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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.

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    Students from T.G. Masaryka, Moravské Budějovice, Czech Republic have been working on project mission “New Park” as part of their PULCHRA project.

  • Earth Day 2022: a day dedicated to citizen science at Brussa wood with the Italian high schools

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    A day dedicated to science and the environment. This is how the World Earth Day organized by GLOBE Italia took place as

  • PULCHRA Project and School News # 2

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    Look back at our end of 2021 PULCHRA Project and School News. You can read about it here: PULCHRA Project and School

  • 4th Issue of the PULCHRA School News is out!

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    Our 4th issue of our PULCHRA School News is out. A huge thanks to all the PULCHRA City Science Reporters who contributed!

  • Gymnasium Postupická, Czech Republic, student presented her team’s PULCHRA project at the 11th World Environmental Education Congress

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    By Lora Cassidy, a member of PULCHRA team from Gymnázium Postupická, Czech Republic Friday’s meeting took place in Tereza’s educational center right

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    In order to find out the reason why Limbaži residents do not dress in countless sweaters during the winter months and do

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