EduLand is an educational project that combines the power of storytelling with innovative teaching tools. At its core is a comic book about Milan Rastislav Štefánik — a scientist, aviator, politician, and key figure of European history. By turning his life into a multilingual resource, EduLand creates an engaging entry point into both history and language learning.
Building on this narrative, the project develops interactive modules, exercises, and teacher materials designed to bring languages and history into the classroom in a dynamic way. Comics, videos, and digital activities allow students to explore vocabulary and grammar while at the same time discovering historical events and European values. Teachers benefit from ready-to-use resources that enrich their lessons and make complex topics more approachable.
The purpose of EduLand is to encourage curiosity, critical thinking, and intercultural understanding among students. By linking language learning with history and European democracy, it helps young people see knowledge as a whole rather than in isolated subjects. All resources are freely accessible online, ensuring that teachers and learners across Europe can benefit from this innovative approach.
If you are interested in using the EduLand materials in your classrooms, you can contact us at: erasmus[at]inalco.fr
Partners involved in the project
Inalco
Founded in 1795, the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Inalco) is a public higher education and research institution in Paris. This university currently teaches 103 foreign languages and civilisations to 8,500 students of 120 nationalities, with 25% of its student population coming from outside France. No other institution or country offers such diversity in foreign languages and area studies in a single location.
Inalco's twelve area studies departments teach and research the languages of Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Oceania, Africa, and the Americas, as well as these areas' geography, history, institutions, and political, economic, and social life. In recent years, Inalco has been leveraging the opportunities offered by digital learning (such as MOOCs, SPOCs and Open Education Resources) to offer its unique expertise of language and areal studies to a wider range of learners.
The Slovak Studies section offers courses in the Slovak language, literature, culture and history.
Edukácia-Internet
E@I is an international organisation dedicated to promoting intercultural education, language learning and digital innovation. Through multilingual educational projects, it facilitates cooperation and communication around the world, drawing on new technologies and online learning methods.
The organisation has created, either alone or in partnership, several highly successful language learning websites and applications. It all started with the Esperanto website www.lernu.net. Other websites were then created, supported by the Erasmus+ cooperation programme:
- www.slovake.eu for Slovak
- www.deutsch.info for German
- www.rusky.info for Russian
- www.polski.info for Polish
- www.lingvo.info on EU languages
- and the highly entertaining www.vortoj.net - learning vocabulary in a language on a dance mat.
In addition to its online projects, E@I also organises several educational events, such as 'Polyglot Gathering' (the largest gathering of polyglots in the world), 'LingvaFest' (the first and so far only language festival in Slovakia), and 'Universala Kongreso de Esperanto' for the UEA (World Esperanto Association).
Gymnázium Ivana Horvátha
Founded in 1966 in Bratislava, Ivan Horváth High School is an iconic institution that combines tradition and modernity. Initially a modest school on the outskirts of the city, it is now recognised as one of the most prestigious high schools in Slovakia, particularly for its advanced language classes.
Supported by an exceptional teaching staff and a dynamic community, the school stands out for its academic results, which exceed the national average, as well as its involvement in artistic, sporting and debating competitions. Its brilliant and creative students excel at university and beyond, perpetuating the visionary spirit of Slovak figures such as Milan Rastislav Štefánik.