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IMPACT ASSESSMENT FOR
ACTION COMPETENCE

Welcome to the IMP>ACT project – a journey towards understanding and enhancing sustainability and climate change education (SCCE)!

Our mission

IMP>ACT aims to understand what learners truly gain from Sustainability and Climate Change Education (SCCE)’ and how it shapes their mindsets and actions. As SCCE is still relatively new in the EU context there is still a lack of understanding of what effective SCCE looks like and how its impact can be measured. As a result, an evidence base to inform decisions for further development of programs and policies is still lacking. To drive assessment of these impacts within but also beyond education (in the wider economy and society), our overall objective is to develop the IMP>ACT assessment framework, tailored to users’ needs in SCCE policy and practice.

News

IMP>ACT Project Spotlighted by Education for Climate Talks
The coordinator of the project Assistant Professor Jelle Boeve-de Pauw… Read more: IMP>ACT Project Spotlighted by Education for Climate Talks

Stakeholder consultations
August 2024, Michiel van Harskamp, Utrecht University, The Netherlands The… Read more: Stakeholder consultations

IMPACT Project Clusters Diverse Climate Change Education Initiatives
Belgrade, Serbia – The IMPACT project funded through the program… Read more: IMPACT Project Clusters Diverse Climate Change Education Initiatives

Objectives

At the core of the IMP>ACT assessment framework are the concepts of action competence (key observable learning outcome of SCCE) and action-orientation (key qualities of teaching, driving learning in SCCE). IMP>ACT will design and validate the framework in a user-centred, iterative approach through small-scale interventions, followed by six large-scale case studies,selected to cover the lifelong learning scope of SCCE. IMP>ACT brings together an interdisciplinary consortium with partners from SCCE research, policy and practice.

Methodology

IMP>ACT applies a participatory design approach to its research and development activities, including relevant knowledge actors and users by means of co-design, co-creation and co-assessment. Through participatory design research, we aim to engage these stakeholders in the design process of the IMP>ACT assessment framework, to ensure that the framework is effective, relevant, and inclusive of their contexts and needs. Our approach to participatory design research involves identifying and recruiting stakeholders, co-designing research questions, collecting, analysing, and interpreting data, knowledge dissemination, and enacting change.