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The Zurich-based private Jacobs Foundation was established in 1988 by entrepreneur Klaus J. Jacobs. Ever since, the foundation has focused its efforts on Productive Youth Development (PYD), and today it has many decades of experience in the funding of science and specific intervention programs and their implementation in the field of child and youth development. The foundation understands Productive Youth Development to be a concept of child and youth development, which puts special emphasis on the positive development opportunities for children and young people. As far as its methods and approaches are concerned, it is particularly committed to scientific excellence and evidence-based findings. With its investment of EUR 200 million in the Jacobs University Bremen (2006), it set new standards in the area of private funding.