Articles & Interviews

This was the motto of the Primokiz program’s final conference, which was held in June at the Kongresshaus in Zurich. At the invitation of the Jacobs Foundation, approximately 100 representatives of the education, social affairs, healthcare and policy sectors came together to look back on the success of Primokiz and launch its successor: Primokiz2.

In fall 2015 the first-ever Jacobs Fellows started their Entrepreneurship Career Program at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Nancy Cao is one of the Jacobs Fellows. She reflects on the differences between depth and breadth of impact and which one is more important to achieve for the different organzisations she has worked with.

Just how important is sleep during the teenage years? It is well-known that newborns and toddlers need a lot of sleep to get through the day. Emerging research from our lab shows that teens are also vulnerable to the effects of poor sleep, both in their behavior and in brain development and functioning.

Vigorous rough and tumble play with their father is great fun for most kids. Research has now found out that it is not only fun, but helps children learn to regulate their emotions.

The Jacobs Foundation together with ReadyNation and four other European foundations host the first Forum for Business Leaders from several European countries at the end of October 2016 to discuss ways the private sector can support early childhood education and care (ECEC) for the benefit of the current and future workforce.

As the Jacobs Foundation’s successful program on labor market youth inclusion in Latin America comes to an end, we seek ways to transfer the gained knowledge from one continent to another and exchange lessons learned with our partners.

The Transforming Education Prize of 50,000 USD will be awarded to the most promising start-up with solutions to improve education in primary schools in low resource environments.

It pays to promote early childhood development and education and to encourage play-based exploration. This is the conclusion reached by the ZEPPELIN project, which is funded by the Jacobs Foundation. ZEPPELIN stands for Zürcher Equity Präventionsprojekt Elternbeteiligung und Integration, a Zurich-based research and prevention project that promotes parent participation and integration.

The Jacobs Foundation spoke to Dr. Eric A. Hanushek. He is a leader in the development of economic analysis of educational issues. The interview took place during this year’s Jacobs Foundation Conference at Marbach Castle on Lake Constance, Germany.