At the University Institute, we are working to help ensure the survival of humanity and the environment that supports humanity's flourishing. Our most important goal is to provide accurate information that would help protect the cycle of life for future generations.

We research and offer solutions to the most critical challenges humanity faces to survive as a species. (The links in the learn pulldown menu will cover the many areas we are working on.)

Our research and educational topics and goals, in order of their current priority, include:

1. Promoting the training and use of the master tool set of rational thinking, analysis, and decision-making methodologies, especially the breakthrough DMAP (dialectical metasystemic analysis and problem-solving). This new DMAP methodology is ideal for optimized multisystem or single-system analysis, problem-solving, and the management of complex adaptive systems, including climate change and political, economic, social, and ecological systems.

DMAP methodology advances and transcends, yet includes systems thinking and over 70 earlier rational-thinking, data-analysis, and problem-solving methods, such as logic, causality, bias checking, probability, big data errors, and scientific falsification. (All of these rational thinking methodologies are found in our three rational thinking guides for beginners, intermediate, and advanced use.)

2. Climate change. (The Universe Institute partners with Job One for Humanity, a climate change think tank, on climate research, analysis, and solution projects.)

3. Environmental protection and sustainability. Particularly, limited or depleting planetary resources management, such as marine protein depletion, growing freshwater supply scarcity, and the depletion of other critical resources like potassium for fertilizers.

4. Prevention of war and maintaining political stability primarily by helping to evolve a new "global country" and global government with the powers to make laws and enforce them on transnational issues threatening the survival of humanity. (Issues limited only to national boundaries would remain under the Control of national governments.)

5. Educating about the new principles of Progressive Evolution, particularly its educational possibilities in safeguarding and securing humanity's future.

6. Human population stability and management in alignment with the Earth's carrying capacity.

7. Stability of national and global economic systems and financial markets.