Welcome at IRES!

IRES is a research center of the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL). The center was founded in 1928. With the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and the Institut de Statistique, Biostatistique et Sciences Actuarielles (ISBA), IRES now belongs to the Institute of multidisciplinary research for quantitative modeling and analysis (IMMAQ).

The Institute for the Study of Civilisations, Arts and Letters (INCAL) unites the efforts of research centres and research groups working in the fields of history, archaeology, heritage studies, art history, musicology, philology, literature studies and theatre studies. Due to their complementary or interdisciplinary nature, these various fields share the goal of contributing to a better understanding of different human civilisations and cultures, both past and present.

The research areas developed within the INCAL Institute are as follows: