The project aimed to: 1. Support and improve teacher education with a focus on energy solutions, the environment, and society. 2. Strengthen science skills and promote STEM education by educating the next generation on energy-related issues. 3. Equip teachers to prepare students to face global challenges and build resilience to change. 4. Upskill future and in-service teachers and academics through innovative didactic approaches that enhance science communication. 5. Provide professional learning for academics using pedagogies based on imagination tools, enriching Higher Education curricula. 6. Promote collaboration between academia and energy sector stakeholders by fostering a network of open partnerships. 7. Address gender imbalance in STEM by empowering women teachers and encouraging female students toward scientific careers.
With e^4, we aimed to address climate change challenges and enhance science education through innovative approaches. We addressed: 1. Urgent environmental and technological challenges, particularly climate change and energy transition 2. The decline of cognitive tools linked to imaginative understanding, due to transmissive science teaching 3. The need to adapt education to new generations' learning styles, boosting motivation and environmental responsibility. 4. A lack of imaginative engagement in sustainability-related sciences, limiting students’ ability to make conscious choices. 5. Insufficient higher education professional learning opportunities to support educators implementing innovative science teaching methodologies 6. The gap between school curricula and the working world, limiting real-world relevance in science education. 7. The underrepresentation of women in science and leadership roles.