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Award ceremony of the "Generation €uro Students' Award" secondary school competition
13.05.2026
The award ceremony of the secondary school competition “Generation €uro Students’ Award” was held on Tuesday 5 May 2026 at the BCL’s headquarters. It concluded the thirteenth edition, launched in October 2025, of the competition in Luxembourg.
48 teams took part in the first round of the competition, an online quiz with 30 questions about the Eurosystem and its monetary policy. Of these 48 teams, 15 were selected for the second round, in which they had to make a monetary policy decision and explain in writing the reasoning behind that decision.
The final of Monday 27 April 2026 brought together the top five teams from the second round, which had to present a new monetary policy decision and answer questions from the BCL jury.
On Tuesday 5 May 2026, Mr. Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL and member of the Governing Council of the ECB, opened the award ceremony, in the presence of representatives from the participating schools’ management and parents, before the results were announced.
The list of laureates is as follows:
- First prize: EZAE from the St. Georges’ International School, composed of Zoi Akritidou, Eileen Cardone, Eleonore Cornelis and Adriana Jansen (teacher: Ms. Julia Van Kalles);
- Second prize: Future ECB Interns from the St. Georges’ International School, composed of Gabriel Borghesi, Darcy Harcourt, Edward Hudson and João Margarido (teacher: Ms. Julia Van Kalles);
- Third prize: Euro Visionaries from the European School Luxembourg II, composed of Lucas Kuhn, Lola Kralj, Mattia Paganotti and Marko Puc (teacher: Ms. Adriana Topal);
- Fourth prize: The Trilemma from the European School I, composed of Pilar Garcia De Miguel, Daniel Holmes Arévalo and Katariina Soralahti (teacher: Mr. Lars Thuesen);
- Fifth prize: ELLURE from the Athénée de Luxembourg, composed of Luca De Vuono, Elisa Dondelinger and Rebecca Lentschat (teacher: Mr. Christophe Baustert).
The "Generation €uro Students' Award" is organized by the BCL in Luxembourg and is aimed at students of 2nd or 12th grade studying economics. The competition is played in teams of three to five students supervised by a teacher "coach". It is open to all schools in Luxembourg. Participation is possible in English or French. The competition is also organized in France by the Banque de France.
More information on the competition is available on the Luxembourg page of the www.generationeuro.eu website, as well as on request by email: generationeuro@bcl.lu.
Mr Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL, and the members of EZAE with their teacher.
Mr Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL, and the members of Future ECB Interns with their teacher.
Mr Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL, and the members of Euro Visionaries with their teacher.
Mr Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL, and the members of The Trilemma with their teacher.
Mr Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL, and the members of ELLURE with their teacher.
Mr Gaston Reinesch, Governor of the BCL, and the five finalist teams with their teachers, during the awards ceremony of the 2025-2026 edition.
