Articles & Interviews

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.

In this newsletter, we feature a particular initiative by Nestlé and their project to improve women’s literacy and numeracy levels, as implemented by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI).

Children’s everyday experiences in a daycare center depend largely on the adults who surround them. Policymakers and sponsors determine the center’s structural conditions, but it is teachers who shape day-to-day activities.

Kate Ellis-Davies’ is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. As part of the Applied Developmental Psychology Research Group, she is responsible for managing «The New Parents Study».