Horizon Group — Annual Report · 2025 12 / 15
Community & Social Impact
Rooted where we operate
Horizon Group invested CHF 4.6 million in community programmes in 2025 — deliberately concentrated rather than scattered. The focus is STEM education around our sites: equipped school laboratories, teacher training, and scholarships run with two technical-university foundations. We contribute skills as much as money: every employee has two paid volunteering days a year, and 2,900 of them were used in 2025, most of them teaching robotics and coding workshops in partner schools.
Local impact in numbers
Community highlights 2025
School lab programme launches
Ten pilot schools near Geneva and Lausanne received fully equipped science labs; by year end, 45 schools had joined the programme.
Open days at three sites
Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich opened their doors on the same weekend — around 8,000 visitors toured the lines, labs and apprentice workshops.
First STEM scholarship cohort
Twenty-five scholarships awarded together with two technical-university foundations — more than half of them to young women.
Group volunteering week
Some 1,100 employees took part, bringing the year’s total to 2,900 volunteering days on paid working time.
Skills, not cheques
The most valuable thing we bring to a classroom is not funding — it is a professional who calibrates machines for a living explaining why mathematics matters. In 2025, 340 employees taught in partner schools, our apprentices ran the robotics league final in Lausanne, and retired engineers from the group mentored 60 scholarship students. The foundation partnerships are deliberately long-term: every agreement runs for at least five years.
The full picture, externally assured
The complete sustainability statement — prepared under CSRD with limited external assurance — is available in the download centre. Our sustainability team answers questions within two business days.
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