The institute is currently conducting joint research into food safety, labour markets, working and social standards, as well as into combating the causes of migration and flight.
The institute focuses on the legal situation before, during, and after humanitarian crises, the way they affect society and institutions, as well as the way nations and organizations respond to them.
The past and the present of social movements constitute the research subject at the institute, which focuses primarily on the labour and union movement in terms of both education and research.