Hidden Heroes
of Europe
EU-funded projects · real stories

Every project has a hidden hero.

Behind each EU-funded project there are people solving a real problem. We turn every project into a comic-book superhero, drawn in the clean-line tradition of European comics, and tell its story, with every figure linked to its official source.

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Hero files

3 heroes
Atlantic Sentinel, a masked hero in a teal field jacket and coral cape, holds up a tablet showing a seismograph on a volcanic Atlantic coast while villagers check alerts on their phones.AI illustration

Atlantic Sentinel

AGEO · Platform for Atlantic Geohazard Risk Management

Turns citizens across the Atlantic coast into an early-warning network for landslides, floods, rockfalls and earthquakes.

ERDFClimate & natural hazards5 countries
Pixel Shield, a masked hero in a mustard hoodie and teal cape, leaps along a glowing hopscotch grid rising from a tablet, blocking a phishing hook, an angry speech bubble and a fake newspaper with his shield while smiling students watch.AI illustration

Pixel Shield

RAYUELA · Empowering and Educating Young People for the Internet by Playing

A video game that teaches young people to recognise online grooming, cyberbullying, fake news and phishing, by playing.

Horizon 2020Security & cybercrime9 countries
Captain Connect, a Black woman hero in a teal mask, mustard jacket and coral cape, holds a laptop and helps a young man step onto a glowing bridge of code linking an African city to a Baltic old town, where a diverse team of developers works together.AI illustration

Captain Connect

Digital Explorers · Tech talent and knowledge exchange between the Baltic States and partner countries

Connects young tech professionals from Nigeria, Kenya, Armenia and Iraq with companies in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, through training, hackathons, internships and jobs.

AMIFMigration & digital skills7 countries