Articles & Interviews

The Jacobs Foundation has awarded the 2013 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize and Best Practice Prize honoring outstanding achievements in research and practice in the field of child and youth development.

The Jacobs Foundation invites you to join the Symposium “Research Frontiers in Human Development: Lifelong Consequences of Childhood Poverty” on December 6, 2013.

On October 29, 2013, experts from the business sector and academia came to Zurich for the ZEIT CONFERENCE on Schools and Careers , where they underscored the importance of vocational education in Switzerland and Germany.

Hans Ambühl has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Jacobs Foundation, effective October 25, 2013. An attorney and currently Secretary General of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (EDK), Ambühl brings with him a wealth of experience with Switzerland’s educational system. He is succeeding Ernst Buschor, who is retiring from the board.

Hans Ambühl has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Jacobs Foundation, effective October 25, 2013. An attorney and currently Secretary General of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education (EDK), Ambühl brings with him a wealth of experience with Switzerland’s educational system. He is succeeding Ernst Buschor, who is retiring from the board.

The 2013 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize goes to Professor Greg J. Duncan of the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. Receiving the 2013 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize is Germany’s ELTERN-AG organization.

The Jacobs Foundation has just announced the recipients of this year’s Klaus J. Jacobs Awards. The awards are being presented for the fifth time.

One hundred years after it was built, Jacobs Haus at Seefeldquai is reopening on September 7, 2013 as the headquarters of the Jacobs Foundation, the Jacobs Holding company and the Johann Jacobs Museum – and as a very special place of learning.

Switzerland’s workers of tomorrow express a high level of satisfaction, and money is by no means their primary concern in choosing a career. This is one of the findings of the Jacobs Foundation’s second representative study of young people in Switzerland. The study looks at young people’s decisions about their training, and focuses particularly on those who opt for vocational training.