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 …

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 …

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 …

Open Day at the Jakob Fugger Gymnasium

On 3.3.23 the Open Day at the Jakob-Fugger-Gymnasium took place. More than 250 families informed themselves on this afternoon about the diverse offers and of course the Erasmus+ team was also represented with its own information stand. There, the participating pupils informed the guests in detail about the ongoing project about Jakob Fugger and provided Read More …

Christmas greetings from the partner schools

After more than two years of very active project work the schools ran different activities for Xmas 2022 like writing and sending over xmas-cards with small gifts to their friends in Europe. Just before Christmas, all the pupils had the opportunity to meet at the virtual Christmas markets where they could play various online games, Read More …

Public presentation of the Banská Bystrica Geopark

On Wednesday evening, 16 November 2022, some members of the Erasmus+ team at our school attended the public presentation of the Banská Bystrica Geopark at the Hotel Národný dom. Geopark – an interesting word. But what does it actually mean? Simply put – a geopark is an area containing one or more sites that are 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 …