Strategic Partners
Our strategic partners support the joint development of the future of rehabilitation with substantial financial contributions, which are provided via donations for professorships, research labs, funding, and fellowship programmes, and/or via sponsoring for contract research, events, and memberships.
Strategic partners are invited to the annual Partnership Council to discuss current and future challenges that guide the strategic direction of the Rehab Initiative.
Hocoma
Hocoma is a global market leader for the development, manufacturing and marketing of robotic and sensor-based devices for functional movement therapy. Hocoma and The Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich have enjoyed a successful research collaboration for more than 15 years. The arm therapy robot manufactured by Hocoma, one of its main products, is a result of this partnership. Hocoma supports the Chair of Rehabilitation Engineering at ETH Zurich.
external pageHocoma Enables Professorship of Rehabilitation Engineering
Schulthess Klinik
Schulthess Klinik is a leading orthopaedic clinic in Europe with a focus on people and how they move with the basic values of top-class medical services, a humane approach and innovation. As part of a comprehensive commitment, Schulthess makes its services available to CYBATHLON 2020 as a medical partner. Schulthess Klinik has been supported by the non-profit Wilhelm Schulthess Foundation since 1935.
People, their mobility and quality of life are at the heart of our day-to-day work. We devote all our energy to providing our patients with the best possible care and ensuring their quick recovery. We are also helping to make treatments better and safer with our long-standing tradition of research. Schulthess cooperates with ETH Zurich, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, and more than 60 other national and international partners.
Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF)
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is one of the world’s leading private, international philanthropic organizations, making grants to nonprofit organizations in the areas of arts and culture, education, health and sports, and social welfare. SNF funds organizations and projects worldwide that aim to achieve a broad, lasting, and positive impact for society at large, and exhibit strong leadership and sound management.
SNF is proud to support the ETH Rehab Initiative by funding a new professorship in the area of barrier-free, inclusive architecture, named the professorship in Architecture and Care, which is one of eight designed to dovetail with one another to provide a comprehensive scholarly underpinning for the Initiative. SNF also supported the CYBATHLON 2020 Global Edition and scientific symposium.
external pageETH Zurich Launches the Rehab Initiative
external pageCYBATHLON Makes Competition a Catalyst for Advancing Assistive Technologies
external pageCollaborating on Technology to Assist People with Physical Disabilities
Suva
Suva, the Swiss National Accident Insurance Fund, is an important part of Switzerland’s social security system. As an independent company under public law, Suva insures people at work and at leisure. Suva does not just help people after an accident or in case of an occupational disease. Its services go beyond compulsory insurance cover after an accident.
As part of its programme to promote research into prevention, rehabilitation, assistance, inclusion and health economics, Suva is to support research projects in the field of accident and occupational health rehabilitation by the ETH Rehab Initiative. It will do this both through funding and collaboration with its Bellikon Rehabilitation Clinic. Suva CEO Felix Weber commented: “ETH’s findings from the advanced research projects and their application, particularly in everyday settings and rehabilitation practice, will benefit Suva’s policyholders and patients. Suva is interested in the translation of research into clinical practice.”
The aim of the broad-based Rehab Initiative, launched in 2019, is for ETH researchers to partner with clinics, foundations, public authorities and other institutions to improve the quality of life and participation of people with physical disabilities.
external pageSuva to support ETH Zurich’s Rehab Initiative
external pageSuva Homepage
Swiss Paraplegic Foundation
The Swiss Paraplegic Foundation (SPF) in Nottwil (Canton Lucerne) is one of the largest solidarity networks in Switzerland. It is the umbrella organisation of the Swiss Paraplegic Group, which comprises an integral network of services for the comprehensive rehabilitation of people with a spinal cord injury. The combination of complete services from the scene of the accident through to medical care and rehabilitation, and lifelong support and advice is unique. The membership fees of the 1.9 million people who belong to the Benefactors’ Association of the SPF create the financial basis for the activity of this solidarity network. Every day, around 2000 employees are committed to fulfilling their challenging tasks. The SPF was founded by Dr. Guido A. Zäch in 1975.