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This is a piece written by Kandava Regional Secondary School`s Science Reporters, looking back on the first meeting of their PULCHRA project. So, it happened that on a beautiful and quite sunny Thursday afternoon, the gathering of a peculiar team consisting of Kandava’s Regional Secondary School’s headmistress, four teachers, four students of class 12, eighteenRead more

The Open University of Cyprus hosted the Webinar «Making a PULCHRA World» earlier this year. The webinar was attended by the stakeholders of OUC team who presented issues of promotion of Sustainable Urban Mobility in Cyprus, Sustainable Development and Urban Planning as well as Zero Waste to Landfill actions. Presented by Ms. Vana Gkania (TransportationRead more

How to tell and explain science? How to have fun with science? These are the questions that gave rise to the “Pulchra Dissemination Hack” organized by WAYouth, Globe Italia and the University of Udine. Laboratories and brainstorming with the students of the italian schools ISIS “Bassa Friulana” of Cervignano del Friuli, IIS “Il Tagliamento” ofRead more

An effective method used in our project. One of the tools available to our students within the PULCHRA project is the Remote Sensing (RS) Tool. The tool allows students to explore satellite imagery and obtain data that can support or complement their own research. Remote sensing provides us with data acquired by sensors on satellites,Read more

Below is an article written by the City Science Reporters in a school in Prague on their PULCHRA  project on waste. We study at the Postupická secondary school in Prague. Within the environmental education classes, we participate in the PULCHRA project. Our topics of choice are waste management, collection and separation and raising public awarenessRead more

Below is an article written by members of the PULCHRA team in a school in the Czech Republic on their school’s fantastic PULCHRA project looking at how their town deals with litter. Within the PULCHRA project, our team of researchers from the elementary Czech school in Ledeč nad Sázavou decided to explore the workings ofRead more

The University of Udine, through a team of the department of Agro-Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences (DI4A), coordinates the PULCHRA project in Italy and has identified as a general theme (City Challenge) “Regenerating urban space to connect people in a healthy environment” From biodiversity in the city to soil-plant relationships, there are many topics ofRead more

PULCHRA Webinar Video At an online webinar yesterday four schools from Ireland presented their results from part of their PULCHRA projects which involved measuring the air quality outside their schools. At the start of the school year the schools explored PULCHRA City Challenge Five: Moving around the City – Green Transport and Mobility Patterns thatRead more

Better jobs and opportunities are pulling more and more people to cities. By the year 2030, two-thirds of Europeans will live in cities1. But urbanisation has created a unique set of problems, such as environmental degradation and poverty. Urban life is far from ideal, and it has become crucial that we develop new solutions to tackle rapid urban expansion, especially given the current climate crisis. New methods of city planning and governing is essential in managing environmental, social and economic problems in cities.

On November 25th, 2020, teachers and students from PULCHRA project pilot schools in Latvia gathered at a Virtual Opening Event on the ZOOM platform and met with project experts from different fields. Experts greeted participants and wished success to the project. Latvian National Commission for UNESCO introduced Sustainable Development Goals, and other experts explained differentRead more