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 …
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 …
On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Fuggerei, the Fugger Foundation presented how the Fuggerei can contribute to solving social challenges worldwide in a pavilion on Augsburg’s town hall square. For this purpose, the core ideas were presented in a futuristic pavilion, which was sustainably built from the wood of the Fugger forests Read More …
On the occasion of the first mobility week in Augsburg, the partner schools presented their historical and current connections to Jakob Fugger. The Fugger-Forum took place on Thursday, 5th of May at 7pm at the Jakob-Fugger-Gymnasium in Augsburg. All the presentations were streamed online to be available in real time for all those who could Read More …
On the occasion of Heritage Day 2022, 5ECMTb-LMT was able to spend an entire afternoon exploring the site of St Paul’s Church on Friday 29 April 2022. This historic church is located in the old city centre, a stone’s throw from the river Scheldt, in the city quarter where sailors used to live. Therefore, it Read More …
After our visit to Eugeen Van Mieghem’s exhibition last November, we knew the story was not yet finished and we could still learn a lot more about this intriguing period of the port of Antwerp. On 19 April 2022, Investar Fine Arts (which manages the art patrimony of banking and insurance group Argenta) opened an Read More …
Once again we followed the footsteps of Jacob Fugger in our city with our Erasmus team. We know that there are quite a few of them. It is even possible that Jakub Fugger, who is the protagonist in our Erasmus+ project, has never visited Banská Bystrica. But despite this, he and Ján Thurz managed to Read More …
As an introduction to the Erasmus+ project on Jakob Fugger, the pupils of 5ECMTb-LMT visited the exhibition “Komt een Italiaan naar de Nederlanden” (An Italian comes to the Netherlands) in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp on Tuesday 1 February. Based on quotations from Lodovico Guicciardini in his 16th century bestseller “Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Read More …
