The COMMIX project aims to:

• Combat low levels of literacy
• Engage at-risk students in literacies and academic learning
• Empower learners to become creators of their own stories (individually or collaboratively)
• Provide innovative pedagogical methods towards the use of comics and digital storytelling in education
• Empower stakeholders to use innovative ICT-based educational practices in enhancing young people’s reading attitudes
• Facilitate the use of comics in education by building communities through the use of Web 2.0 technologies
• Implement ways in which technology can support the use of comics for diverse readers.