The Distance Learning Program of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV Online), sponsored by Icatu Seguros, has been offering free personal finance courses since 2011. The first three of them - How to organize family budget, How to Plan for Retirement and How to make investments - have totaled 850,000 visits, 520,000 enrolments and 270,000 issued certificates, and became popular with a diversified audience, as indicated by Valor Econômico newspaper.This year, these courses represented 23% of all enrollments for the free subjects offered by FGV Online. 59% of the students are women, over 40% are people between 25 and 35 years old, one third of the students live in the state of São Paulo, 46% hold an undergraduate degree, a third holds a Business Administration degree and 77% earn up to BRL 2,000 a month, states the professor of São Paulo School of Business (FGV/EAESP), Fabio Gallo, who prepared the courses.According to him, the objective is to discuss the topic in various forums, in a moment that the country is experiencing a more disciplined inflation and lower interest rates. The professor also mentions different research articles that show the population's lack of financial knowledge. The idea is to make people more aware of the subject, he says.FGV Online recently released two more free online courses on this matter: the advanced version of How to make investments and How to spend consciously.Please click here and check out the full portfolio (in Portuguese).