CECA gives much importance to research in education and cultural action, and promotes it through the following measures:

• Supporting an international network of researchers which now includes over 100 members. To join the network, one just has to ask to become a member;
• Offering an award, the Colette Dufresne-Tassé Award for Research in Education and Cultural Action;
• Introducing oral presentations of research reports at the Annual International Conference.;
• Publishing electronically research reports presented orally provided that they are revised and detailed to meet the requirements of a scientific paper.
• Offering training workshops to members wanting to start a project or improving one that is already on its way.