Social Responsibility

For Roche, supporting scientific, social, humanitarian and cultural projects – in Switzerland and abroad – is an integral part of its role as a corporate citizen:

Roche founded – and continues to fund – the Museum Tinguely as a gift to the city of Basel. Roche’n’Jazz concerts are held at the museum every month, in partnership with the Basel bird’s eye jazz club. The company thus contributes significantly to the city’s rich cultural life.

Roche and Canton Zug are engaged in a joint reed protection project in Buonas: reed beds have been planted on the Buonas peninsula on the shore of Lake Zug. The reeds native to this wetland area are a valuable component of the ecosystem, and the reed beds can now be further expanded. Roche has set itself the goal of honouring and preserving Buonas’ cultural and scenic heritage, and it is therefore pleased to be able to support the Canton Zug Reed Protection Working Group.

Roche makes a substantial contribution to the promotion of scientific research, e.g. through the global Roche Postdoc Fellowship programme, by supporting the “Schweizer Jugend forscht”, or by contributing videos and content to the website of SimplyScience.

Example of a SimplyScience video contributed by Roche on the topic:

'How can Influenza be treated'