Fugger-Forum “Footprints of Jakob Fugger in Europe” – Almadén 2022

On the occasion of the third project week in Almadén (08.-15.10.22), the partner schools presented their historical and current connections to Jakob Fugger on Monday, 10th of October at 7pm at the IES Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Almadén and also with a livestream On this evening we were very happy to welcome Don Ángel Hernández, an Read More …

Second teacher’s meeting in Banská Bystrica

From Saturday 28 May to Wednesday 1 June, the second teachers’ meeting of the project «Jakob Fugger: a historical European influencer» took place. We went to Banská Bystrica in Slovakia. It was a happy reunion between the various colleagues who had recently met in Augsburg for their first student mobility. On Saturday evening we were 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 …

1st student mobility in Augsburg 2022

On 30th of April, the time had finally come. After more than a year and a half of waiting due to Corona, the students from the partner schools from Belgium, Spain, Slovakia and Italy finally arrived in Augsburg for the kick-off project week as part of the Erasmus+ project. After being welcomed by the German 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 …

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 …

1st staff mobility in Almadén 2021

Unfortunately, due to pandemic-related restrictions travelling around Europe had not been able for a long period of time, but to visit the participating countries is one of the main cores of the international Erasmus+ project called   Jakob Fugger a historical European influencer – #economic#political#social#medial#ecological#footprint.  Therefore, the project team was very delighted that from 6th to 10th Read More …