11 May 2026The team responsible for conducting the project “Training Teachers to Educate a New Generation of Environmental Citizens: A Randomized Evaluation of the CLIMASCO Program”, selected through the call launched by the IDEE program and the Office for Climate Education (OCE), includes two members from CEE-M.
Climate change education (CCE) is increasingly regarded as a central lever of public policy to prepare younger generations to face the environmental transition. However, rigorous causal evidence remains limited regarding how to design school programs that are both effective and easily scalable, particularly when teachers face practical, pedagogical, and contextual constraints in their implementation.
The project Training Teachers to Educate a New Generation of Environmental Citizens: A Randomized Evaluation of the CLIMASCO Program focuses on evaluating professional development initiatives implemented as part of the CLIMASCO project to strengthen climate change education and ecological transition education in France.
The project will test different approaches aimed at strengthening climate change education in French middle schools, analyze how these interventions influence teachers’ knowledge, their sense of self-efficacy, and their pedagogical practices, and assess whether these changes translate into improvements in students’ climate literacy, support for climate policies, and pro-environmental behaviors — including through their educational orientation choices — as well as potential spillover effects within schools. Variations in the intensity, nature, and cost of the interventions will make it possible to compare their cost-effectiveness.
The research team responsible for conducting this project is composed of Simon Briole (Université de Montpellier, CEE-M), Carlo Barone (Sciences Po Paris), Coralie Chevallier (École Normale Supérieure-PSL), Nina Guyon (Paris School of Economics, École Normale Supérieure-PSL, Institut des Politiques Publiques), and Emmanuelle Lavaine (Université de Montpellier, CEE-M).