FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES FROM THE USZ FOUNDATION
The USZ Foundation offers tailored funding options for both private and institutional support. Whether through a one-time donation, project funding, or a long-term partnership, your support enables medical innovations that directly benefit patients.
Support as a Foundation
As a foundation of the University Hospital of Zurich, we understand the goals and visions of charitable foundations. We create a wide range of opportunities to specifically support medical progress and patient-centered research. Together, we build partnerships that have a lasting impact on patients.
Customized Project Partnerships
Every foundation has unique priorities. Together with you, we develop a customized project partnership that best reflects your mission. We identify suitable initiatives at the USZ that align with your funding goals and maximize impact. In this way, your foundation makes an important contribution to solutions for the healthcare of tomorrow and helps to tangibly improve patients’ quality of life.
Strategic Projects
Our strategic projects are shaping the future of medicine. These forward-looking initiatives have the potential to improve patients’ quality of life in the long term and directly contribute to advancing the USZ’s strategy. A panel of high-caliber experts reviews the selections and ensures the highest quality and a strategic focus for the funding.
Thematic Funds
Make a targeted contribution to a medical specialty that is important to you. Whether it’s cancer research, neurology, or cardiovascular medicine—with a thematic fund, your contributions go directly to innovative projects and research initiatives in the area of your choice. We ensure that your funds are used for their intended purpose and provide you with transparent updates on the progress made.
Sub-Foundation
Would you like to achieve your philanthropic goals efficiently and over the long term? A sub-foundation is the ideal solution. Under the umbrella of the USZ Foundation, you can support the medicine of the future and focus entirely on your charitable causes at the University Hospital of Zurich. You define your foundation’s purpose yourself, in line with our overarching mission. We handle the professional administrative management and contribute our many years of expertise.
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Donate as an individual
Help us shape medical progress at the University Hospital of Zurich. Whether through the Future Fund, a strategic project, a personalized named fund or thematic fund, a donation for a special occasion, a memorial donation, or a bequest: With your support, you’ll help advance medical innovation and sustainably improve the quality of life for patients.
Customized Funding Partnership
Everyone has their own personal reasons for getting involved in improving healthcare. Together with you, we’ll develop a funding partnership that reflects your values and priorities. We identify suitable projects and initiatives at the USZ that align with your interests and make an impact where it’s needed most. In this way, you’ll make an important contribution to shaping the healthcare solutions of tomorrow and help improve patients’ quality of life in a sustainable way.
Strategic Projects
Our Strategic Projects are shaping the future of medicine. These forward-looking initiatives have the potential to significantly improve patients’ quality of life and directly contribute to advancing the USZ’s strategy. A high-caliber panel of experts ensures their selection and guarantees the highest quality as well as the strategic allocation of funding. Through your commitment, you support innovations that open up new perspectives for those affected and drive medical progress in a sustainable manner.
Named Funds/Thematic Funds
Make a targeted contribution to a medical specialty that is particularly close to your heart. Whether it’s cancer research, neurology, or cardiovascular medicine, by establishing a named or thematic fund, you’ll support innovative projects and promising research initiatives in your chosen field. Your support is directed specifically toward the advancement of knowledge, therapies, and treatment methods. We ensure that your funds are used for their intended purpose and provide you with transparent updates on the progress made and the impact of your support.
Special Occasion Donation
Whether it’s a milestone birthday, anniversary, wedding, or another special occasion: Use your personal celebration to make a difference together with family, friends, or acquaintances. Instead of gifts, you can ask guests to make donations to the USZ Foundation and thus make a valuable contribution to the medicine of tomorrow. Your special occasion donation supports groundbreaking projects and innovative research at the University Hospital of Zurich. We’d be happy to assist you in planning your fundraising campaign and ensure a smooth and personalized process.
