The company's purpose is to acquire, manage and sell participations in domestic and foreign companies of all kinds, in particular in the field of education and training. It can finance other companies. The company can establish branches and subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad and participate in other companies in Switzerland and abroad. The company can acquire, hold, manage, encumber, utilize and sell real estate and intellectual property rights in Switzerland and abroad, as well as finance other companies. The company can grant direct or indirect financing to its direct or indirect subsidiaries and to third parties, including its direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, for its own liabilities and those of other companies (including direct or indirect shareholders of the company or companies in which these shareholders are directly or indirectly involved), provide securities of all kinds, including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers or assignments of the company's assets, or provide guarantees, enter into sureties or otherwise secure or guarantee the company's or these other companies' obligations, whether for consideration or not. Furthermore, it can engage in liquidity balancing/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling) with the aforementioned companies or join such a system, including periodic account balancing. All of this can be done by the company without consideration, on preferential terms, without interest and without the company's profit motive, and with the assumption of cluster risks. The company can carry out all commercial, financial and other activities that appear suitable to promote the company's purpose or are related to it.