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.
EPFL Center for Neuroprostheses
The Bertarelli family have had long-standing ties with the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), a leading Swiss institution dedicated to education, research and technology transfer at the highest international level. The EPFL regularly develops new and groundbreaking work in science, technology and architecture.
The new Center for Neuroprostheses, launched in 2008, is an international novelty that will start its research in 2009. It will benefit from EPFL’s Brain Mind Institute and from the work being done in nanotechnology, signal processing, robotics and material sciences, to develop innovative approaches to neuroprosthetics and brain-machine interfaces at large.
The Bertarelli Foundation is sponsoring two of the six Chairs of the Center for Neuroprostheses, dedicated more particularly to “Neuroengineering and neuroprosthetics” and “Neurophysiology and coding of cochlear implants”. The first will focus on the technologies that will be at the basis of a variety of neuroprosthetic approaches that are required to optimize implants. The second will focus on the interface between the neurophysiology of auditory processing and the development of novel cochlear implants.
