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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

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

Our 2nd issue of our PULCHRA School News is out. A huge thanks to all the PULCHRA City Science Reporters who contributed! Read all about the amazing work being done by school students working with communities and experts in exploring cities as urban ecosystems here: Pulchra Newspaper July_2021_Issue_2Read more

The first PULCHRA City Challenge is almost over. What did the year in the project bring to students? We asked them a few questions…   Do you feel that you can change your surroundings? Despite the year being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, students have managed to get results and most students think they canRead more

Now you have a unique opportunity to download a new PULCHRA application to your mobile phone, a dissemination and engagement tool on the topic of cities acting. Its future life is up to you. You can download the PULCHRA App in Google Play (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.app.pulchra ) and App Store (https://apps.apple.com/lt/app/pulchra-schools/id1560877599)! A user guide, that describe the app and facilitate theRead more

Dear PULCHRA students, I can’t believe it’s been almost a year since I started preparing the PULCHRA “How to Report” handbook. My task was clear: to explain how to get important information to reach people, how to write an article, how to make a video, what to focus on and what to avoid. But IRead more

The team of the National College Dinicu Golescu (Romania) finished the Pollution Map Project – The anthropic impact on the environment in the Campulung municipality. Our team is called WAGE because we want to analyze Water, Air, vegetation (Green), and be real Explorers. WAGE team started this project with an environmental survey addressed to theRead more

We have been at home since Christmas and we couldn’t meet neither at school nor in our Ecology Club. Finally, we started our online meetings. During our virtual meetings we were dealing with a problem, how to continue in project PULCHRA. We were planning a clean-up the Chamomile Hills in spring. Every year children withRead more

Within the PULCHRA project, pupils from the elementary school Štefcova in Hradec Králové (Czech Republic) have decided to discover the green areas around their school. They wanted to learn about the insects that live there, the flowers that grow there and how to improve them and care for them to improve the biodiversity. They namedRead more