THE MERCURYMINES IN ALMADÉN …in the footsteps of the Fuggers and Welsers in Spain

As part of the Europe Weeks of the City of Augsburg, a lecture on the topic «THE MERCURYMINES IN ALMADÉN…on the footsteps of the Fuggers and Welsers in Spain» took place at the Fugger-Welser Erlebnis Museum in Augsburg. Katharina Dehner M.A., who visited Almadén in October 2023 together with the project group of the Jakob-Fugger-Gymnasium, Read More …

Preparing the festival of science – student mobility in Banská Bystrica

Visit to the Podlipa research site in Ľubietová, a thorough tour of the mining heaps, preparation of samples of nails, placing samples in water collection containers, a local stream and a pond to observe the cementation process, observation of the vegetation on the heaps, selection of the most suitable research sites, sampling, observation of the Read More …

Student Mobility in Antwerpen – March 2023

On Saturday, 4 March, the guests from Germany, Italy, Spain and Slovakia arrived in Antwerp. The «railway cathedral» left a deep impression on everyone. Some students were happy to see each other again after previous mobility. Others looked forward to meeting each other in real life for the first time. The evening was spent with Read More …

A walk on “het Eilandje”…

On Friday 13 January, students from 6ECMT visited the neighbourhood het Eilandje. Following the opening of the Connecting Dock in 1869, this area was called ‘het Eilandje’. The brooks, canals and ditches had had to make way for modern docks, locks, channels and the Scheldt. Because of its location, mostly dockers, boatmen and workmen lived Read More …

Public presentation of the Banská Bystrica Geopark

On Wednesday evening, 16 November 2022, some members of the Erasmus+ team at our school attended the public presentation of the Banská Bystrica Geopark at the Hotel Národný dom. Geopark – an interesting word. But what does it actually mean? Simply put – a geopark is an area containing one or more sites that are Read More …

3rd Wandering with a Mining Gnome

Also this school year, the pupils of the fifth grade of Moskovská 2 took full advantage of the last warm autumn days and went with the Erasmus team within the «Jakob Fugger – A historical European influencer»- project to the city centre of Banská Bystrica to look for the „permonik“, the guardian of the mines. Read More …

Student Mobility in Almadén 2022

The 3rd Erasmus+ student mobility took place from October 8th to 14th, 2022 in Almadén, Spain. The groups from Augsburg, Banská Bystrica and Sterzing took very early flights to have the opportunity to visit the city center of Madrid on Saturday. Thanks to Katharina Dehner from the Fugger and Welser Museum in Augsburg, who visited Read More …

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 …