Following the statutes of the Association, the activity aims to:
1. Raise public awareness about the issues linked to functioning, application and protection of natural environment, including climate as its part;
2. Popularize assumptions of the sustainable development and natural resources economy,
3. Allow transfer of objective scientific knowledge about natural environment and its elements to all interested social groups in understandable forms; 
4. Support activities which enhance contacts between scientists and other social groups, and increasing the impact of objective scientific knowledge on shaping public awareness on issues linked to natural environment,
5. Support the achievements of ESPERE members linked to didactic activity or aimed to popularize scientific knowledge on natural environment.

The Association was established in 2004 when the project ESPERE-ENC (= Environmental Science Published for Everybody Round the Earth -Educational Network on Climate) has been finished. The project was financed by European Commission and realized in the years  2003-2004. The aim of the project was to establish in Internet the Climate Encyclopaedia for schools and all persons interested in those issues. It was realized by a consortium of 11 scientific institutions, including 7 research and 4 didactic ones from 7 European countries.

ESPERE Association was registered following Polish legal regulations on 9 June, 2004 (KRS 0000209774).

In 2004, a book was published in Polish by the Jagiellonian University Publishing House in Kraków:

Encyklopedia Klimatologiczna ESPERE: wykorzystanie nowych mediów w edukacji [ESPERE Climate Encyclopaedia: application of new media in education], A. Bokwa, M. Walczak (eds.)

The publication describes the Encyclopaedia and shows the options of its application at school in connection with education programs. There are also examples of classes’ scenarios with the application of ESPERE materials.