Run scripts in console interactively

This might be a rather generic question, but I couldn't find anything on the web.

When I run a script/module in the python console, all the variables which were defined during the execution of the file are still available within the console. But when I run another script in the same console, that script cannot access these variables. Now I know that this is the default behavior in python. Upon execution, a new namespace is generated for the script. However in ipython it is possible to run a script interactively with the already existing namespace of the console by %run -i script.py. Shouldn't that somehow be possible in PyCharm as well? It's essentially using ipython anyway, right? I looked for something in the run configurations, but could not find anything.

So does anybody if this works? If yes, how? Thanks in advance for your help.