The company's purpose is to carry out study, support, research and knowledge transfer activities in Switzerland or abroad, particularly in the fields of territorial development, social dynamics and mobility. The purpose includes having a significant positive social and environmental impact through its commercial and operational activities. The company may acquire, hold, manage or sell movable and immovable property, all except for operations prohibited by the LFAIE. The company may also engage in any other activity that has a direct or indirect connection with these purposes; it may notably create branches in Switzerland and abroad, participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad, acquire companies with an identical or similar purpose, or merge with such companies, carry out all operations and conclude all contracts intended to develop and expand its purpose or related thereto directly or indirectly.