ERCcOMICS is the new science communication tool of European research! The European Research Council (ERC) is a public body for funding of scientific and technological research conducted within the European Union. ERCcOMICS is a creative and ambitious project that exploits the power of visual storytelling to innovate the way European science is communicated. 16 comics are waiting for you in the next four years. Every year four new comics of 10 chapters are published since 2017.
Max Order
Max Order is a comic about Flow Machines, an artificial intelligence project developing computational models of style and implementing authoring tools to assist musicians and writers to create. Read more…
… and the Invisible
The ambition of Professor Leonhardt’s ERC- funded research is to trace the connections between abstract theoretical concepts and drawn from geometry and relativity, to make invisibility science real! Read more…
Beauty
BEAUTY, an ERC project led by Professor Giselinde Kuipers, studies how beauty standards are socially shaped. Read more…
Treeclimbers
Tropical forests play an essential role in the global carbon cycle – a well-known fact. Something that not many people know, however, is that lianas are key components of these forests, and furthermore, they have been increasing in abundance and biomass over the last two decades, but nobody knows why. Read more…