Over the next six months, students from the School of Economics and Business Administration Trading Club will try to earn a return on investment from the EVO Bank Intelligent Fund in a competition that will pit them against five of the leading business schools in Spain.

The participants will have to work to achieve the highest return on the initial investment of €1,000, as well as spread the investment between bonds and equities. They will also have the opportunity to learn investment strategies through a social community made up of their competitors.

The school that achieves the best results at the end of the competition will win €10.000 to spend on an activity chosen by the school.

The challenge is organized by EVO Bank, and the University’s School of Economics and Business Administration will compete against five of the country’s top business schools: IE Business School, Deusto Business School, Instituto de Estudios Bursátiles (IEB), ICADE and CUNEF.

The competition will allow the students to learn new money-management methods through technological innovations that focus on the use of mobile phones and collaborative environments that encourage learning through play. All the profits generated, plus the prize money for the winning school, will be used for an education-based purpose chosen by each school.