The Jacobs Foundation works to give every child the evidence-based education they need to thrive.
As a business owned by Jacobs Holding AG, we are proud to be a part of the Jacobs heritage. The sole economic beneficiary of the firm’s investments is the Jacobs Foundation, one of the world’s leading charitable foundations.
Whatever their background, all young people should have access to a high-quality education. Yet all too often, programs and interventions designed to improve a child’s learning and education provide one-size-fits-all instruction and are not rooted in evidence. Founded in 1989, the Jacobs Foundation’s vision is a world in which every child is given the evidence-based learning opportunities they need to thrive.
To move closer to this vision, their Strategy 2030 seeks to improve children’s learning and education by promoting the generation and translation of evidence into policy and practice. They invest globally and locally in a systemic approach that works across the entire education ecosystem to connect evidence to action, and action to systems. In practice, this involves funding research to understand how children learn, promoting the use of evidence in school practice and EdTech, and supporting countries to integrate evidence into education policy and implementation.
Strategy 2030 is underpinned by an ambitious Research Agenda designed to advance scientific understanding of childhood variability – how children vary day-to-day in their skills and behaviours, how they differ from their peers, and how they live and learn in different environments. By building up the science of how children vary over time and contexts, the Foundation can support policymakers and educators in embracing variability and providing evidence-based learning opportunities that serve more children, more often.
