Articles & Interviews

At the United Nations Global Refugee Forum this week in Geneva, Switzerland, the Jacobs Foundation pledged to support Colombia’s efforts to increase quality education for refugee and host community children. This will be accomplished through our support for Colombia Evidencia Potencial en Educacion, a multistakeholder initiative that aims to strengthen evidence in education policy and […]

Jacobs Foundation launches new research consortium to advance equity in Swiss primary schools by maximizing the opportunities in the digitalization of education The Jacobs Foundation has launched a new research consortium that will focus on digital learning environments and cross-curricular competencies in Swiss primary schools. The ongoing transformation of educational systems, accelerated by the pandemic,

On 23 May in Bogotá, our Co-CEO Fabio Segura signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Education in Colombia and Fundación Empresarios por la Educación. Signatories to the MoU commit to improving children’s holistic learning outcomes in Colombia through collaborating with different actors in the education sector.

The Government of Côte d’Ivoire, 16 leading cocoa and chocolate companies, and two foundations have come together to tackle a root cause of child labour through improving access to quality education.

The Jacobs Foundation program Transforming Education in Cocoa Communities (TRECC) published a report today, documenting work over the last five years to improve the living conditions of farmers and their children in Côte d’Ivoire.

Irina Hotz is the Co-Lead of the Jacobs Foundation Learning Societies portfolio. Irina shares with us what a learning society is and how she is working to connect evidence to action to systems for global impact.

Ross Hall, our Co-Lead of Learning Societies, shares some interesting thoughts on weaving trustful relationships as the bedrock of thriving learning ecosystems.