Athens' workshops

1st meeting Tour in ACL

The first meeting took place on Monday, March 10, 2025, and included a visit and tour of the Athens Comics Library for the students participating in the activity.

There, Olia Dakogianni, a special collaborator of the Library, spoke to us about the history, types, and characteristics of comics on an international level. The participants got to know each other and exchanged their experiences and knowledge of comics to date, while also having the opportunity to experiment by sketching another member of the group.

The participants were then divided into groups and began exchanging ideas on the theme of the comics they would design as part of the program. At the end of the visit, a representative from each group presented the themes and ideas that had been discussed to everyone.

1st Workshop

At the first workshop held on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, at the school, Korina Defteraiou (Web2Learn) briefly presented the European Bold project and the objectives of this specific action in Athens to the participants.

The pupils and students were divided into five groups and discussed their ideas to decide on their group’s theme and the story they would depict in the upcoming comic workshops. Olia Dakogianni presented the key elements that a comic should include: characters, place, time, and plot.

Based on these, the teams developed their own comic book plans, while the themes they chose highlighted social and current issues, funny stories of contrasts, and subversive events, with imagination playing a leading role. At the end of the workshop, a representative from each team presented the progress of their team’s work to the other teams.

2nd Workshop

The second workshop took place on Friday, March 28, 2025. The members of each team divided up their tasks and, under the guidance of Olia Dakogianni, began designing the characters and frames for their comics. At the end of the workshop, a representative from each team presented the progress of their team’s work.

3rd Workshop

In the third workshop, held on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, Stefania Oikonomou from Web2Learn presented to participants the Bold initiative, which is being implemented in parallel in Thessaloniki with the aim of empowering deaf and hard-of-hearing citizens through their collaboration with hearing students to create accessible videos in sign language on health.

The participants then wrote introductory texts with the title of their comic and a brief description of it. They proceeded to design the comics and, at the end, a representative from each team presented the progress of the team’s work.

4th Workshop

In the final workshop held on April 29, 2025, the teams completed their comics and each team presented their finished comic to the other teams.

Participants shared their experiences from participating in the action and renewed their appointment for a final meeting to distribute the printed booklet created with the comics of all groups from Web2Learn to all participants. It is also available in digital format here.