Blog | 03 September 2025 Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive – but there’s still much we don’t know. First, the field has traditionally focused on average effects [1, 2], often overlooking the rich […] Read more about Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development Read more about Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development
Blog | 14 January 2026 Introducing the LEVANTE core tasks: open, cross-cultural measures for measuring learning and development (ages 5–12) Capturing how children learn and develop is difficult, especially at scale. If you’re tracking growth over time, evaluating an intervention, or testing how a child’s environment shapes development, you need measures that are efficient, reliable, valid, and usable across ages and contexts. In reality, the field is full of compromises: tasks that only work for […] Read more about Introducing the LEVANTE core tasks: open, cross-cultural measures for measuring learning and development (ages 5–12) Read more about Introducing the LEVANTE core tasks: open, cross-cultural measures for measuring learning and development (ages 5–12)
Blog | 05 December 2025 Bringing child development research online at scale Childhood occupies a significant chunk of the human lifespan. This extended period of development is where many uniquely human traits emerge: language, social cognition, and literacy all develop gradually over the course of childhood and all vary across individuals and groups. Since development entails change over time, understanding these traits requires a view that spans […] Read more about Bringing child development research online at scale Read more about Bringing child development research online at scale
Blog | 27 October 2025 Speaking Every Child’s Language: Ensuring authentic translation of LEVANTE tasks across countries A global research framework is only as good as its translation. Authentically translating the text and audio needed for our tasks into different languages remains one of the ongoing challenges in LEVANTE. Although it might seem straightforward—particularly with the rise of AI translation tools—it is in fact far more nuanced than it appears. Every translation […] Read more about Speaking Every Child’s Language: Ensuring authentic translation of LEVANTE tasks across countries Read more about Speaking Every Child’s Language: Ensuring authentic translation of LEVANTE tasks across countries
Blog | 03 September 2025 Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development Ensuring that children around the world can flourish is one of the most important goals of our time. Developmental science has made major strides in understanding how children grow, learn, and thrive – but there’s still much we don’t know. First, the field has traditionally focused on average effects [1, 2], often overlooking the rich […] Read more about Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development Read more about Global Collaboration to Capture Variability in Child Development
News | 27 June 2025 LEVANTE opens second Call for Proposals The Jacobs Foundation has launched the 2025 Call for Proposals for the Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE), offering up to USD 5 million in funding to research learning variability and its impact at the individual, group, and contextual levels. The Jacobs Foundation is excited to announce the 2025 Call for Proposals for its flagship initiative, […] Read more about LEVANTE opens second Call for Proposals Read more about LEVANTE opens second Call for Proposals
News | 19 June 2025 2025 Call for Applications: Support for Internationalisation Planned targeted support for proposals from Global South. LEVANTE is launching a new call for proposals, with the aim of continuing to build a truly inclusive and globally representative network. To support this, the selection panel will give special consideration to proposals that involve data collection or studies focused on underrepresented populations or regions—particularly in […] Read more about 2025 Call for Applications: Support for Internationalisation Read more about 2025 Call for Applications: Support for Internationalisation