Alinghi Swiss Sailing Grants 2010 Awarded
ALINGHI GRANTS AWARD CHF 150,000 TO SEVEN SWISS SAILING PROJECTS FOR 2010
The Bertarelli Foundation, in collaboration with Swiss Sailing and the UBS Foundation for Social Issues and Education, have created the Alinghi Swiss Sailing Grants to
Opening of new classroom at Henna Pre-School
The Henna Pre-School, in the North East of South Africa, celebrated the opening of a new classroom, supported by the Bertarelli Foundation, on 17 March 2010.
FC Sarina: 50th Anniversary Celebration
In collaboration with many other local entities and friends from Saanenland, the Bertarelli Foundation is proud to have supported the renovation of the soccer ground in Saanen.
About us
The Bertarelli family has been active in philanthropy for a long time. Maria Iris Bertarelli, the wife of Fabio and mother of Ernesto and Dona, opened the way in the 1970s with her contribution to a number of social and charity projects in Italy and Switzerland. Amongst others, she was the president of the Association des Services Bénévoles Vaudoise (ASBV) in the Geneva region for over ten years.
Later on, the family created the Bertarelli Foundation in order to support and promote their own philanthropic projects. Founded in 1998 as a tribute to Fabio after his death, the Foundation was initially dedicated to the healthcare sector in which the family company Serono was operating.
For its first ten years, the Bertarelli Foundation promoted research and discussion amongst clinicians and ethicists of issues concerning reproductive health and the treatment of infertily. Its aim was to achieve a better understanding of couples’ sterility and a better acknowledgement of sterility as a true disease.
Through its participation in studies, treatments and publications, the Foundation contributed significantly to the reduction of multiple pregnancy in the world and thanks to its activity a major improvement has been the implantation of only one embryo in infertility treatments.
Since 1998, the Bertarelli Foundation also financed a number of research programmes focussing on the social aspects of sterility, including a website about sexuality for adolescents. Today all these activities in the field of reproductive health have been taken over by the Fondation FABER in Lausanne.
In 2008 the Bertarelli Foundation was expanded to include all the family’s philanthropic interests in the areas of life sciences, culture, education, sport, environment, and children.
