Les-Energy seed and health. From school to home. Towards a model to raise awareness about the benefits and co-benefits of energy retrofitting in the residential buildings

Project LES (Energy seed and health. From school to home), co-financed by Educació científica, cultura científica i divulgació a la recerca program has the aim to promote education, culture and scientific dissemination to the citizenship or specific group of people that are not specialized in this area. This project is seen as an opportunity to show to future generations that the applied science (experimental workshops) is a decisive strategy to activate the renovation building plan which successfully and comprehensively deals with the climate emergency. The culmination of this project is the sum of results of past research projects in theoretical, descriptive and experimental fields that are previously accomplished avoiding to stay on the Death Valley. As an example, EnerValor2 project has provided evidence about the limited awareness of society in the face of benefits and co-benefits emanating from energy retrofits at houses, especially in the well-being, health and user productivity realms. Giving visibility to the role of science in our context is the opportunity to present the architecture research as an essential key to mitigate the climate change and improve people’s health. The goal of this research is to arrive the major range of people, but the main receptor and driver is students between 8 and 10 years old and then it will be available to seed the energy and environmental conditioning concepts and the interrelations with strategic performance in buildings. The awareness is achieved throughout scientific workshops implemented in primary schools which exhibiting energy and quality air deficiencies and opportunities of their schools and also extrapolated to housing. The success of energy knowledge transmission and awareness in the project is evaluated through the surveys made before and after the workshops, which allow tracing the quantitative and quality stage through the sessions and their energy and health concepts. Reaching adult people throughout our children is the main challenge, but also is the main key to obtain a successful final result. The project diffusion and the awareness to society are not only attained to primary students of the two schools selected for the project, but also the entire educational community (students, teachers, families and the whole of society). Regarding the experimental material (8 scientific briefcases), it will be loaned to the administrative educational headquarter, and the energy educational contents (instru