In 2022, the IIP created the Interdisciplinary Science and Education Group (CEI) and implemented a Science Teaching and Outreach Program at the institute. This program is structured around four main areas, which are expected to be strengthened and consolidated in the coming years:

1. Science Olympiads: This area includes training activities for high school students participating in state, national, and international science Olympiads, particularly in physics. In the future, training will also be offered to the teachers and tutors of these students in their schools. In parallel with the training, this area also hosts knowledge Olympiads at the IIP, such as the Physics Tournament for Girls (TFM), created in 2023 as an IIP initiative, and the Brazilian Physics Tournament 2024, which was held in March in Natal with the IIP as host.

2. Identification and Support of Gifted Students: This area involves partnerships with talent schools across the country, aiming to identify and support students with high abilities and a special aptitude for science in general, and physics in particular. In addition to organizing its own New Frontiers for Physics School, run by the IIP team since 2022, this area focuses on consolidating the existing partnership with the Talentos Metrópole School at IMD-UFRN and prospecting other talent schools nationwide that have the potential for partnerships with the IIP.

3. Science Outreach: Although there is a growing volume of science outreach activities in Brazil, it remains modest compared to what is done in Northern Hemisphere countries, leaving much of the population with at most a folkloric understanding of science. This lack of information affects not only people's knowledge but also decision-making by individuals and society as a whole. This area explores ways to foster collaboration between schools, universities, and the press to integrate modern science content into journalist training and to incorporate journalism and science dissemination content into the curricula of teachers and researchers. In parallel with studying science outreach, this area plans to carry out outreach activities based on research by IIP faculty and visitors.

4. Collaborative Events and Visits Debating Challenges for Education in the 21st Century: The IIP's event agenda includes visits and events featuring researchers and educators aimed at discussing issues related to science education and science outreach. In organizing these events and visits, teaching activities find synergy with the IIP's traditional activities, which have accumulated experience over more than a decade with events (seminars, workshops, schools, conferences, etc.) and with short- and long-term collaborative visits, creating structures and mechanisms for their realization. These mechanisms, created and refined by the IIP throughout its history, will be available to leverage the teaching area. The conferences held in 2018 and 2021 are examples of this category of events, while the visits of Prof. Maria Luiza Miguez (IFNMG) and Dr. Cristhiano Duarte (University of Leeds) in 2023, which are expected to be repeated in 2024, exemplify the category of collaborative visits. In parallel with these four areas of the Science Teaching and Outreach Program, the IIP has developed a Secondary Studies Program (PES) in Quantum Science.