The pluridisciplinary research group GIRSEF (focussed on sociology, psychology and education) was founded in 1998 at the Université catholique de Louvain. Developing fundamental research in the fields of education, training and professional groups is the main purpose of the research center
The research center counts presently some 20 permanent staff members mainly with a status of teacher-researcher and about 60 non-permanent members achieving a doctoral thesis or a post-doctoral research. The current research activities are organized around two teams :