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PULCHRA explores the open schooling concept through the theme “Cities as urban ecosystems” and creates new partnerships in local communities to foster science education for all citizens

It’s Science in The City!

PULCHRA is an EU funded project with partners from ten nations. It encourages and supports students in urban schools to investigate environmental and sustainability issues in their localities with a focus on the topic “Cities as urban ecosystems”.

They will do this through:

open schooling – doing real life experiments in collaboration with their communities with support from partners, experts, and other stakeholders
inquiry-based learning – using resources, materials, and teaching approaches, researched, developed, produced and facilitated by PULCHRA

City Challenges

The project has identified several common issues/opportunities that European cities face due to increased urbanization. These are environmental, social and economic in nature.

In response the project partners designed specific ‘challenges’ for participating schools to explore. These will:

build good scientific knowledge;
promote expert and community participation;
and encourage active engagement in shared living environments and futures.

City Challenges have been designed to link with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and improve the lives and prospects of everyone, everywhere.

There are 6 City Challenges:

1. Powering Cities without Harming the Climate

2. Buildings for the Future City

3. Regenerating Urban Space to Connect People in a Healthy Environment

4. From waste disposal to Resource Efficiency – Circular Economy at the City Scale

5. Mobility Patterns that support Community Development

6. Innovation for Social and Environmental Benefit

City Science Teams

Mixed Science Teams consisting of teachers, other stakeholders, and students explore and disseminate City Challenges information and results.

City Challenges Platform

A City Challenges Platform has been set up to facilitate the learning and collaboration of the members of the city science teams and wider network. It includes:

digital educational materials;
relevant experiments;
distance-learning courses on cities as urban eco-systems.

Go to City Challenges Platform

PULCHRA App

The PULCHRA App is designed for the general public. It includes information on the City Challenges and provides access to project-related topics.

City Science Reporters

City Science Reporters are selected students from the Science Team that will create communications on the project and its results.

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Open Call for schools application – EXTENSION OF DEADLINE

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The deadline to express interest for participation to the PULCHRA project is extended due to the COVID 19 situation. The new deadline is 30/6/2020. You
PULCHRA call for Schools

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This is an open call for schools that are interested in participating to the PULCHRA project activities. Below you can find the
Pre-announcement of PULCHRA Call for Schools

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Τhis is a pre-announcement of a forthcoming call for applications. The call will open in the first half of February 2020 and
Project Website Ready!

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We are happy to release the PULCHRA project website!

ABOUT

PULCHRA explores the open schooling concept through the theme “Cities as urban ecosystems” and creates new partnerships in local communities to foster science education for all citizens

It’s Science in The City!

open schooling – doing real life experiments in collaboration with their communities with support from partners, experts, and other stakeholders

inquiry-based learning – using resources, materials, and teaching approaches, researched, developed, produced and facilitated by PULCHRA

City Challenges

There are 6 City Challenges:

City Science Teams

City Challenges Platform

PULCHRA App

City Science Reporters

PULCHRA PROJECT

LATEST POSTS

Open Call for schools application – EXTENSION OF DEADLINE

PULCHRA call for Schools

Pre-announcement of PULCHRA Call for Schools

Project Website Ready!

PROJECT PARTNERS

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