Visit to the State Archives of Slovak Republic

In the project Jakob Fugger a historical European influencer for over two years we have been searching for economical, political, medial, social and environmental footprints which had been left by the richest man in the world in our city. Sooner or later, every proper researcher will visit the archives, where the most important written sources 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 …

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 …

Komt een Italiaan naar de Nederlanden

Als inleiding op het Erasmus+-project rond Jakob Fugger bezochten de leerlingen van 5ECMTb-LMT op dinsdag 1 februari de tentoonstelling “Komt een Italiaan naar de Nederlanden” in het Plantin-Moretusmuseum te Antwerpen. Aan de hand van citaten van Lodovico Guicciardini uit zijn 16de eeuwse bestseller “Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi” (1567) worden de leerlingen wegwijs gemaakt Read More …