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 …

Fuggerei Next500 – from 1521 to the future

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the Fuggerei, the Fugger Foundation presented how the Fuggerei can contribute to solving social challenges worldwide in a pavilion on Augsburg’s town hall square. For this purpose, the core ideas were presented in a futuristic pavilion, which was sustainably built from the wood of the Fugger forests 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 …

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 …

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 …