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Discovery in the Fugger Archives – Jakob Fugger in Banská Bystrica in 1507

Thanks to the impulse of the headmistress of the Jakob Fugger Grammar School in Augsburg, OStDin Angelika Felber, there is a sensation to report that familiarised the learners of the Erasmus project with the important work in the Princely and Count Fugger Family and Foundation Archives: the head of the archives, Dr Stefan Birkle, discovered Read More …

Student mobility in Banská Bystrica – May 2023

We hebben het dus nog mogen meemaken. Op zaterdag 13 mei 2023 ontmoetten studenten uit Almadén, Antwerpen, Augsburg en Sterzing elkaar in Bratislava. Na een korte rondleiding over de binnenplaats van het kasteel van Bratislava, waar ze konden genieten van een indrukwekkend uitzicht op de grootste rivier van Slowakije, de grootste woonwijk van Centraal-Europa en Read More …

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 …

Tree planting campaign in the Fugger Forest near Augsburg

According to the project title Jakob Fugger a historical European influencer – #economic #political #social #medial #ecological #footprint, the Erasmus+ project is also about the ecological footprint left by Jakob Fugger‘s activities in the field of mining, among others. Therefore, it was obvious to determine the ecological footprint of the project and especially of the Read More …

Verslag leerlingenmobiliteit Antwerpen

Op zaterdag 4 maart kwamen de gasten uit Duitsland, Italië, Spanje en Slowakije in Antwerpen aan. De “spoorwegkathedraal” liet op iedereen een diepe indruk na. Sommige leerlingen waren blij om elkaar weer te zien na een voorbije mobiliteit, andere leerlingen keken ernaar uit om voor het eerst in real life kennis te kunnen maken. De Read More …

For Erasmus+ Groups, Brussels is a MUST

The German and Slovakian Erasmus+-teams started the trip to Antwerp mobility week very early in the morning. After transferring from the airport and train station, they still had a lot of time to explore the centre of the European Union institutions, Brussels, together. They saw not only the historic city centre with the Grand-Place or Read More …