scientific analysis, diagnostics and prognostication of social, economic, ecological, ethnic and other problems of the Eastern Ukraine and modern Ukrainian society as a whole;

sociological and socio-cultural expertise of manage-ment decisions, political, economic, social programs of regional and municipal management as well as management at the level of a particular firm;

training skilled experts who can work as socio-political and economic managers in the society, in regions, at enterprises and institutions;

political marketing, consulting, organizational and informational support of election campaigns;

analysis of Mass Media’s market and advertising service;

studying social mechanisms of development of education, science and culture;

analysis of consumer’s attitude towards food and goods market;

informational support of financial, economic and investment activity;

expertise and correction of social tension’s level at the enterprises with different forms of property, management сonsulting.

The Role of Ethnic Groups in Design of New Europe (research was conducted in cooperation with the Institute of International Sociology, Giros, Italy, 1992)

Consumption Market in Ukraine: Present Condition and Tendencies of Development (1995-1999)

The Study of Information Room in Kharkiv (monitoring of Mass Media, 1995 - 1999)

Social Impact of Restructuring Privatised Enterprises in Ukraine (1996-1998, in collaboration with Program EU-Tacis and MORI (GB);

Coal Mines Pilot Project. Social Impact and Monitoring (1997, in collaboration with World Bank);

International Summer Schools of Young Scholars and Lecturers of Social Sciences in 1997 and 1998 (in collaboration with Sociology Faculty of Kharkiv State University with financial support of International Re-naissance Foundation and Open Society Institute (Budapest, Hungary));

Forming the Adaptation Mechanisms of Elderly in the Condition of Contemporary Life (1999, grant of International Renaissance Foundation);

Optimization of the Mechanisms of Labor Market Functioning in Contemporary Ukraine (1999, grant of International Renaissance Foundation);

International Workshop "Peculiarities of Electoral Behavior of Population in Post-Communist Countries of Eastern Europe" (1999, in collaboration with Friedrich Ebert Foundation and Berlin Scientific Center for Social Research (FRG)).

International research project "Socio-Economic and Political Mechanisms of Population Migration in the Republics of the Former Soviet Union" (1999-2000, grant of RSS (Soros Foundation)

City program "Dialogue": Insure rights of children and teenagers for freedom of smoking" (1999-2000, grant of Kharkov Tabacco Factory)

International research project "Living Conditions, Life Styles and Health" (2000-2003, grant of Copernicus

Evaluation of Summer Schools in Ukraine (2000, grant of International Renaissance Foundation);

The Labour Market Audit of the Cities of Kharkiv and Izium (2000, "Know How Fund" of Government of Great Britain).