Articles & Interviews

What if there was an easy way to foster beneficial interactions between infants and their caregivers? The book series Bunny to Bunny produced by fellows of the Learning Science Exchange Fellowship features rhymes and poems to help with bonding.

In the current extraordinary times, our kids’ health has even higher priority. Elizabeth Bonawitz, Jacobs Research Fellow, tells us how an understanding of germs might help. But also, that it is time for parents to relish children’s joyful exploration.

A new PhD program is supporting young researchers in Côte d’Ivoire to advance their knowledge on early childhood development. Learn more about research interests of the six fellows and their united goal of enhancing lives of children and youth.

Ever since the Jacobs Foundation was founded, we have embraced change as we have sought to fulfil our mission of promoting the healthy development of children and youth. Find out more about the importance of reliability and continuity in our Annual Report 2019.

A strong coalition of the Ivorian government, companies of the cocoa and chocolate industry and philanthropic partners aims to jointly tackle root causes of child labor in Côte d’Ivoire.

Programa Valentina wins the Transforming Education Prize 2020, worth 50,000 Swiss francs, offered by TRECC. Valentina Program reduces youth unemployment and underemployment in Guatemala with training, certification and placement programs.

To promote positive change in education in Switzerland, the initiative “Educreators – Shapers of the Future” was launched on March 30, 2020. The goal is to support emerging good practices in education.

A remarkable expansion of the new Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development in its first 1,000 days enabled excellent interdisciplinary research on improving the lives of young people.

The Youth Development Project (YDP) shows remarkable results and has changed the lives of young farmers in Central Uganda.