ICCV is a leading research institute in the field of quality of life and social policy. Our institute is dedicated to research in two key areas: quality of life and social policy as well as in the major subsequent topics: health, education, employment and working conditions, housing, family, poverty and living standards, public services, social development, social economy. A main focus of research has been transition analysis as well as social change in the long term in Romania. Apart from undertaking fundamental research, ICCV actively contributes to the debate on the current social issues of our time and provides knowledge that can assist in the development of better policies.

The Institute of Economic and Social Research „Gh. Zane ”carries out fundamental and applied research projects, multi and interdisciplinary, to contribute to innovation and knowledge transfer in economic and socio-human sciences.

The “Mihai Drăgănescu” Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (ICIA) was established in 1994 as a center of competence and active dissemination of knowledge in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The main research projects of the institute are in the fields of natural language processing, machine learning and knowledge acquisition, computer-assisted training and integrated information management and geospatial technologies.

The Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Sibiu was established in 1956 in order to promote the history and culture of the Romanians and Germans from Transylvania and to continue and complete the research projects started a century ago. Among the fundamental objectives of the institute are the study of the history and specifics of the Romanian cities in the European context, the deepening of our knowledge about the history and culture of the Romanians and Germans from Transylvania, integrating the Transylvanian characteristics in the history and culture of the European and Romanian space and studying the national and regional particularities of our present-day society.

Research institution par excellence, with a history of almost 60 years, ICSU "Gheorghe Şincai", has as main mission the research of the history of Transylvanian civilization and culture in relation to the specific features of the area, as a space of ethnic and religious interference. It is focused on researching history and philology in the Transilvania area, from the 18th to the 20th centuries.