The EFFD pursues the following objectives: to encourage mutual aid by engaging individual responsibility, to develop a sense of solidarity among its members, to give them the opportunity to practice this solidarity in a spirit of responsibility towards each other, to coordinate different family mutual aid activities, to develop partnerships with other private and/or public institutions, to organize targeted one-off actions, to ensure consistency in associative objectives while respecting ethical standards and current legislation, to provide its members with information and documentation, research funding and subsidies, drafting of minutes and statistical studies, advice on insurance management, advice on pension planning, advice on financing needs, basic or advanced courses, continuing education, listening, mediation and conflict management, advertising, prospecting and media relations, IT support, organizing home care, providing light therapy care services, care based on the Tomatis method, care services according to the Kneipp method as well as care based on Art Therapy, contributing to research in the field of food, culinary, behavioral and economic sciences, contributing to research in the field of education (parenting) through a psycho-educational approach aimed at preventing psycho-social problems and promoting health through the learning of new educational practices, providing education, teaching, continuing education, coaching, professional retraining as well as courses, conferences and other didactic events in the fields of translation, etiquette, cooking, child education, general attitude, the art of receiving and being received, the art of dressing, household management, family management as well as accompaniment of elderly people; in parallel to these activities, exclusive execution for its own account of investment strategies, electronic stock exchange transactions on structured products and other leveraged strategies, activity financed by its own funds and also by foreign funds, leasing of securities excluding all transactions for third parties.