Jacobs Foundation

the jacobs foundation seeks to benefit future generations by providing children and young people with better opportunities for development, so that they can become productive and socially responsible members of society. our mission by 2020, we aim to have become the key organization linking excellent research with improving, globally, the development of children and young people under the age of 12. that means focussing our efforts on effective implementation, dialogue and advocacy. as a research-informed organization, we will base our funding decisions on solid evidence and will use comprehensive approaches to secure systemic change. we are focussing on three big themes. our first priority, “science of learning”, is to fund new research into how individual children can learn better. our second priority theme is “early childhood education and care”. this focusses on developing exemplary best practice in the northern hemisphere, in switzerland and germany, with the learning disseminated