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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Europe Day in Antwerp

As part of Europe Day 2021, we organised an interactive in-class session to acquaint our students with Jakob Fugger and his relevance in today’s world. Werner De Smet, German teacher at our school and co-coordinator of the Erasmus+ project, started off this session by making a connection with refugees. The students were prompted to think Read More …