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We completed this investigation because we are doing the PULCHRA City Challenge 3 on regenerating urban space to connect people in a healthy environment. Within the PULCHRA challenge we specifically looked at water pollution and the quality of water. Our hypothesis is to examine the water of our local stream to see if the waterRead more

By Student Naomi McCullagh On Thursday the 5th of May a group of 30 PULCHRA students from Portmarnock Community School travelled down to Portmarnock beach, where we worked on our Marram grass project as part of our PULCHRA City Challenge 3. We departed for the beach at 9:30am and arrived down to the sand dunesRead more

This year marks the 52nd International Earth Day with the theme “Invest in our planet!”.An online event with teachers, students and experts took place on 21 April as part of the PULCHRA project. Each science team had prepared a special greeting on Earth Day and invited everyone to remember and appreciate the Earth and allRead more

On Thursday, 28th April PULCHRA Ireland hosted an online sharing event to honour the students, teachers, and stakeholders who have engaged with the Irish element of the European-wide project. The PULCRHA project aims to bring together school students, local experts, community members, and other stakeholders to learn more about different sustainability challenges in the cityRead more

Arsakeio High School in Greece is participating in the 2nd City Challenges under the theme “Regenerating Urban Space to connect People in a Healthy Environment”. The PULCRA science team, consisting of the Arsakeio teachers and students and three stakeholders (University of Athens and two researchers) took land surface measurements in order to study the schoolRead more

Ornithologist Petr Bartes came to the park at TGM elementary school, Moravske Budejoviceand and gave valuable advice on how to attract more birds to the school grounds. We invited the ornithologist to the park because there are currently only a few species of birds. The aim is to increase the number of bird species. CurrentRead more

As an important topic for this year we chose the protection of bird species in Šlapanice. We came up with this idea while looking at the new school pavilion, which, like many other modern buildings today, is not lacking huge glass surfaces. Unfortunately, these glass surfaces are often a death trap for birds, who cannotRead more

As part of the PULCHRA project, a 2nd annual online opening event for City Challenges took place on December 9, with school teams and experts inspiring science teams to launch new research projects. Seven experts from different fields took part. Inta Dimante-Deimantoviča and her colleagues Astra Labuce, Māris Skudra and Atis Labucis from the LatvianRead more

The PULCHRA students of Kingswood Community College, Dublin, Ireland want to increase biodiversity and replenish the outdoor space around their school as part of City Challenge 3 – Regenerating Urban Space to Connect People in a Healthy Environment. The newly built school is currently surrounded by urban infrastructure with little green-space and biodiversity, this providesRead more