Cristina Gallardo reports on the Jacobs Foundation’s revamped funding scheme for research into problems affecting human development during the first 20 years of life.
The Jacobs Foundation is a Swiss charity with a global outlook that focuses on research into children and young people, and is perhaps most famous for having awarded €200 million to the University of Bremen in Germany in 2006—the biggest donation ever made to a European university.
This year the foundation has relaunched its Research Fellowship programme, shifting from project-based to person-based grants. The foundation has allocated about 3 million Swiss francs (€2.8m) to the programme, and the call is open until 15 April.