This day started with documentation, documentation, and again documentation. In international groups, we were working on reports for our blog on the project webpage. Here we could learn how important it is to be able to cooperate, to share ideas and communicate in a common foreign language, to accept the ideas of the teammates and […]
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On the occasion of the European Erasmus Days (14th-19th of October) and the hosting of the one- week student mobility with groups from Slovenia and Slovakia by the Jakob-Fugger-Gymnasium, the school put on a lively and informative event during the morning break. The aim was to give the school community a better understanding of the
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Our day began with a delightful breakfast in the form of a buffet at the Wannenkopfhütte at 7:45, which set the stage for an enlightening tour with Mr. Anton Specht. He graciously shared a wealth of information about the importance of protecting forests in the Alps, which helped us withstand natural hazards such as floods,
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Our journey into the mountains started at 9.09 am on 16 October 2024 at Augsburg main station, where we boarded the regional train to Kempten. We changed trains there and took the next train to Sonthofen. After getting off there, we took a bus, where after a half-hour journey we arrived at a viewing platform.
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The next day at JFG started with a scientifical input by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Buermann from the University of Augsburg. His presentation painted a stark picture of the future of our climate, both globally and regionally. As CO2 levels continue to rise and temperatures climb, we face a future of more extreme weather events, shifting rainfall
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On Monday, all the students and teachers involved in this Erasmus+ Project met at the Jacob-Fugger-Gymnasium ready to start working. The day started with a warm welcome from the headmistress, Mrs. Felber. After that, the German students took their foreign classmates for a tour around their school and showed them rooms like the gym, edu-lab
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For three partner schools from Germany, Slovenia and Slovakia, the next Erasmus+ adventure started on Saturday, 12th October 2024. The hosting students and teachers from Augsburg were anxiously awaiting every beep of their phones with messages from their foreign classmates and colleagues with news about their journey. Since they all are responsible EU citizens, they
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We are not finishing… on the contrary, we are starting a new adventure. The previous year of intensive work on the project activities has brought all participants a lot of new knowledge, interesting lectures and meetings with experts, new places, cities and countries, new friendships that will hopefully last a lifetime and information that will
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The 1st prize of the Rotary Climate Action Award 2024 goes to the “Climate Change in Mountain Areas” project group of the Jakob Fugger Gymnasium Augsburg. The participants of this Erasmus+ project have been studying the effects of climate change in the mountains since September. The data analyses showed how much the mountain and protective
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This day, as is customary during our Erasmus mobilities, was marked by hard work. We had to finish the action plans and had to prepare presentations. That was quite demanding, but together we have created an interesting summary of the activities of the whole mobility week, but above all global action plans that individual schools
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Our day began with a delicious breakfast buffet, fuelling us up for the exciting activities ahead. First of them was a hiking tour back to Tatranská Lomnica, to the Tatra Mountain Museum, where we delved into the pressing issue of climate change and its unique impact on the mountain ecosystem. Thanks to the theoretical input
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We started our day at 7 o’clock by taking a bus to the High Tatras. We drove to the botanical garden of the national park TANAP. The primary goal of the Tatra Nature Exposition is to get to know the Tatra nature as well as to save and preserve rare and endangered species of the
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This day started with with a short warm up – the Bingo game ,,Find someone who…?” where we needed to find someone who was fitting in the questions, for example: Find someone who… doesn’t have a car and write down his or her name. After the game, we were working on some questions for Mr.
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On Monday at 8 o´clock, our mobility started. At the beginning, the headmistress Mrs. Melicherová welcomed the students and teachers from the partners schools and wished them a time full of unforgettable experiences, new knowledge and lifelong friendships. Then we had a quick school tour, organized by the Slovak team, during which we visited different
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June On Saturday morning, the French team walked to Slavin Memorial in Bratislava, as they had already arrived on Friday. The German team left Augsburg at 5 a.m. by bus and train to follow the idea of green travel. Then both, German and French students and teachers met in the capital city Bratislava. After lunch
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Friday was again marked by project work. After two days spent in a pleasant environment surrounded by Alpine peaks, we moved to the working environment of the school. Project work is always divided into several parts: getting to know the project topic better, working with texts and new vocabulary (in our project it is a
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On Thursday, we visited Saint-Gervais-les-Bains in the French Alps, a town very popular for tourists, and thus also facing challenges from mass tourism and climate change. We were welcomed at the town hall by the mayor Mr Jean Marc Peillex, who was talking about the challenges the region must face and the decisions he and the town
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During the third day of this exchange, we visited some classes with our hosts. Then, after lunch we left for Chamonix, which is one of the most famous tourist resorts in the French Alpine region. It is situated at the foot of the Mont Blanc, the highest mountain of the Alps. In Chamonix, people can ski but we came
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Today, hard work on the project was on the agenda. The international teams were working on their multilingual glossaries, ebooks and questionnaires for Chamonix. Also a second external input was on the agenda: Professor Doctor Gilles Escarguel, a global warming expert, biologist and paleontologist from the University in Lyon. He began his lecture by discussing Europe’s projected
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After the French students showed us the impressive school building, we were welcomed warmly by the team of the headmaster and his two deputies. Thanks to a short “petit dejéuner” with croissants and pain au chocolat we had enough power for the presentations of our schools and our tasks we’re working on in multinational mixed teams
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