KADOC - Documentation and Research centre on Religion, Culture and Society is an interfaculty centre of KU Leuven.

KADOC is a heritage institution in the fullest sense. As an archival and documentation centre, it has built up a comprehensive and integrated heritage operation based on social and philosophical movements.

KADOC wishes to contribute to research on the cultural biography and life story of Flanders by focusing specifically on the interchange between religion, culture and society as it evolved from the second half on the 18th century.

KADOC's work is focussed on three central axes that are complementary and in synergy with one another.

1. KADOC is an institution dedicated to heritage conservation. This means that the centre actively collects, preserves, maintains and makes available very diverse material and non-material forms of heritage, such as records, publications, audiovisual material, stories and testimonials, museum objects and the like. This work is done in a professional way, with future generations in mind, and in conformity with the standard archival and record-keeping rules and regulations.
   

2. KADOC aims to provide a scholarly and scientific examination of the heritage it explores. It not only wishes to stimulate external research on relevant themes but it also actively carries out its own research policy by

• setting up multdisciplinary research groups;
• supporting and preparing publications and exhibitions on specific topics;
• organising scholarly (including comparative international) colloquia, seminars, workshops and symposia;
• issuing scholarly publications, including the series KADOC Studies and KADOC Artes (published by University Press Leuven);
• participating in international research groups, projects and meetings.
  

3. In addition to this scholarly work and in accordance with its own thematic approach and the heritage it conserves, KADOC also wishes to foster greater public awareness and appreciation of heritage concerns by

• responding to requests from institutions and individuals;
• supporting and publishing popular publications;
• putting on exhibitions and other events aimed at the general public;
• offering training, advice and support;
• creating and supporting networks related to heritage conservation and research.