The phrase "acted as a foundation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that serves as a basis or support for something else, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "The research conducted in the early 2000s acted as a foundation for the development of new technologies in the field."
Alternatives: "served as a basis" or "functioned as a cornerstone."
They include service as Chairman of the GNAIE Research Committee responsible for the early documents and papers that still act as a foundation of GNAIE policies and principles.
So, using a nimbleness that a grown-up incumbent would envy, she terms her experience something that will merely "act as a foundation".
An integrated energy exploitation approach for ecological coal mining was then designed to deal with current environmental and energy returns on investment problems, to improve performance, and to act as a foundation for future UCG technological developments.
Rather, his skills as a multi-platform front-end developer, he believes, can be used to facilitate a more civil public discourse -- a belief that acts as a foundation for his academic work.
We divide the discussion into two main types: product platforms designed by individual companies or assemblers of closed supply chains to develop new products or services on the basis of common and reusable components and architectures, and industry platforms which act as a foundation for an ecosystem of firms to develop a set of interrelated products and services.
Members of each of eight sessions (the clinic and phenotype, the diagnostic laboratory, the research laboratory, curation and collection, informatics, relevance to the emerging world, integration and federation and funding and sustainability) developed a number of recommendations that were then organized into a total of 96 recommendations to act as a foundation for future work worldwide.
The study confirms that a child's ability to approximate numbers seems to act as a foundation for developing math skills later in life.
Uber ratings, reviews, even seller ratings from LatentView client eBay -- all of these provided some form of verification that acts as a foundation for e-commerce.
