The aim of this project was to bring together the expertise of a dozen scientific teaching institutions and research groups, as well as artists specialising in the use of comics to communicate science, to co-create a series of eight digital comics. The series is based on major themes chosen by the collective to help build a scientific culture for all citizens. For each comic episode, the intention is to bring out the pupils' initial conceptions of the subject, to pose the scientific problem and to initiate class work to build up the concepts involved. For each subject, an associated teaching pack has been developed, enabling teachers to engage their pupils in the construction of the scientific concepts involved. The comic strip series and its resources have been designed using a didactic engineering methodology, taking into account the results of didactic research into pupils' difficulties and existing didactic approaches.
This project aims to provide science teachers with original and motivating teaching resources on science, in particular on climate, energy and biodiversity. The need for resources on these subjects stems from the fact that they have very recently been introduced or reinforced in European science programmes. This common context has motivated the implementation of our project at a transnational level, so that the resources produced will be useful to the entire European teaching community, and beyond. In recent years, a major international effort has been devoted to producing resources on these subjects. Most of these projects focus on education about their impacts and the actions needed to mitigate and adapt to them. In addition to these essential approaches, our project aims to develop educational resources that focus on the scientific foundations at the heart of these issues. The underlying idea is that understanding the conceptual bases of climate, energy and biodiversity is a fundamental key to citizenship education, enabling pupils to gain confidence in what scientists say and to develop their critical faculties.