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Early childhood programs are one way to create such an environment and lead to superior social, emotional and cognitive skills, better results on school tests, higher levels of education and, when children reach adulthood, a more successful job history.<\/p>\n<p>In the belief that all children should be allowed to reach their full potential, the Jacobs Foundation has spent many years promoting high-quality early childhood education and care (ECEC). One of its initiatives is Primokiz<sup>2<\/sup>, an expanded version of the Switzerland-wide\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jacobsfoundation.org\/de\/project\/primokiz\/\">Primokiz<\/a> program.<\/p>\n<p>At as many as 80 sites, Primokiz<sup>2<\/sup> is creating networks in the education, social services and healthcare sectors and assisting in the development of a comprehensive early childhood policy aimed at putting appropriate structural conditions in place. This will ensure that high-quality programs for young children and families are able to achieve the greatest possible impact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Roger Federer Foundation sponsors the Primokiz<sup>2<\/sup>\u00a0program, which is being implemented by Radix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primokiz<sup>2<\/sup> connects all actors in the education, social, and health sector and supports them to develop a comprehensive policy on early childhood education thereby creating sound structural conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":1077,"template":"","activities_category":[],"post_focus_option":[],"country_option":[215],"class_list":["post-4627","activity","type-activity","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","country_option-switzerland"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>For an Early Childhood Policy (Primokiz2) - 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