The Foundation focuses on three big themes. “Science of Learning”, is to fund new research into how individual children can learn better; "Early Childhood Education and Care” focuses on developing exemplary best practice in the northern hemisphere, in Switzerland and Germany, with the learning disseminated to other European countries; and the third theme looks to the southern hemisphere where we will support improvements in “Rural Livelihoods” in Ivory Coast, whose benefits will be shared with other West African countries.