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Long-term CEO Bernd Ebersold leaves on good terms. Sandro Giuliani, currently Head of the foundation’s intervention programs in Europe, to step up.

The Zurich‐based Jacobs Foundation has awarded the 2012 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize and Best Practice Prize honoring outstanding achievements in research and practice in the field of child and youth development.

The 2012 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize is being awarded to Prof. Dante Cicchetti, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. The Off Road Kids Foundation in Germany will be receiving the 2012 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize.

A new study by the Jacobs Foundation reveals that young people in Switzerland are self‐critical and self‐confident.

The Jacobs Foundation in Zurich and the Swiss Coordination Center for Research in Education (SCCRE) plan to hold a series of conferences and closed‐door meetings in collaboration with the Swiss Leading House on Economics of Education, a joint initiative of the Chair for Business and Personnel Economics at the University of Zurich and the Center for Research in Economics of Education at the University of Berne.

The examination of the effects of financial shocks on the development and well being of children and youth has never before been conducted in a systematic and rigorous way and across different settings.

The Jacobs Foundation’s Board of Trustees has appointed Nathalie Jacobs as new member effective July 1, 2012. Ms. Jacobs is the daughter of the Foundation’s founder, Klaus J. Jacobs. A Swiss journalist, she is employed by Tamedia AG in Zurich.

The daughter of the Foundation’s founder joins the board effective July 1, 2012.

The Jacobs Foundation provides CHF 4 million for the program’s initial phase. The first three cantons have signed cooperation agreements.