Student mobility in Banská Bystrica – May 2023

So we have lived to see it. On Saturday, May 13 2023, students from Almadén, Antwerp, Augsburg and Sterzing met in Bratislava. After a short tour of the courtyard of Bratislava Castle, where they could enjoy an impressive view of the largest river in Slovakia, the largest housing estate in Central Europe, as well as Read More …

Preparing the festival of science – student mobility in Banská Bystrica

Visit to the Podlipa research site in Ľubietová, a thorough tour of the mining heaps, preparation of samples of nails, placing samples in water collection containers, a local stream and a pond to observe the cementation process, observation of the vegetation on the heaps, selection of the most suitable research sites, sampling, observation of the Read More …

For Erasmus+ Groups, Brussels is a MUST

The German and Slovakian Erasmus+-teams started the trip to Antwerp mobility week very early in the morning. After transferring from the airport and train station, they still had a lot of time to explore the centre of the European Union institutions, Brussels, together. They saw not only the historic city centre with the Grand-Place or Read More …

Public presentation of the Banská Bystrica Geopark

On Wednesday evening, 16 November 2022, some members of the Erasmus+ team at our school attended the public presentation of the Banská Bystrica Geopark at the Hotel Národný dom. Geopark – an interesting word. But what does it actually mean? Simply put – a geopark is an area containing one or more sites that are Read More …

3rd Wandering with a Mining Gnome

Also this school year, the pupils of the fifth grade of Moskovská 2 took full advantage of the last warm autumn days and went with the Erasmus team within the “Jakob Fugger – A historical European influencer”- project to the city centre of Banská Bystrica to look for the „permonik“, the guardian of the mines. Read More …

#Erasmusdays 2022 in Banská Bystrica

This year, the October #Erasmusdays at our school have really messed with the pupils’ heads – or rather their tongues. Pupils involved in the Erasmus+ project first got acquainted with tricky linguistic phrases in English, German or Flemish and also brushed up on some well-known Slovak ones. Then they competed in teams: four languages – Read More …

Visit to the State Archives of Slovak Republic

In the project Jakob Fugger a historical European influencer for over two years we have been searching for economical, political, medial, social and environmental footprints which had been left by the richest man in the world in our city. Sooner or later, every proper researcher will visit the archives, where the most important written sources Read More …

Ľubietová – biodiversity on the mining heaps

The mountain village of Ľubietová near Banská Bystrica was an important centre of copper and iron ore mining and processing. On Saturday, 18 June, some of the pupils involved in the Erasmus+ project went to the most famous deposit of this area – Podlipa, which lies on the southern slope of the Vysoká hill. The Read More …