Technology
Hindenburg AI
Our own artificial intelligence, Hindenburg, built by our team.
Projects
Research.Develop.Put to the test.
Our educators build their projects together, and every one of them is made for schools: our own AI, an archive, research, books and curricula made to measure, competitions, a language game, Model United Nations conferences and BRINK, our online learning platform from kindergarten to grade 12.
Made by our educators
The foundation’s own projects, open to every school that asks for them.
Archive
The Grey Library
The archive of e-content we have built over the years, from which our content writers and researchers work.
Research
Research Hub
Our researchers work continually on technology in education, gamification, history and interdisciplinary study, and write theses on what they find. What we learn flows back into every project.
Books
Materials Box
We write books for schools and science centres that ask for them: readers, coursebooks, assignments and slides, prepared by our specialists.
Curricula
Tailoring for Your Needs
On request we prepare a curriculum programme for a school, made to measure for its students and its aims.
Conferences
HMUN
Hindenburg Model United Nations: on request we organise MUN conferences for schools, and JMUN for younger students.
Hindenburg Competitions
On request we come to a school with juries of experts in each field and hold competitions in posters, drawing, story writing and poetry reading.
Posters
Hindenburg Poster Competition
Drawing
Hindenburg Artists Competition
Story writing
Hindenburg Story Writing Competition
Poetry reading
Hindenburg Poem Reading Competition
Language
Dungeons and Dialogues
A system of learning and play created together by our education scientists and English teachers. Students learn the language in role-playing sessions, where they speak because their character has to.
21st Century Skills
Our flagship · grades 5 to 12
Three electives, one platform.
The Great Wars, Entrepreneurship and International Relations, each a school year of 34 weeks in English or German, with the BRINK Library beside them. A student takes one a year and may change it the next; each school may have them tailored to its own needs, and every year ends in a great event.
Every year ends in a great event
Each elective closes its year with a finale for its best students.
The Great Wars
Rival parliaments
The best students form the parliaments of rival countries and play BRINK against one another, from the first vote to the last battle.
Entrepreneurship
Pitch day at a hotel
Students bring the project they built all year to a hotel and present it to our juries of award-winning women entrepreneurs.
International Relations
HMUN
The students at the top of the leaderboard meet at HMUN, our Model United Nations, held as a crisis.
Grades 5 to 12 · elective
BRINK: The Great Wars
Everything that makes up the skills of the 21st century came to light in the two Great Wars: leadership, negotiation, judging sources, keeping a society together. Over 34 weeks our students take history, geography, geopolitics, leadership and more – and learn English or German at their own level as they go.
Every week they govern a country in an online simulation and learn how a country is run. At the end of the year the best are chosen to meet: they form the parliaments of rival countries, middle school students in the First World War and high school and university students in the Second, and try to keep the peace of the world.
Nine branches, each taught by a figure from history
- HistoryHomerWith geography and geopolitics
- Philosophy and SociologyVoltaireHow societies think, rise and fall
- EconomicsAdam SmithMoney, work, trade and prices
- Diplomacy and NegotiationBenjamin FranklinTreaties, compromises, the negotiating table
- Critical ThinkingSocratesQuestions, sources and evidence
- LeadershipOtto von BismarckWith decision-making and communication
- Science and TechnologyLeonardo da VinciInventions and the people behind them
- LiteratureLeo TolstoyWith literacy and propaganda
- Democracy and Human RightsAbraham LincolnWith ethics
The curriculum is told by figures from history, each from his own perspective: every teacher reads his branch’s lessons aloud in a voice of his own and hands the students a further reading at the end of every lesson.
Grades and levels
| Grade | World | Language (CEFR) |
|---|---|---|
| K–4 | Animal Kingdom | English or German |
| 5–8 | The Great Wars (BRINK: The War to End War, 1914–1918), Entrepreneurship or International Relations | A1–A1+, A2–A2+, B1–B2 |
| 9–12 | The Great Wars (BRINK: The German Storm, 1936–1945), Entrepreneurship or International Relations | A1–A1+, A2–A2+, B1–B2 |
The teacher chooses the level for the class. Students open the platform with one click from their own school’s learning system, and leaderboards rank every class, every school and every school together.
Grades 5 to 12 · elective
BRINK: Entrepreneurship
The world our business-minded students enjoy most. Every week, while they learn English or German, they develop a business project of their own, and along the way they take economics, entrepreneurship, critical thinking and more.
At the finale, the students whose projects are liked best meet before a panel and present them.
Grades 5 to 12 · elective
BRINK: International Relations
For students who want to take their first steps towards a career in international relations and politics. They learn the history of the world after the Second World War and the craft of diplomacy in depth.
Every week they settle a problem in an online simulation, and at the finale the students with the most points meet for a modern simulation between nations.
Grades 5 to 12
BRINK Library
The library of our three electives: every week new readings at three levels, read aloud in English and opened as books on the student’s own desk.
Coming soonComing soon
BRINK Store
Soon our students will be able to shop at the BRINK Store: packs of portraits, frames, real badges, maps and BRINK t-shirts.
BRINK: Animal Kingdom
Kindergarten to grade 4: a village of its own for every year, with its library and, soon, Ironbeak's War.
Kindergarten to grade 4 · outside school
A village that grows with its children
A system of 34 weeks in which children grow into citizens while they learn English or German. They run a village of their own, listen to its animals, solve their problems and make the village the best it can be. The year ends in a competition: the students with the most points win prizes.
Animal Kingdom is learnt outside school, at home and with the family, at the child’s own pace.
Kindergarten to grade 4
The Animal Kingdom Library
An online library our content writers and educators are building: animated books read aloud, with games after every story. Every week the village’s library opens new books for its children.
Coming soon
Coming soon
Coming Soon! Animal Kingdom: Ironbeak's War
Emperor Ironbeak wants one crown over every land, and his army is already on the march. The children of the village face their greatest test: to stand together, to win friends among their neighbours and to keep their home free.
A new chapter of Animal Kingdom, told in English, with a village to defend and allies to win.
And more
More projects?
Our educators are always building something new. For more projects, get in touch!