Articles & Interviews

Recent conflicts in Syria and Iraq have created the largest refugee crisis since World War II. Too often reporting has overlooked the consequences for young children’s brain development, emotional and cognitive growth, academic and economic trajectory.

Learning in 2030, what will it be like? Acatech – German Academy of Science and Engineering and the Jacobs Foundation organize an interdisciplinary #acaLAB workshop to discuss this question with young talents from science, business and media.

This is the motto of an OECD Workshop on policies and initiatives that enhance child well-being held in Paris on January, 16. Key experts and civil society representatives discuss pressing topics during four panels.

Rana Dajani, founder of the We love Reading (WLR) program, has developed an innovative model that provides a practical, cost efficient, sustainable, grassroots approach that involves youth, women and men and the community to increase reading levels.

Agatha Thapa, founder of Seto Gurans (White Rhododendron), offers quality Early Childhood services in Nepal. Seto Gurans also provides parenting education, which is a very important component for the holistic development of both children and youth.

For the first time, sixth-graders at the Schulhaus Waidhalde explored the world of beads at the Johann Jacobs Museum as part of the “L’Afrique des Colliers: Marie-José Crespin” exhibition.

Jacobs Research Fellows and Jacobs Social Entrepreneur Fellows met from 19 to 21 October in Half Moon Bay, California, to find out how each other’s unique expertise could best be of mutual benefit.

There is increasing demand for early childhood programs, and specifically for high-quality child care centers. As a result, many centers are seeking to position themselves favorably and to raise their profiles.

This year’s EFC Research Forum Conference, ‘‘Thinking beyond national borders – Research and funding across boundaries”, hosted by the Volkswagen Stiftung in Hanover on 17-18 October, explored international collaborations within the philanthropic sector.