Gill

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