Articles & Interviews

As of July 1, 2019, Sandro Giuliani, Managing Director of the Jacobs Foundation and Delegate of the Board of Trustees, will hand over responsibility for the Foundation’s operations to Fabio Segura and Simon Sommer, who will serve as co-CEOs.

We believe that scientific findings should be disseminated to as many people as possible, and that researchers should engage in dialogue with practitioners and decision makers.

Spotlight Switzerland is looking for inspiring kindergarten, primary and secondary school educators who are embracing digital transformation in the classroom by experimenting with new teaching methods and tools, together with their students.

I am not a member of the Twitterati community. I rarely tweet, and when I do, my tweets tend to be sober, not to say sec, as I generally use social media to learn about and share new research in child development and learning.

The Principality of Liechtenstein recently joined the Jacobs Foundation’s Primokiz2 program, which connects actors in the education, social services and healthcare sectors and helps them develop a comprehensive early childhood policy.

More and more communities and cantons are playing an active role in promoting and connecting early childhood programs. Since 2013, the nationwide Primokiz program has provided support for their efforts.

As of April 2019, Nora Maria Raschle, PhD, joined the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at the University of Zurich as an Assistant Professor of Psychology.

I am reminded of that age old saying – If a tree falls in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? If a report goes unread by those who most need to read it, does it make an impact?

Three years into our Medium Term Plan 2016–2020, the Jacobs Foundation team and its partners and fellows continued to promote effective projects and programs to achieve the Foundation’s primary goal: To support children’s learning and development.