Articles & Interviews

The Jacobs Foundation is pleased to invite you to the scientific symposium “Research Frontiers in Human Development: From the Moral Intuitions of Babies to the Messy Morality of Adults” on December 1, 2017.

In this newsletter, we feature a particular initiative by Nestlé and their project to improve women’s literacy and numeracy levels, as implemented by the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI).

Children’s everyday experiences in a daycare center depend largely on the adults who surround them. Policymakers and sponsors determine the center’s structural conditions, but it is teachers who shape day-to-day activities.

Kate Ellis-Davies’ is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. As part of the Applied Developmental Psychology Research Group, she is responsible for managing «The New Parents Study».

Over the past few years, the early childhood education and care (ECEC) sector in Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, has undergone substantial expansion.

Today, an unparalleled amount of philanthropic resources is being applied to improve the state of the world. Who are the leaders and innovators of this new philanthropy? What is the impact of this new philanthropy on developing countries?

The Jacobs Foundation announces the recipients of the 2017 Klaus J. Jacobs Awards endowed with 1.2 million Swiss Francs. The Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize goes to Paul Bloom, the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize to War Child, based in the Netherlands.

Truly improving children’s educational outcomes at scale requires unorthodox approaches. One promising, yet largely neglected approach is to systematically leverage the private sector’s agenda.

The first years determine the general thrust of a child’s entire further development. Early childhood education and care (ECEC) aims to support the development and education of all children: inside and outside their families, from birth until they start school. Ready! has created fact sheets that illustrate the status quo in Switzerland and show where there is still work to be done.