The company's purpose is to operate a research institute, a technology agency, and a consulting and training center with a focus on project and network management, vocational training and further education, training, experience and information events, as well as professional, personal, marketing, technology, existence, founding and corporate consulting, research, development and manufacture of technical procedures and devices, including the provision of services, maintenance tasks and expert opinions, particularly in the fields of electronics, optics, precision mechanics, thermodynamics, process engineering, energy and social sciences, medical technology, and information and communication technology. The company also operates foreign non-autonomous branches for operating test facilities in the field of renewable energies, as well as the acquisition, holding, management, and exploitation of its own participations and assets, and project development and real estate trading, rental and management of its own property, explicitly not as a service for third parties, including the trade of goods of all kinds, the trade of rarities and collector's items, including trade over the internet and their import and export. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company can acquire, encumber, sell and manage real estate in Switzerland and abroad. It can also provide financing for its own account or for the account of third parties, as well as guarantees and sureties for subsidiaries and third parties.