Articles & Interviews

The Jacobs Foundation’s TRECC programme and the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI) are entering a partnership to promote innovation and knowledge in education and to increase ICI’s institutional capacity to drive collective learning processes.

There are hundreds of thousands of microfinance institutions operating around the world, yet the sector has fallen short of its fundamental goal of addressing poverty through sustainable business-led growth.

According to the United Nations, over 200 million children worldwide fail to reach their developmental potential in their early years. Some of the reasons behind this include malnutrition and lack of psycho-social care.

Early childhood plays a critical role in children’s later opportunities for development. Investments in this period yield higher educational returns and promote fair opportunities.

Wilfried Griebel is a psychologist at the State Institute of Early Childhood Research in Munich. His research focuses on transitions from preschool to the formal school system.

This years’ Jacobs Foundation Conference is themed “Exploring the Genomic & Environmental Headwaters of Early Brain Development”. It calls together leading international scientists and junior researchers from the field of child and youth development.

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.