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Social corporate responsibility is an important part of our mission. To contribute to the health of our planet, we continually review and improve our efforts to reduce the burden on our environment. It is our wish that we build our scientific and business decisions on actions geared towards sustainable development, including social, environmental and economical issues.
SOCIAL
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Employment
Debiopharm Group™ is an equal opportunity employer and recruitment is based on competence. Our collaborators represent a wide cross-section of talents, experiences and backgrounds. Throughout the group we have over 18 different nationalities with 58% of women and 42% of men. We are committed to fighting gender, race, religion, and sexual discrimination and abide by the human rights principles, as well as national laws regarding employment.
Our collaborators are offered fair remuneration, adequate social coverage, flexible working hours and human employment conditions.
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Health & Security
Risk prevention and the health of our employees are important to us. Procedures, adequate equipment and specific measures to protect them have been implemented and adapted to each professional specificity and environment.
All our sites are equipped with defibrillators in the event of heart failure and some employees have been trained to use this equipment.
ENVIRONMENT
In our efforts to preserve the environment, our buildings and manufacturing facilities are built according to ecological and security standards. At our Lausanne site we don’t revert to air-conditioning. Instead, the building is equipped with gas heating and sophisticated temperature control systems, which function on a balance between warm and cold air. Without fuel consumption, we have reduced costs as well as pollution. Our buildings are also smoke free.
ECONOMY
Debiopharm contributes to innovation and economic development on local and international levels, through:
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Awards
Debiopharm Group Awards that are aimed at recognising, encouraging and promoting scientific excellence both locally and internationally.
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Sponsorships
Genilem: via sponsorships, we offer innovative young companies in Western Switzerland our guidance, expertise, training, and contacts.
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Investments
Polytech Ventures: a seed fund offering early stage investments in technology companies in Western Switzerland, in all technology sectors excluding therapeutic drug development.
PARTNERSHIP
 Debiopharm Group™ is proud of being associated with Sarah Marquis' expedition eXplorAsia, a 20'000 km journey on foot, from Siberia to Australia to start in June 2010. Pharmaceutical development is also about overcoming failures to reach a goal: developing innovative and effective therapeutics. Research is a little like Sarah Marquis’ life, it is about setting an extremely high goal, and “walking the walk” to reach it, step by step, never getting discouraged, never giving up. Sarah Marquis is a role model for Debiopharm Group™’s teams.
Sarah Marquis writes about her next challenge:
- Dreaming of Asia – eXplorAsia 2010-2012
One day I dreamt of Asia. I dreamt of its plains that end where the eyes can no longer discern the line between earth and sky.
August 14th 2008, the layout of my future journey appeared very clearly to me; a beautiful line that links North and South. Since that day, my journey has become so obvious to me and has been named “eXplorAsia 2010-2012”.
- Siberia – Mongolia – China – Laos – Thailand – Borneo – Australia
Alone with the elements, my only companion will be the rythm of my own footsteps. The strength of my legs and the quickness of my feet will carry me through this incredible 20’000 km long epic. I have always found a second wind at the end of my personal limits. And so once again, I will set out alone on foot to reunite with a little tree I met a few years back. It grows at this specific location: GPS : S32°23.002 E124°36.972. It’s where the running wind never stops; where the earth meets the ocean… in Southern Australia. More than a journey it’s a philosophy of movement...
HUMANITARIAN ACTIONS
Debiopharm Group™ is devoted to giving back to community by promoting health and education.
 "Friendship and brotherhood have no price"
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“Kantuta Association”, Sucre, Bolivia
“Kantuta Association”, named after Bolivia's national flower, was founded in 2002 by an employee of Debiopharm Group™ .
The association provides basic care and schooling to deprived children of the streets of Sucre in Bolivia. Giving them an education and building their self-esteem helps them grow into independent and responsible adults and prepares them for the professional world.
Debiopharm Group™ offers an on-going financial support to the "Kantuta Association” which has contributed to the building of new facilities that can care for 65 children between the ages of 6 and 16. Our support has enabled the construction and staffing of a bakery that provides for the centre as well as other bakeries in Sucre; the construction of equipment for four workshops (mechanics, sewing, information technologies, and other activities); a vegetable garden to feed the children of the centre with the possibility of selling any excess production at the local market; and finally handmade crafts (cards, nativity crèches).
In addition to financial support, Debiopharm Group™ and its employees also donate clothes, toys, games, bicycles, computers and other useful items to “Kantuta Association”.
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"Les Pinceaux Magiques”, Lausanne and Sion, Switzerland
"Les pinceaux magiques" (magic paintbrushes) was founded in 1997 by Thérèse Pralong and supported by doctors Maja Nenadov Beck from the CHUV hospital in Lausanne and Henri Küchler from the Sion hospital.
The philosophy behind "Les pinceaux magiques" is to share memorable colourful moments with young patients via silk painting. This activity requires little effort as the colours mix easily on silk, like magic. Different techniques are available to ensure that even the smallest children can create colourful items like scarves, ties, hats.
Thérèse Pralong and her collegues visit patients at the CHUV and Sion hospitals, as well as at their homes to share many happy moments with them.
Debiopharm Group™ supports “Les Pinceaux Magiques” with money raised during various company events.
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