The research activity of the Institute is currently branching out in the following directions:

• Arts and Culture
• Science and Ethics
• Material and Immaterial Cultural Heritage
• Democracy, Equality, Human Rights
• Civil Society, Biopolitics, Globalization
• Community, Society, Nation in Today's Europe
• Identities, Communication, Alterity, Interculturality
• Sustainability, Well-being, Education
• Teaching and Learning
• Subjective experience, Thinking and Mind
• Assessment and psychological testing
• Behaviour, Intervention and Counselling
• Wellbeing, Development and Adjustment

These directions are not restrictive; they are to be understood in their broad dimension, aiming to address all branches of the humanities and social sciences.