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 …
On 3 December 2021, the students of the Jakob-Fugger-Gymnasium, together with their teachers Christina Obermeier and Jürgen Wünsch, visited the Fugger and Welser museum in the city centre of Augsburg as part of their Erasmus+ project. We had the opportunity to join a workshop on the museum’s main topic which is approaching history as a Read More …
Christmas in Europe, Europe in our schools and on our computer screens. This is what Friday 17 December 2021 looked like in all partner schools involved in our Erasmus+ project during the online Christmas meeting of pupils and teachers. For a few tens of minutes we were happy to exchange regular lessons for time spent Read More …
In the 16th century, Antwerp experienced its Golden Age. You could say its importance in those days can be compared to that of New York today. Antwerp owed its wealth to its Port, which was also frequently used by Jakob Fugger. After the Spanish occupation and the closure of the Scheldt, however, things went downhill, Read More …
The Erasmus+-project team at IES Pablo Ruiz Picasso started their project work about the minerals and the mines in Almadén on the base of a article published by José Eugenio Ortiz, Octavio Puche, Isabel Rábano, Luis Felipe Mazadiego named “The Almadén mercury mining district”. They worked together with their English teachers on this very detailed scientifical report Read More …
Have you ever met a mine goblin „Permonik“ on the square? No? Well, our pupils from the fifth classes have. They met him there in person one September day. The mine goblin was a special one and he had also some assistants, pupils who are a part of the project Erasmus+ Jakob Fugger a historical European influencer – #economic #political Read More …
