Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development
The Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development (“Jacobs Center” for short) is a scientific research center at the University of Zurich that focuses on child and youth research. The center is a joint venture between the University of Zurich and the Jacobs Foundation .
organization
The Jacobs Center was founded in 2003 by the sociologist Marlis Buchmann and has since hosted her COCON (Competence and Context) study on youth in Switzerland. In 2015 it was redesigned and greatly enlarged with an interdisciplinary orientation.
The Jacobs Center conducts interdisciplinary research into how social, psychological, economic, and biological or neurobiological factors interact with one another during the development of children and adolescents. The knowledge gained in this way should be used to promote this development, to avoid or overcome development obstacles.
The main research areas of the Jacobs Center include the areas of social genomics , risk and resilience , developmental neuroscience and economics of education .
In addition, several large-scale longitudinal studies of young Swiss people are carried out at the Jacobs Center: z-proso and COCON .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Investing in youth research. NZZ, January 14, 2014, accessed on July 10, 2020 .