This article relates the process of formation of groups and an exchange network, supported by the CNPq, FINEP, INEP and CAPES in the period from 1981 to 1992 with the aim of improving the quality of educational research in the country. The goal was to offer further qualification to professionals involved in educational research by means of an exchange of information and by developing joint research based on a system of exchanges by means of face-to-face contact between the researchers involved. In addition, it offered consultancy to emerging groups delivered by those with a broad experience in the field. It analyses the positive consequences of this process and, in particular, how it helped to strengthen some of ANPEd's working groups.
educational research; exchange network; working groups belonging to ANPEd