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 …

Mobiliteit met leerlingen aan Augsburg 2022

Op 30 april was het eindelijk zover. Na meer dan anderhalf jaar wachten omwille van Corona arriveerden de studenten van de partnerscholen uit België, Spanje, Slowakije en Italië eindelijk in Augsburg voor de kick-off projectweek in het kader van het Erasmus+ project. Nadat iedereen door de Duitse gastleerlingen en hun families verwelkomd was, kwamen alle 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 …

Workshop Fugger and Welser Museum Augsburg

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 …

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 …

Exploring Banská Bystrica with a mining dwarf

Have you ever met a mine goblin „Permonik“ on the square? No? Well, our pupils from the fifth classes have. They met him there in person one September day. The mine goblin was a special one and he had also some assistants, pupils who are a part of the project   Erasmus+  Jakob Fugger a historical European influencer – #economic #political Read More …

Europe Day – Project week in Banská Bystrica

On the occasion of The Europe Day (Mai 9th), our students had the opportunity to take part in various activities from our interesting programe, created according to the european spirit. During the whole week, our students were working on topics like European Union and the Member Countries, Flags of the EU, European Currency, Human Rights, Read More …