The foundation is a non-profit public utility foundation. The purpose of the foundation is to provide financial and other support to: scientific activities and multidisciplinary research in the field of orthopedic traumatology, combining clinical and fundamental sciences, particularly within the University Hospital of Vaud and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and entities responsible for training orthopedic surgeons and physiotherapists, and hospitals treating locomotor disorders in adults and children, in particular the Locomotor System Department of the University Hospital of Vaud.