The Department is trying to bring together the theoretical and applied interdisciplinary research in IST and their applications in the natural, social and economic sciences.
The Department is involved in a number of national and international educational, research and development projects within the framework of the National Science Fund, National Fund - Structural Policy, TEMPUS, PECO, INCO-Copernicus, 5 FP European programmes.
The main directions of research according to the terminology used in European Commission Funded Programs are: eLearning, eWork & eCommerce, Artificial Intelligence. The work under the projects for research, training & development is in the framework of Centre of Information Society Technologies - CIST.