to provide all kinds of teaching and professional, academic and continuing education. The Company may also organize seminars, conferences and provide any type of advice and services in the field of education. The Company is also active in research and innovation as well as in the field of scientific publishing. The Company may, either on its own account or on behalf of third parties, carry out all financial, commercial, industrial, movable and immovable transactions in Switzerland and abroad, directly or indirectly related to the main purpose; create branches or subsidiaries in Switzerland and abroad; participate in all enterprises having a direct or indirect connection with its purpose; grant loans or any other form of financing to, and provide any kind of security for the direct or indirect benefit of its members, companies of the same group or third parties, in particular in the form of guarantees, pledges or securities on the Company's assets.