Memorial Donations
When a loved one passes away, there is often a desire to honor their memory in a special way. A memorial donation allows family members to create something lasting in memory of that person while also offering hope to others. A donation to the USZ Foundation supports groundbreaking projects at the USZ. This enables new medical discoveries to be made and innovative therapies to be developed for future patients. In this way, a gesture of remembrance becomes a lasting contribution to the medicine of tomorrow.
Bequests and Inheritances
With a bequest or inheritance, you can make a lasting contribution to the future of medicine that extends beyond your lifetime. Your estate will help support groundbreaking research, innovative treatment approaches, and forward-looking developments in medicine. We would be happy to help you find a solution that aligns with your personal values and wishes. Of course, we treat all discussions confidentially and provide you with transparent information about the impact of your contribution.
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Support as a company
As a company, you have the opportunity to work with the USZ Foundation to advance medical innovations at the University Hospital of Zurich. We offer a wide range of opportunities for engagement that align with your company’s values and philanthropic goals—from supporting groundbreaking projects to providing long-term funding for research and innovation. Together, we can make a lasting impact on patients and society.
Innovation Pool
The Innovation Pool is our launchpad for unconventional ideas and promising projects coming directly from the USZ staff. The program supports initiatives that rapidly bring medical innovations into patient care while making a lasting impact on day-to-day hospital operations. Special emphasis is placed on fostering talented young professionals. A rigorous selection process conducted by an expert panel ensures that only the highest-quality projects receive funding. This way, you can be sure that your contribution goes where it will have the greatest impact.
Health Innovation Hub
The Health Innovation Hub is the University Hospital of Zurich’s incubator. Through this program, innovative projects with demonstrable market potential are identified at the USZ and receive intensive support to accelerate their transformation into viable medical solutions. Funded teams go through a structured development process and gain access to critical expertise and industry knowledge.
A key benefit of this model: If a supported startup successfully establishes itself in the market, the USZ Foundation shares in its financial success. The proceeds are used entirely to fund new medical innovations—and every franc donated multiplies its impact.
Customized Project Partnerships
Would you like to pursue specific philanthropic goals or support a particular cause that aligns with your company’s values? We would be happy to work with you to develop a customized project partnership. Based on your preferences, we’ll identify innovative initiatives and research projects at the USZ that align precisely with your priorities. Your support will thus make a direct and targeted contribution to the development of forward-looking solutions in healthcare.
Strategic Projects
The USZ Foundation’s Strategic Projects are our most ambitious initiatives:
These interdisciplinary projects aim to actively shape the medicine of tomorrow. They have the potential to significantly improve the treatment of diseases and make a positive contribution to patients’ quality of life. They also contribute directly to the USZ’s strategy. A high-caliber panel of experts selects the projects based on strict criteria, thereby ensuring the quality and strategically optimal use of the funding.
Thematic Funds
Would you like to focus on a specific medical specialty that aligns with your company’s values or in which you see a particular social responsibility? With a thematic fund, we offer you the opportunity to direct your philanthropic support precisely and purposefully toward an area of your choice at the USZ. You determine the focus of your funding, and we ensure that your contribution is used in accordance with its intended purpose. In this way, your support has maximum impact and actively shapes the future of medicine.
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How Our Funding Works
DEDICATED PEOPLE LIKE YOU
ENABLE MEDICAL INNOVATIONS AT USZ, THAT DIRECTLY BENEFIT PATIENTS
AND IMMEDIATELY IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFEN OF THOSE AFFECTED.
Special Forms of Financial Support
Whether you're an individual, a company, or a foundation. Your support creates the space for innovation at the University Hospital Zurich.
Thank you very much
for your dedication!
Your support is what makes our work possible. With your donation, you help shape the future of medicine—and give patients at the USZ new hope.
of your donation goes toward our projects
Making a Bigger Impact Together
Would you like to support medical innovations or establish a long-term partnership? We would be happy to discuss individual funding opportunities and suitable projects at the University Hospital of Zurich with you.
Julia Item and Simone Marquart
Management
+41 43 254 55 00
info@usz-foundation.com