Articles & Interviews

This report examines the approaches taken in nine key host countries, highlighting common challenges and promising practices.

Jacobs Fellows from all over the world are gathering at Marbach Castle, Lake Constance, Germany, this week. Research Fellows and Business Fellows will be sharing their achievements, talk about their plans as well as their key research questions.

The exhibition “Mobile Worlds” draws inspiration from the collection housed at the Museums für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. The MKG collection is in turn inspired by the great world exhibitions held in London, Paris and Vienna in the 19th-century.

Edves digital Education wins the Transforming Education Prize, worth 50,000 Swiss francs, offered by TRECC. The company from Nigeria provides the most easy and secure web tool platform that encompasses all school management needs.

With the new Public Policy Fellowship, the Jacobs Foundation gives talented individuals the opportunity to drive forward changes in the political arena, the business community and society at large.

Values hold a society together. Every culture develops and lives by its own values, as does every institution. In 2017, the Jacobs Foundation team explored this topic in depth.

The Dart Center is offering a four-day global reporting institute for journalists on early childhood development, trauma, and resilience June 28 – July 1 at Columbia Journalism School in New York City. The application deadline is April 9, 2018.

Since 2015, the Foundation and the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business have selected young people each year to participate in a two-year Entrepreneurship Career Program. Tyler Saltiel shares with us his insights about the pursuit of meaningful work.

Starting kindergarten can be difficult. The Meierhöfli School has launched a new project designed to help children as they make this transition. We take a look at a special kind of kindergarten.