Articles & Interviews

The Board of Trustees of the Jacobs Foundation welcomes two new members. We also thank our longest serving member.

Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow Tobias Hauser has developed a fun app for kids based on current neuroscience, to help understand why mental health problems often arise during adolescence.

We pledge half a billion Swiss francs to help build more resilient education systems on a global scale in the context of our Strategy 2030.

The Jacobs Foundation pledges half a billion Swiss francs to help build more resilient education systems on a global scale in the context of our Strategy 2030.

Dybuster, PEAS and Ubongo receive the prestigious 2020 Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes. The three Prizes are endowed with 1.5 million Swiss franc.

The Klaus J. Jacobs Best Practice Prizes recognize the outstanding commitment and contribution of organizations advancing child and youth development around the world. This year we are honored to present not one but three Prizes.

Dybuster was born out of a project you completed for your Master’s degree in Computer Science at the ETH Zürich. How does a computer scientist become interested in learning difficulties in children? I was searching for a project to do for my Master’s Degree in 2005 and I approached Markus Gross, who was my Professor […]

You have lived all over the world and you now are in Tanzania. Where did the idea for Ubongo come from and how did you get started? When I studied at University in Dar es Salaam, I became really interested in education. It became clear to me that even the brightest students in the country […]

CEO Laura Brown talked to us about PEAS, secondary education in Africa and adapting to COVID lockdowns. PEAS is a success story within a larger story of marginalized communities. How do you balance the feeling of success against the backdrop of continuing adversity?  When PEAS was founded 12 years ago, 1 in 3 children went […]