Articles & Interviews

One of 19th century’s largest coffee plantations, located in northeastern Brazil, was squarely in Swiss hands. Today’s Helvécia bears almost no traces of those forms of life and community. Watercolor paintings from Pinacoteca and artefacts from the Museu Afro Brasil in São Paulo shed light on a key chapter in the history of Swiss colonialism and global interconnections.

Chalkboard Education, a Ghana-based mobile learning company, receives
EUR 200’000 to further develop its business activities in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, including increasing access to its mobile learning tools for rural and remote populations.

How can contemporary technology serve to find out more about different learning prerequisites of children and how to offer them targeted support? DIPF will pursue these questions in a strategic partnership with the Jacobs Foundation.

Stepping down after serving for eleven years as the director of the Jacobs Center at the University of Zurich, Prof. Marlis Buchmann was honored at a symposium. At that event, Prof. Michael Shanahan, the Center’s new director, thanked Prof. Buchmann for her work and her many achievements.

Since 2012, the Jacobs Foundation has been implementing the Youth Development Project in the Mityana district, central Uganda, in cooperation with Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung. As the project has come to an end, we take a look back and give a brief overview to the significant changes the project has contributed to.

A new report provides an overview of studies of early childhood education and care (ECEC) in Switzerland, compiling a comprehensive list of articles published up to 2016.

Eckhard Klieme is an education researcher and professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, as well as the director of the Educational Quality and Evaluation Department at the German Institute for Educational Research (DIPF). The interview took place at this year’s Jacobs Foundation Conference at Marbach Castle on Lake Constance, Germany.

For the second time the Jacobs Foundation brings together Jacobs Fellows from different sectors such as business, research, and media. They learn about the Jacobs Foundation’s work and meet staff are just some of the program highlights of the Swiss Week. It takes place in Zurich from June 19 to June 23, 2017.

Japan’s Princess Akiko of Mikasa visits the Johann Jacobs Museum at the Jacobs Haus. The visit reflects her appreciation of the Museum’s experimental approach.