Articles & Interviews

The latest cohort of Jacobs Foundation Research Fellows has been announced with researchers representing global excellence joining from countries around the globe—from Chile to Germany. The fellows will be exploring key topics such as mental health and adolescent development, literacy skills among learners from linguistically diverse communities, and how household environments affect children’s memory. Read […]

At the Jacobs Foundation, we are committed to the funding, development, and application of best practices for learners at the school level. The winners of the 2024 Best Practice Prizes were awarded in a ceremony held in Zurich, Switzerland, on Friday, November 15, 2024. The ceremony brought together the ten finalists along with education partners […]

The ten finalists have been announced for the Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes – which acknowledge institutions or individuals who are working to implement evidence-based solutions to improve child development and learning in practice. Ten finalists have been shortlisted and the three winners are due to be announced ahead of the ceremony in November. […]

In our special two-part podcast series ‘Evidence in Practice,’ you can hear from some of our previous Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prize nominees and winners with the co-leads of our Learning Societies Portfolio, Gelgia Fetz Fernandes and Ana Cubillo. They sit down to discuss the real-life challenges of using evidence in practice and hear […]

10 organizations have been selected by MIT Solve and the Jacobs Foundation to address global learning challenges as the 2023 LEAP Project Host winners. In May 2022, the Jacobs Foundation, launched LEAP (Leveraging Evidence for Action to Promote change), a global initiative that brings together researchers and social entrepreneurs to support education organizations to generate evidence and

We warmly welcome and congratulate our six new Social Entrepreneur Coalition members from the University of Pennsylvania: Aqeela Allahyari; Sidra Alvi; Psacoya Guinn; Neha Gupta; Heidi Mitchell; and Natalia Rodriguez.

More than 300 international guests from politics, business, science, and social affairs attended the 2022 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes ceremony on 30 September at the AURA in Zurich. They celebrated the three recipients Luker Foundation, Luminos Fund, and Youth Impact, which were recognized for their education programs in Latin America and Africa. 

MIT Solve and the Jacobs Foundation announce the 2022 cohort of LEAP Fellows and Hosts that are working towards bridging the learning gap for students aged 2-12.

The Luker Foundation, Luminos Fund, and Youth Impact have been named the recipients of the Klaus. J Jacobs Best Practice Prizes 2022, each endowed with CHF 200,000.