Articles & Interviews

Together with the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) the Jacobs Foundation launches a new initiative to support researchers active in innovative and exciting fields.

Psychologist Raija-Leena Punamäki from the University of Tampere, Finland focuses on how traumatic experiences—especially those related to family and maternal trauma—influence the parent-infant relationship.

“As a field officer for TRECC, I usually visit intervention zones to monitor the development of education projects in rural areas in Ivory Coast. Last month, my horizons broadened as I led a delegation of the Ivorian Ministry of Education to India.”

The 2017 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize was awarded to War Child in the Netherlands for their global efforts to improve the lives of children exposed to war by promoting psychosocial well-being and fostering emotional resilience for their future.

Paul Bloom studies babies and toddlers and how their social and moral capacities develop. He has made striking discoveries suggesting the existence of an early-emerging “moral sense”.

Impact investing, or the funding of non-profit and for-profit social enterprises, is transforming the philanthropic sector.

The Jacobs Foundation has awarded the 2017 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize and the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize honoring outstanding achievements in research and practice in the field of child and youth development.

A meeting in Ivory Coast sheds light on the need to develop relevant technical and vocational education programs for youth in rural areas.

The Jacobs Foundation is pleased to invite you to the scientific symposium “Research Frontiers in Human Development: From the Moral Intuitions of Babies to the Messy Morality of Adults” on December 1, 2017.