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 …

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 …

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 …

Student Mobility in Sterzing 2022

The exchange meeting started on the evening of 17 September with the arrival of the guests’ bus. The participants had the opportunity to get to know each other over a cosy dinner with pizza and pasta. The owner of the restaurant even opened the disco upstairs exclusively for the group, where the students could chat 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 …

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 …