Articles & Interviews

Stress, pressure to perform, overtaxing – for roughly half of Swiss young people (46 percent) this is their everyday life. This is the conclusion reached by the fourth wave of the Juvenir survey, the Jacobs Foundation’s representative study of Swiss youth. According to the study, stress comes from schools, universities and training programs rather than from young people’s private lives, and girls are particularly affected.

Stress, pressure to perform, overtaxing – for roughly half of Swiss young people (46 percent) this is their everyday life. This is the conclusion reached by the fourth wave of the Juvenir survey, the Jacobs Foundation’s representative study of Swiss youth.

The Jacobs Foundation and the Financial Sector Deeping Trust Kenya (FSD) are pleased to publish the “Getting an education in rural Kenya” paper.
The Jacobs Foundation commissioned this report to better understand the unique challenges that smallholder farming households face with respect to financing their children’s education.

This new Fellowship brings five U.S. or UK science or health policy journalists to Zurich, Switzerland, from December 1 – 5, 2015. The purpose of the Fellowship is to advance public understanding of the work and research of the 2015 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize recipient, who is a leading international scholar in the field of youth development.

The Jacobs Science Writer Fellowship is a new program for UK and US science and health policy writers focusing on child and youth development.
Fellowships are awarded to five highly talented and innovative journalists.

The Jacobs Foundation has awarded the first set of grants under their Program on Better Evidence for Children and Youth, which is run in partnership with the Campbell Collaboration.

William Egbe has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Jacobs Foundation, a leading international foundation in the field of child and youth development. Egbe is an engineer with MBA and more than 20 years of experience directing operations, marketing and finance for American companies on four continents, and he is currently Group Director Strategic Planning and Sustainability of Coca-Cola Eurasia & Africa Group. He is succeeding Auma Obama, who has left the Board as of April 1, 2015.

More than 50,000 children aged 8 to 12 in 15 countries were asked about their experiences and views about their lives. Research of this kind is rare and this is the most wide-ranging and diverse study ever conducted internationally on children’s lives from their own perspectives. The first report from the Children’s Worlds study, published today, shows important results that can be used to improve children’s lives around the world. The Jacobs Foundation has funded this ongoing international project over the past three years with a total amount of EUR 850,000.

William Egbe has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Jacobs Foundation.