Since the beginning of 2024, the Limmat Foundation supports the project “Labedu” (Laboratório de Educação) in Brazil. It seeks to improve educational practices by developing methodologies, projects and products through continuous cycles of research, implementation and evaluation. The programme promotes systemic change in a wide variety context and at different scales, ensuring meaningful learning for children, inside and outside of school.

Labedu stands for transformative power of public education system, championing equal opportunities for all children to reach their learning potential. This goal is reached by equipping them with the tools and knowledge to take informed decisions amidst school complicities, thereby fostering not just rote learning but meaningful understanding and action. Labedu generates evidence from small-scale pilots to large interventions, designing programs that make research- based practices teachable for educators at all levels, and create equitable as well as high-quality learning environments.

This year, Labedu won the Jacobs Foundation’s Best Practice Prize which acknowledges outstanding commitment from institutions or individuals in implementing evidence-based solutions for child learning and education. The Brazilian non-governmental organization is one of the three winning teams which will receive their Best Practice Prize during an award ceremony in Zurich. Ana von Bock, Programs and Partnerships Manager, who is in charge of this project at the Limmat Foundation, visited the project in Brazil in October 2024 and delivered her congratulations: “We are all very proud of their achievement and absolutely happy to support this excellent organization which gives its best every day, to have a positive and sustainable impact on the future of children”.