The Human-Environmental Systems Research Centre conducts research in six research teams:

• LAND USE AND BIODIVERSITY
• CULTURAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
• SOIL EROSION
• CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN SOILS OF MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS
• SOCIAL PROCESSES AND URBAN RESILIENCE
• FOOD WASTE

The Human-Environmental Systems Research Center has concluded a memorandum of understandingt with the following institutions:

• Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic
• The Caucasus Network for Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions, Tbilisi, Georgia
• Secretariat of the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians
• Faculty of Science KU Leuven, Belgium
• Institute of Nature Conservation of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow
• Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS Paris Lodron University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
• Institute of Biology Bucharest, Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania