SETAC emerges out of the need to undertake specific action for the improvement ofscience education. It regards science education as among the fundamental tools fordeveloping active citizens in the knowledge society. Science and technology areimportant school curriculum subjects but are also directly linked to our everyday lives,requesting very often engagement and informed decisions by all citizens. Scienceeducation is therefore not only a subject to be delivered by teachers and be learned bystudents inspiring, hopefully, related careers; but should be also seen as a lifelongrelevanttool for developing informed and active citizens.In this sense, the project addresses students and teachers both as agents engaged inclassroom practice and as citizens with right to knowledge and social responsibility. Itwill develop products for learning in science and technology as the basis for respondingto the needs of the knowledge society.The products are:a) a new pedagogy for engaging with science and technology, drawing frominquiry-based science education and science & society methodologies;b) ICT-based resources for teachers;c) a European in-service training course.These products focus on Health, Energy and Climate Change. They will emerge fromexperimentation with students in the different consortium countries, direct consultation ofteachers and a research study on students’ motivation in science and technology.A website will be produced in order to disseminate information and make the outcomesof the project available to users.SETAC activities will be developed through cooperation between formal and informaleducation institutions, that is, schools, teacher training institutions, universities andscience museums involved in science education from a different point of view and withdifferent but complementary teaching and training methodologies.The impact of the project actually will be for all professionals in science education, thatis, school teachers, trainers, museum educators, university professors engaged intraining and education. SETAC will try to reach as many professionals as possible withinand outside the consortium through a specific dissemination strategy and by makinginformation and products available in EN and in other consortium languages.