Legal information

The association

Legal name

Helvetia Institute for Science and Innovation

Legal form

Association (Verein / association) under Articles 60 ff. of the Swiss Civil Code

Registered seat

Marly, Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland

Registered address

Route de l’Ancienne-Papeterie 106
1723 Marly
Switzerland

Commercial register

CHE-207.046.582

Authorised signatory

Pedro Faustino, President of the Executive Committee

Purpose

Non-profit scientific research and the advancement of science and innovation in the public interest

Contact

info@helvetiascience.org

Charitable status

The institute operates on a non-profit basis. Its assets and any surplus are devoted exclusively to its statutory purpose, and no part of them may be distributed to members or to the members of the Executive Committee.

Governance

The general meeting of members is the supreme governing body of the association: it adopts and amends the articles of association, elects the Executive Committee and the auditors, and reviews and approves the annual report and annual accounts. Between general meetings the association is administered by an Executive Committee comprising a President, a Treasurer and a Secretary, elected by the general meeting and serving on a voluntary, unpaid basis. The Executive Committee is accountable for the association’s finances and legal obligations.

Executive direction is held by the Scientific Director, responsible for the research programme, and the Executive Director, responsible for operations, funding and partnerships. Both report to the Executive Committee. The Executive Director post is currently vacant and carried ad interim by the Scientific Director. See People & governance for current office holders.

The articles of association are available to members and, on request, to prospective funders and partners.

Privacy

This website is a static site. It sets no cookies, runs no analytics or tracking scripts, and builds no profile of its visitors. We do not sell, share or transfer visitor data, because we do not collect it.

Web fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, which means your browser makes a request to fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com; that request carries your IP address and user agent, as any web request does. Our hosting provider may keep standard server logs for security and operational purposes.

If you write to us, we process your message and contact details only to respond to your enquiry and, where relevant, to maintain the resulting relationship. We keep that correspondence no longer than necessary. You may ask us at any time what we hold about you, and ask us to correct or delete it, by writing to info@helvetiascience.org.

This statement is made under the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (FADP). The controller is the association identified above.

Content and liability

We take care that the information on this site is accurate and current, but we give no warranty as to its completeness or accuracy and accept no liability for decisions taken on the basis of it. Scientific content describing ongoing research reflects work in progress.

This site links to external websites, including those of hosted research groups and partner organisations. We have no control over their content and accept no responsibility for it.

The institute’s name, emblem and the content of this site are protected. They may not be reproduced or used in a way that suggests affiliation or endorsement without our written permission. Please contact us for press and media use.

Applicable law

These terms and any dispute arising from the use of this website are governed by Swiss law. The place of jurisdiction is the Canton of Fribourg, Switzerland.

Publisher of this website: Helvetia Institute for Science and Innovation, Route de l’Ancienne-Papeterie 106, 1723 Marly, Switzerland.