The Foundation is non-profit. The purpose of the Foundation is to support graduate students by awarding scholarships to study at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Scholarships can only be awarded to students who have obtained a degree from one of the following Swiss universities: Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne, Neuchâtel, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) or the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). Candidates must be citizens of Switzerland or Liechtenstein and must be resident in Switzerland.