The laboratory aims to facilitate the needs for applied research in the fields of Project and Programme Management, Operational Research, Decision Support, Logistics, Investment Appraisal, and Quality Management. The rising need for rational planning, effective scheduling and monitoring of projects and programmes ensures that Project Management should be more accurate in order to produce faster, easier and more target-oriented results. Furthermore, organizations today need to take complex decisions and this can be achieved with the use of modern tools such as lineal programming, game theory, multicriteria analysis, etc.

Furthermore, the laboratory aims to offers services to enterprises in the areas of its purpose and especially in the areas of project management and operational research.