Skoala

Financial education platform for schools

The story

Once upon a time, there was a goal of Česká spořitelna and ČS Foundation to provide quality financial education to all the Czech children.
Neuron collective and other experts were brought on board to help to create concept of digital education, provide content and build the brand of the new teachers platform.

  • 8.5 thousand young people under 30 in Czechia are in personal bankruptcy.

    Institute for Debt Prevention and Resolution, 2025

  • One out of every five students in the first year of secondary school is not financially literate.

    Report of the Czech Inspectorate of Education, 2024

  • There are 645,724 debt enforcement proceedings in the Czech Republic.

    2023

  • 83% of Czech teachers need engaging activities for their financial education lessons.

    Questionnaire survey Metodica, 2024

  • In the last two years, the level of financial literacy has not increased by a single percentage point.

    Ipsos Agency, 2024

  • Existing materials are focused on the development of knowledge, less or not at all on competences.

    PISA 2022 National Report Financial Literacy

Drafting concepts

In the beginning there was lots of concept sketching, countless collaborative workshops and meetings and ideation how to build sustainable and entertaining educational digital financial education for schools.

The ČS foundation had a framework for financial education, based on competences. The key challenge was to develop set of tools and principles, that we can give to teachers to help them with education.

How can we build a system that will fit all the different needs teachers have and how to create education for whole range from elementary to high school?

Dreamteam

Scope of this project required many financial education experts and third party partners on ČS foundation side, who had experience with educational projects and connection to network of schools and institutions. Important step was when they teamed up with Applifting (IT solution), HAZE agency (creative and content) and Neuron Collective (digital concept, analysis, visuals).

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Key aspects of modern education

During analysis we have identified what students prefer on education and it increases their attention: playfulness, interactivity and digital approach.

At the same time, we have found out, that what teachers need related to the education materials is clarity and simplicity, expert guarantee and most importantly minimum time for preparation.

Who are our target groups?

  • 118 945

    School teachers

  • 5 559

    Schools

  • 1 485 104

    pupils

Skoala was born

The name Skoala is a lighter wordplay, inspired by the Scandinavian term skola (school).

Skoala represents a way to modern and playful learning and makes full use of digital tools for the 21st century.

We have created a recognizeable and bold complex visual style.

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From MVP to production

Whole process started with design sprint and intensive MVP stage where we have built whole platform and filled it with content. It was thoroughly tested in schools and consulted with countless experts in the field. Process of content creation had many rounds of feedback so we can guarantee high quality standards.

In Februrary 2025, the whole project was fully launched.

Visual library

Skoala was equipped with vast illustration library of more than 1 000 illustrations, drawn by Daniel Špaček (Neuron Collective). Reusable illustration assets of numerous themes are supporting efficient creation of education materials, presentations and games.

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Content tools

To support project content creation sustainability, we have developed for most of its interactive content several easily replicable tools. Using wide illustration library we can create new content in a fraction of a production time.

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Skoala content

  • 100+

    complex educational materials

  • 40+

    games, infographics and videos

  • 9

    reusable content tools

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  • CLIENT

    David Hubáček
    Anna Dvořáková
    Hana Kopačková
    Dana Brandenburg
    Matúš Bizoň
    Vlastimil Vaněk
    Dagmar Biersaková
    Radka Felixová
    Lucie Ellingerová
    Michaela Chovítková
    Petr Vraný
    Lucie Ismail
    Jakub Mareš
    Lenka Krejčířová
    Markéta Duchková
    Jana Lhotáková
    Andrea Dlouhá
    Radka Zemanová
    Marie Fojtíková
    Michaela Večeřová

  • CONTENT EXTERNISTS

    Magda Pečená
    Lenka Mužíčková
    Petr Liška
    Veronika Šancová
    Zuzana Večeřová
    Tomáš Langer
    Daniela Jobertová
    Hana Žežulová
    Jana Stejskalová

  • IT SOLUTION

    Vratislav Kalenda
    Jana Bakešová
    Martin Balák
    Branislav Benčík
    Jan Černý
    Michal Čížek
    Timotej Gavura
    Damián Gorný
    Marek Honzal
    Jan Kasal
    Tomáš Mairych
    Ondřej Moravčík
    Denny Nguen
    Jakub Pšenička
    Lukáš Rychtecký
    Michaela Snopková
    Tereza Šimková
    Vítězslav Špiřík
    Kateřina Šuláková
    Ota Vlna
    Petr Vnenk
    Klára Vytisková
    Anna Zlámalová

  • CONTENT

    Jakub Hussar
    Milan Mach
    Blanka Adame
    Jakub Stárka
    Pavel Trávníček
    Jan Koflák
    Hana Fruhwirtová
    Barbora Klárová
    Tomáš Holub
    Tomáš Hájek
    Lukáš Turza
    Jano Zajíc

  • CONTENT, CONCEPTS, VISUALS

    Daniel Špaček



    ARTICLES

    Karolína Kavan