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 …
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 …
After our visit to Eugeen Van Mieghem’s exhibition last November, we knew the story was not yet finished and we could still learn a lot more about this intriguing period of the port of Antwerp. On 19 April 2022, Investar Fine Arts (which manages the art patrimony of banking and insurance group Argenta) opened an Read More …
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 …
Navidad en Europa, Europa en nuestras escuelas y en las pantallas de nuestros ordenadores. Así se veía el viernes 17 de diciembre de 2021 en todas las escuelas asociadas involucradas en nuestro proyecto Erasmus+ durante la reunión navideña en línea de alumnos y maestros. Durante unas pocas decenas de minutos estuvimos felices de intercambiar lecciones Read More …
In the 16th century, Antwerp experienced its Golden Age. You could say its importance in those days can be compared to that of New York today. Antwerp owed its wealth to its Port, which was also frequently used by Jakob Fugger. After the Spanish occupation and the closure of the Scheldt, however, things went downhill, Read More …
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 …
Due to the COVID pandemic all kick-off-meeting had to be organized in distance, so we agreed on having a common great kick off-meeting with all partners and all participants of the different partner schools. The result was that we have to organize a session with more than 150 people, where no school has a proper Read More …
