The institute is mainly focused on history in the period from the early modern period to the Second World War. It conducts basic research in the field of Czech, Czechoslovak and general history and is part of a network of domestic and foreign scientific, research and higher education institutions.

Our aim is to become a national technology platform in the field of biotechnology and its applications, to identify and defend interests in this field, to promote them at European level, to link research and industry and to carry out applied scientific research and innovation activities.

We deal with scientific research on vegetation at the level of organisms, populations, communities or ecosystems. We focus on taxonomy, algology, ecology and physiology of cyanobacteria and algae. We have specialized collections for scientific purposes and an analytical laboratory or scientific library.

We are engaged in research in the fields of physiology, biochemistry, genetic microorganisms, molecular microbiology and so on. We also study microbial products and their formation.