The Institute for the Research and Improvement of Social Sciences (IRISS) has an exclusive focus on social sciences. IRISS’s main objectives are to:

1. enhance knowledge through seminars, workshops and active participation in learning programmes;
2. raise public awareness about the social sciences;
3. encourage the advancement of scientific knowledge in the social sciences through scholarly breakthroughs;
4. encourage the development of new tools and theories in the social sciences with a view to widening the real-world applicability of the social sciences;
5. compete for public (mostly EU) Funding in the social sciences area.