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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.

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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 anyone who is interested in the project. It includes information on the City Challenges and provides access to project-related topics.
Download the .apk file

Instructions for .apk installation

App user guide

City Science Reporters

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

PULCHRA PROJECT

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824466. This page reflects the views of the author and the European Union is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.

LATEST POSTS

  • Beautiful Local Hills Ruined by Litter – A PULCHRA Student’s Video

    By Antoin McDermott | Comments are Closed

    Watch this moving video created by Daniel Dvořák, a PULCHRA student of 7th grade of Elementary school T. G. Masaryka Moravské Budějovice,

  • No Idling Campaign

    By Antoin McDermott | Comments are Closed

    As part of our project for PULCHRA, our Transition Year class have been monitoring air quality around ACS for 2 years now. The findings show concerning levels of nitrous dioxide both along the main road in front of the school and more worryingly in the drop-off zone or car park area immediately in front of reception. The EPA reports how dangerous air pollution is for our health, but particularly for children most notably for asthma sufferers or anyone with a heart or lung condition.

  • Open Schooling Together Inspiration Session

    By Antoin McDermott | Comments are Closed

    PULCHRA yesterday hosted an Inspiration Session for Open Schooling Together. Open Schooling Together is a collaboration of several projects in Europe working

  • Start of the project at the Latvian school

    By Antoin McDermott | Comments are Closed

    This is a piece written by Kandava Regional Secondary School`s Science Reporters, looking back on the first meeting of their PULCHRA project.

  • MAKING A PULCHRA WORLD!

    By Antoin McDermott | Comments are Closed

    The Open University of Cyprus hosted the Webinar «Making a PULCHRA World» earlier this year. The webinar was attended by the stakeholders

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