The purpose of the company is to conduct training and further education in the field of tertiary education (adult education) as well as the development, organization, and marketing of corresponding educational offers and services both domestically and abroad. The company may operate educational institutions, enter into partnerships, organize events, publish publications, and offer consulting and other services in the education sector. It may conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company may establish branches, subsidiaries, and other legal entities both domestically and abroad, or invest in them, and conduct all business that is directly or indirectly related to its purpose. The company may acquire, encumber, dispose of, and manage real estate and other material or immaterial assets. The company may also grant direct or indirect financing (including as liquidity equalization/concentration of net liquidity (cash pooling)) to its direct or indirect subsidiaries as well as to third parties, including their direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries, and provide securities of all kinds for its own liabilities as well as those of other companies (including their direct or indirect subsidiaries as well as third parties, including their direct or indirect shareholders and their direct or indirect subsidiaries), including by way of pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or guarantees of any kind, whether for a fee or not. This may also be done on preferential terms without interest, excluding the profit-seeking nature of the company, and assuming clustering risks.