Searching for #footprints of Jacob Fugger in Banská Bystrica

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 …

An Italian comes to the Netherlands

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 …

Workshop Fugger and Welser Museum Augsburg

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 …

Videoconferencia de Navidad

Navidad en Europa, Europa en nuestras escuelas y en las pantallas de nuestros ordenadores. Así se veía el viernes 17 de diciembre de 2021 en todas las escuelas asociadas involucradas en nuestro proyecto Erasmus+ durante la reunión navideña en línea de alumnos y maestros. Durante unas pocas decenas de minutos estuvimos felices de intercambiar lecciones Read More …

History of the mines in Almadén

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 …

Exploring Banská Bystrica with a mining dwarf

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 …