Articles & Interviews

The Jacobs Foundation and Jacobs University Bremen are organizing an international challenge to find innovative and radical ideas for future higher education.

Luke Dowdney, founder of Fight for Peace (FFP), has developed a community-based response to the arming and employment of young people by drug trafficking gangs in Brazil.

Nathalia Mesa is the chairperson of aeioTU, a Colombian social enterprise promoting Early Childhood Development (ECD). With aeioTU she has mobilized national, state and city governments.

Selçuk R. S¸irin is professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University. He led the first research team to document the educational and mental health needs of Syrian refugee children in Turkey.

Judy Stuart is the founder and CEO of Future Farmers, a South African foundation attracting and developing a new generation of predominantly black commercial farmers.

Boris Bulayev and his organization Educate! are reforming the secondary education in Africa to equip young people with the skills necessary to break the cycle of poverty.

On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Klaus J. Jacobs Awards, the Jacobs Foundation has awarded ten prizes to social innovators in the field of child and youth development.

New UNESCO Global report shows progress in primary and secondary education. Completion rates in 2013–2017, which can serve as a baseline for the SDG period, were 85% for primary, 73% for lower secondary and 49% for upper secondary education.

The Symposium on 8-9 November 2018 will be used to develop and refine a concept of a “Radical Ideas in Higher Education Challenge” with internationally renowned experts, and kick-off the Challenge to the public and the scientific community.