Founded in 2000, ATLAS is a non-profit organization providing services to universities around the world. ATLAS provides the following critical services:

1. Transdisciplinary education and research,

2. Support social, environmental, economical and ethical sustainable development throughout the world,

3. To promote global information exchange through innovative publishing, and

4. To promote open laboratory for the global mind: a place where great minds gather to collaborate and facilitate transformations in solving complex global problems while creating a place where eminent researchers gather to develop new transdisciplinary approaches.