BEACON Comic Book

The team behind EUKI project BEACON is excited to announce the launch of the Climate Change Challenge comic. After two years in the making, the book is now available in English and German under the name #KlimawandelChallenge. With this book the BEACON team seeks to convey the spirit of European collaboration and exchange on climate change to a wider audience of school children and adults alike. We hope this book will encourage readers to get to know other European realities and climate action efforts and thereby make a small contribution to the transition to a climate neutral world.
Climate Change Challenge Cover; (c) Photo: Verlagshaus Jacoby & Stuart, Berlin
I enjoyed very much the comic book that has been one of the outputs of the BEACON project. Jochen Flasbarth – State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
The book follows characters Sofia and her younger brother Gabriel from their home in Portugal on a train journey across Europe. On this trip Sofia seeks to gather information and ideas for a game that she is developing about climate change. Her brother is along for the ride to have fun and explore. They come across different landscapes, countries, and people on their trip, and learn how communities across Europe are coming together to fight climate change. Their first-hand experiences reinforce their understanding that climate change is complex and real, but that individuals, communities and cities can make a big difference in mitigating and adapting to it. In the end Sofia knows how her game must work, not as a competition but as a cooperative game, because climate change is a challenge for each and every one of us, and only together are we able to tackle it.
An overview of Sofia and Gabriel’s travels across Europe from the Climate Change Challenge; © Photo: Verlagshaus Jacoby Stuart, Berlin
On their trip the siblings learn about energy efficiency in Paris; forest fires in Greece and Portugal; draughts and water scarcity in central Europe; how students are learning about energy consumption in Romanian schools; the integration of renewable energies in Germany and Portugal and much more.
Climate change is a common challenge; not only in Sofia’s board game; Grafik: © Verlagshaus Jacoby & Stuart, Berlin
BEACON team members Kristen Brand, Moritz Schäfer, Gil Penha-Lopes and Sarah Gül made this comic book a reality through the BEACON project. The story of Sofia and Gabriel was created and brought to life by author Bruno Pinto, Illustrator Quico Nogueira and colorist Nuno Duarte.
The German version of the book is available for purchase wherever books are sold in Germany. You can also order a copy directly from the publisher Verlagshaus Jacoby & Stuart here.
A PDF version of book can be downloaded in Bulgarian, Czech, and Polish. For the Greek version of the book click here, for the Portuguese version here and for the Romanian version here.
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English Version
German Version
Bulgarian Version
Czech Version
Polish Version
You can purchase a hardback of the German comic book here.