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Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes

2022 Best Practice Prize winners

The Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes acknowledge the exceptional commitment from three institutions or individuals who implement innovative solutions for child and youth development and learning in practice, advancing quality education.

Awarded every year until 2018, since then they are awarded every two years, on alternating years. Each of the three Best Practice Prizes laureates are endowed with CHF 200’000 unrestricted funding.

Additional funding for follow-up activities with the Jacobs Foundation is available for the ten prize finalists, to a maximum of CHF 300’000. In line with practice since 2009, the Jacobs Foundation Board of Trustees serves as Jury for the Best Practice Prize.

The next call for applications will open in January 2024.

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Luker Foundation – 2022 Best Practice Prize recipient

Luker Foundation, or Fundación Luker, created in 1994 in the Colombian city of Manizales, is a social innovation laboratory creating solutions that promote development and equity, through public, private and academic alliances.

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Luminos Fund – 2022 Best Practice Prize recipient

The Luminos Fund, headquartered in Boston MA, provides transformative education programs to thousands of out-of-school children each year, helping them to catch up to grade level, reintegrate into local schools, and prepare for lifelong learning.

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Youth Impact – 2022 Best Practice Prize recipient

Based in Gaborone, Botswana, Youth Impact, is a grassroots, youth-led, evidence-based movement. Its aim is to identify, adapt and scale-up health and education programs, by young people for young people.

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Dybuster – 2020 Best Practice Prize recipient

The Jacobs Foundation Board recognizes Dybuster for their exceptional efforts to promote the learning abilities of dyslexic and dyscalculic children by providing software solutions based on artificial intelligence and neuroscience, and especially for their response to COVID-19 related challenges.

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PEAS – 2020 Best Practice Prize recipient

The Jacobs Foundation Board recognizes PEAS for their exceptional efforts to drive educational quality through efficient school management and to operate low-cost secondary schools for the most marginalized students in Uganda and Zambia, and especially for their response to COVID-19 related challenges.

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Ubongo – 2020 Best Practice Prize recipient

The Jacobs Foundation Board recognizes Ubongo for their exceptional efforts to provide quality edutainment with localized educational cartoons to children in Africa, and especially for their response to COVID-19 related challenges.

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2017 Best Practice Prize

The 2017 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize was awarded to War Child in the Netherlands for their global efforts to improve the lives of children exposed to war by promoting psychosocial well-being and fostering emotional resilience for their future.

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2016 Best Practice Prize

The 2016 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize was awarded to ICS-SP in Nairobi, Kenya for their unique approach combining agribusiness with skillful parenting in East Africa aimed at improving early childhood development, parenting and agricultural practices in rural areas.

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2015 Best Practice Prize

The Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize 2015 went to Gesamtschule Unterstrass (a private comprehensive school) in Zurich, Switzerland, for an innovative social emotional learning project adding social competencies to the Swiss curriculum.

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2014 Best Practice Prize

The Serenity Harm Reduction Programme Zambia was awarded the 2014 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize for its evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address severe needs of trauma affected children and their families in Zambia.

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2013 Best Practice Prize

For its prevention program to support families that have young children and find themselves in particularly difficult circumstances the ELTERN-AG received the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize 2013.

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2012 Best Practice Prize

For its nationwide social work, helping young runaways and street children in Germany, the Off Road Kids Foundation received the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize 2012.

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2011 Best Practice Prize

For the development of the concept of the Ideenbüro, helping schoolchildren to take on responsibility, to learn to cooperate and to regard life’s problems as challenges, Christiane Daepp is awarded the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize 2011.

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2010 Best Practice Prize

Opstapje e.V. and a:primo have taken an innovative support model for children and families and successfully adapted it to local conditions in Germany and Switzerland. For this they jointly received the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize 2010.

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2009 Best Practice Prize

Father Johann Casutt († 2012) successfully adapted the Swiss model of vocational training for young people to suit the circumstances of Indonesia. For this he was awarded the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize 2009.