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On November 30th the PULCHRA project held a second all stakeholder workshop. The aim of the workshop was to provide an opportunity for schools to share their experiences with PULCHRA City Challenges and present their results. 100 participants representing 14 different countries attended the event. Participants were interested to hear from keynote speaker, Alise Oļesika, from the UNESCO National Commission,Read more

The 2nd Open School Event «Share your PULCHRA challenges» was successfully held on November 22, 2021, organized by the Open University of Cyprus, in order to highlight the actions and the way of implementation of the five (5) schools participating in the European Horizon 2020 Program ‘PULCHRA: Science in the city : Building Participatory UrbanRead more

How are your projects getting off the ground? When you are looking for the best solution to your problem, do you use the inquiry-based learning method? Are you unsure? Try it, it’s worth it! Inquiry based learning has been a part of the PULCHRA project since the beginning, click here to read more . InRead more

The simulation game – what to do to save our community Students from the Ag. Ioanni Lyceum in Cyprus were contributing to creating a PULCHRA game for the environment and circular economy. Read their article below to find out what the City Challenge Team creates and the game simulation. The first question that we haveRead more

Silver award at the Cyprus Education Leaders Awards 2021, in the category “Bonding with Society”, was secured by Paralimni Lyceum through its action in the research project PULCHRA Science in the City. The award winning project “Innovative actions for regeneration and improvement in issues of accessibility of the area around the Paralimni Lyceum” aims atRead more

The ideal sustainable city should have a balance between growth, quality of life, environmental sustainability, and human values.  To achieve that a variety of urban dimensions should be explored, so the PULCHRA project of the students from the 1st Arsakeio High school (Athens, Greece) tries to assess the impact of our daily life activities onRead more

Students of the T. G. Masaryk Elementary School in Moravské Budějovice, Czech Republic invite you to a virtual visit to the Chamomile Hills Protected Area. Within their PULCHRA project, they focused on the protection of this area and aimed to raise awareness of the importance of this natural site among the local population. The videoRead more

Our school climate project We are students at the Johann-Gottfried-Herder secondary school in Cologne. The topic which we are dealing with in our PULCHRA project is the climate in our city. We focussed on our schoolyard. At our school there are measuring instruments we used to compare how different parts of the school differ inRead more

The Italian PULCHRA students focused on their local surface waters and paid particular attention to the surrounding land covers to check for the presence of polluting sources You can read more about their PULCHRA project below Regenerate the urban space in a healthy, connected, welcoming and resilient environment We are the students of the 5ageoRead more

Even university students know Pulchra thanks to the course of the University of Udine on sustainable development. The course is structured in 6 modules, subdivided from October 2020 and June 2021. In the perspective of an innovative path of knowledge for the sustainability of the urban environment, the module 6 of the course talks aboutRead more