The Education and Socio-Economic Research Institute (ESERI) was activated in February 2022 to support UniSey`s contribution to sustainable societal development in education and socio-economic domains. The constructive societal influence, featuring strongly in UniSey`s agenda, comes through advancement of knowledge and innovation and is based on research as a reliable way of identifying challenges and providing informed solutions.  ESERI, alongside other research institutes at UniSey, serves to enable a research-guided beneficial impact on the national level and beyond.