The association aims to promote the development of all individuals, professions, companies, associations, federations and affiliated organizations, as well as their participation in Switzerland's economic and social policy decisions. The association also promotes the protection and enhancement of the role of these individuals and/or organizations, including in terms of equal opportunities, within the Swiss constitutional, legislative, economic and social system and in the corresponding European areas. The Association is inspired by the model of the Confederation of Professional Associations based in Rome and is configured as an association of companies, professionals and individuals, resident in Switzerland and Europe, who carry out the following activities: a) an officially recognized profession or any other professional activity; b) an entrepreneurial activity of production of goods and/or provision of services, in individual form or through an organized structure; c) an activity of general interest, in the form of voluntary action or free provision of money, goods and services, or mutual aid or production or exchange of goods or services for civic, solidarity and social utility purposes.