Babilou Family Empowering Children to strengthen scientific research and educational action for young children
After almost ten years of commitment through the Babilou Family Foundation, the group is taking a major step forward by launching its new Endowment Fund, “Babilou Family Empowering Children,” designed to reinforce its work in support of scientific research, sustainable education, and early childhood development across the ten countries in which it operates.
Since its establishment in 2017, the Babilou Family Foundation has worked to make childcare centers true educational environments for young children. It has significantly contributed to developing and disseminating the principles of Sustainable Education, inspired by neuroscience and implemented daily in the group’s nurseries, most notably through the publication of its book Sustainable Education and the organization of the International Neuroscience Congress on Early Childhood Education, held in partnership with UNESCO in 2024.
The launch of the “Babilou Family Empowering Children” Endowment Fund now makes it possible to expand this new way of thinking by giving projects broader operational capacity, focused on international research and educational innovation. This evolution marks the continuity and amplification of the missions carried out by the Babilou Family Foundation, with the ambition of accelerating research funding, equipping professionals, and supporting high-impact projects.
Three major research programs led by a Scientific Education Committee
In 2026, the Endowment Fund will structure its initiatives around three major research programs, developed with international researchers recognized in their fields and deployed in several countries within the Babilou Family network as part of the new Scientific Education Committee announced in November 2025.
Program 1 — Parenting & parenthood
Led by Dr. Angela Low, Professor of Educational Psychology and Human Development (University of Vancouver, Canada), this first program—already being rolled out—aims to analyze the impact of nursery experiences on parents, their educational practices, and family climate. Its goal is to transform nurseries into true resource centers capable of sustainably strengthening parenting skills. After an initial prototype study conducted in 2025 between France and Belgium, most of the research will take place in 2026, with publication expected in 2027. The program will be deployed in seven Babilou Family network countries: Colombia, the United Arab Emirates, the Netherlands, the United States, France, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Program 2 — Inclusion & Observation
This second program, carried out in partnership with Dr. Carmen Dionne, Professor in the
Department of Psychoeducation and Social Work at the University of Québec in Trois
Rivières, Canada, will begin in March 2026 and run for three years. Its objective is to develop
educational practices that promote inclusion among children, based on systematic field
observations. It also aims to strengthen teams’ observation skills—essential for adapting
practices to each child’s needs and encouraging inclusive interactions. The program will be
deployed in two Babilou Family network countries: Singapore and Germany.
Program 3 — Multilingualism & Language Development
The third program, under the scientific direction of Dr. Amalini Simon, Clinical Psychologist
(AP-HP, Paris), will begin in September 2026. Its aim is to design a language development
assessment tool specifically adapted to multilingual contexts. Its goal is to value children’s
home languages and enable them to express themselves in the language spoken at home,
subsequently supporting harmonious language development. Deployed in the United
States, France, and Luxembourg, this program builds on ongoing work with la Maison de
Solenn.
A renewed governance structure to support this goal
The “Babilou Family Empowering Children” Endowment Fund is entrusted to a new
governance body composed of:
- Morgane Weill, Chief Operating Officer, Babilou Family Group
- Benjamin Busse, CEO, Babilou Family Singapore
- Lee Galbraith, CEO, Babilou Family USA
This international governance reflects the ambition of the Fund: promoting a shared
educational vision while grounding it in the realities of each of the group’s ten countries.
“With the Babilou Family Empowering Children Endowment Fund, we are taking a new step
in our longstanding commitment to young children. By strengthening research, equipping
professionals, and collaborating with internationally recognized scientists, we affirm our
conviction: giving ourselves the means, through research, to offer every child the highest
standards of education across our 1,200 Babilou Family centers”, says Morgane Weill, COO
of the Babilou Family Group and President of the Endowment Fund.