The “Constantin Brăiloiu” Institute of Ethnography and Folklore is a multidisciplinary research structure, with a socio-human orientation. Its main task is to develop fundamental and advanced studies on the phenomenon of traditional and contemporary popular culture, rural and urban, in the fields of folklore (literary folklore), ethnomusicology, ethnography, ethnochoreology and multimedia archives, unconventional, folklore.

The Institute is conducting research activities in the areas of philosophy and psychology.

The Institute is conducting research activities in the area of philology.

The Institute is conducting complex geophysical research in geodynamically active areas, with a special emphasis on the Vrancea seismogenic area

The Institute of Geography, located in Bucharest, with two branches (in Cluj-Napoca and Iaşi), is the main institution of fundamental and applied geographical research in Romania. It carries out integrated research in Geomorphology, Hydrology, Biogeography, Climatology, GIS Systems, Human Geography and Environmental Geography focusing on investigating the relationships between the components of the physical and biotic environment (relief, water, soil, vegetation and fauna) and of the social and economic milieu, as well as their spatial distribution in connection with global environmental change.