30 years ago, on October 16, 1992, by the decision of the Government of the Republic of Moldova, the Free International University of Moldova was founded. Being called as the child of the reforms, the Free International University of Moldova managed in a short time to assert itself as a comprehensive institution through the fields it promotes education, science, culture, sport, but also humanity, innovation, collaboration, social progress. The value of the university's activity is determined by the ability to promote a strategy that maintains and strengthens the common academic tradition with the implementation of the latest practices that meet national and international quality standards, emphasizing the specific potential of each faculty and directs it towards the achievement of its common objectives. The experience of the Free International University of Moldova is renowned for the permanent consolidation of its position on the international level and the reforming ideas launched in the national academic space, by asserting itself as a vector of change in society not only through training, but also through scientific research that generates innovation. The 13th edition of the International Scientific Conference "The contemporary issues of the socio-humanistic sciences" is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Free International University of Moldova. The conference aims to orient versed and young researchers to a deep understanding of the problems that contemporary humanity is solving, to the most accurate and complete capture of changes in individual behaviour and interpersonal relationships, the factors that generate and sustain them, to the ways in which reality can become better – thus the ideas and facts favourable to contemporary people and their environment can gain sustainability. The socio-humanistic sciences contribute to the understanding of the present and the formation of our collective future, present analyses and solutions to ethical, moral, societal, relational problems. Research is oriented towards human health and well-being. The assessment of living conditions and health-generating factors, of social assistance policies for vulnerable population categories, of ways to ensure a healthy relationship between body and mind is a field that is currently intensively researched. The results of these researches in the most frequent cases are implemented in practice and become known in wide circles of people. More than that, the social sciences can point to the way in which the environment can be transformed into a friendlier one. Socio-humanistic scientists can make their work interesting, and through its results, they can make other people's lives more interesting. Most researchers in the socio-humanistic sciences are both attentive listeners, thus knowing their research problems, and communicators who can convey their knowledge and experiences to the large public in accessible language. In a knowledge-based world, we need people who can promote knowledge and thereby contribute to increasing the collective IQ. Socio-humanistic studies improve the lives and education of our children. All societies and all governments want to prove that they are the best for children, but too often education reforms take place without taking children's best interests into account. Research in education shows that parents are more concerned about their children enjoying school than making them the best students, that they receive knowledge for life than knowing all the rules and formulas in the textbooks by school. This is why researchers are driven to uncover new insights into what makes schools and education effective. Socio-humanistic science can change the world for the better, being concerned with the social and economic progress of humanity in general, influencing the activity of practitioners, looking for creative solutions to various problems that human and the masses currently encounter. We need socio-humanistic sciences to guarantee our democracy. The socio-humanistic sciences offer multiple perspectives on society, inform social policy, scrutinize and critique the interests of the powerful. This work of researchers is essential in protecting modern democracy and the transparency of the decisions of those in power. The conference discusses the methodological aspects of psychological research, the paradigms of social intervention in the context of new realities, the development of education and humanities in the era of knowledge and information. By generalizing opinions and proposals, distributing them in the academic and non-academic environment, this conference will improve university programs and the quality of relations with partners in the practical socio-economic sector, as well as it will promote innovation and the highest values in society.