Europe Direct Information Centre of Komotini for promoting multilingualism and language learning and in the framework of “European Day of Languages” launched in July 2008 the project entitled “EU ComiCrossing”.The project, which is constantly enriched, is seeking comic covers of all Member States of the European Union which will then be used to generate an exhibition accompanied by specially designed activity sheets to discover similarities and differences between European languages for both young and elder visitors.
The ambition of the project is to be hosted in as many places as possible throughout Europe and to receive attention from the majority of the citizens in an effort to promote multilingualism, the understanding of language families and language learning.
The success of this project depends on the cooperation with the Representations of European Commission in member states and especially the Representation of European Commission in Greece and the Europe Direct Network.
Since now the project “EU ComiCrossing” has:
- 123 covers (99 in A4 size and 24 in A3 size) from 22 Member States (Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Estonia, Finland, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Finland)
- 27 cards with typical elements (traditional food, clothing, inventions, etc.) and the greeting "Hello" in each member state of EU
- 25 cards with the languages of European Union