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 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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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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After long weeks since the last mobility in Augsburg, Germany, and hours spent preparing for the next European adventure, March 8th finally arrived, and we were able to embark on our two-day trip to France for new experiences and adventures. The journey there was already a great adventure when we found out that due to
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On 1.3.24 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 “Climate change in mountain
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Due to the fact that the three schools agreed on working on the common topic about “climate change in mountain areas” the teachers initiated a logo competition among the students. More that 40 logos were designed and each school sent of the best three logos to the international online voting. During the International Mountain Day
Nowadays, we often hear that the most beautiful gift we can give someone is our time. This is even more true at Christmas time, when we really try to spend it with our loved ones as much as possible. Baking, watching fairy tales, playing board games… We didn’t have this opportunity with our partner school
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Every year, on 11 December, people around the world have a wonderful opportunity to see the world from above, from the perspective of our mountains, during International Mountain Day. This globally recognised event teaches us to appreciate and raise awareness of the importance of mountains in our lives.Students from the Erasmus+ accredited partner schools, working
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If scientific research is to be successful, it must have a predetermined structure, the different parts of which must be followed and carried out. From the definition of the research area and the definition of the research topic, through the study of literature and research, the formulation of hypotheses and the characterization of research objects,
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We woke up at the ‘Wannenkopfhütte’ and had breakfast. The owner prepared our lunchboxes for our hiking tour. After that, we walked through the forest to the bus, which took us to Balderschwang. There we met Mr. Specht, a forest engineer, who took us on a three-hour hiking tour called ‘From Primeval Forest, via Protection
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