Articles & Interviews

Researchers gathered at Marbach Castle for uninterrupted work during the one-week residence program. The open agenda allowed for in-depth discussion, reflection and exploration of the questions at hand.

This year three new fellows were accepted to the Jacobs Foundation’s talent network and will join the Entrepreneurship Career Program at the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley.

Working in the vegetable fields, the chicken den, or in the pigpen, is daily life and part of the lesson plan at the agricultural college La Bastilla in Nicaragua. With such a hands-on approach, backed up with theoretical input the students become true entrepreneurs in farming and help to improve prosperity in the whole region.

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.