Articles & Interviews

Asafeer Education Technologies wins the Transforming Education Prize, worth 50,000 Swiss francs, offered by TRECC. The company from Dubai provides schools with online digital resources for reading focused on enhancing literacy.

The Jacobs Research Fellows gather these days in Austin to present their work and interact with their peers, thereby critically discussing frontiers in research on child and youth development and exploring possibilities of collaboration.

The canton of Ticino will be devoting a great deal of attention to the topic of early childhood in the coming months. This will include a traveling exhibition and related regional activities, which are sponsored in part by the Jacobs Foundation.

Results of the research project “Early Childhood Education and Care Quality in the Socio-Economic Panel” will be presented at an international conference on 23-24 March in Berlin, Germany.

“Early Childhood Experience and the Developing Brain” is the title of a four-day reporting institute for international journalists hosted by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma at Columbia University’s Journalism School in New York. From March 9 to 12, 45 journalists from 28 countries attend the reporting institute, which the Jacobs Foundation has helped funding.

Policy recommendations derived from the Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years were recently published. The Transatlantic Forum on Inclusive Early Years was created by the King Baudouin Foundation, the Jacobs Foundation and twelve other partner foundations from Europe and the United States to bring together leading scientists practitioners, civil society members, business leaders and political decision-makers from Europe and North America.

The definition of success is when cities recognize the importance of early childhood education and make it a regular part of their programs. This is precisely what has happened with primano, the early childhood education program in the city of Bern. Ten years ago, the Jacobs Foundation played a major role in initiating this program, and it has provided substantial support throughout the development phase.

What do the smell of coffee and an educational landscape have in common? Both can promote successful cooperation! Mindful of that fact, Schwabgut School holds a regular event known as a “parents’ café.”

Professor Michael J. Shanahan, the new Director of the Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development at the University of Zurich, talks about the differences between the Swiss and the US system and his plans for the Center in the years to come.