BACKPACK ID

Bridging languages and memories to foster multiple identities: "Never leave your backpack behind!"

About the project

BACKPACK ID is an innovative intervention for promoting the inclusion of refugee children at school in 4 European countries (Greece and Italy, Germany and Sweden), which are met with acute and very diverse challenges by the ongoing refugee crisis. Informed by these differences, the present approach on social inclusion advances a common account of social inclusion challenges; it sees the social inclusion of refugee children as a function of addressing the needs and perspectives of those children and their families, and local communities and stakeholders, while affirming common European values.

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Outputs

Backpack ID using a bottom-up participatory method produced the following outputs in order to address social inclusion interpersonal and intergroup understanding in the school environment.

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Partners

Who we are

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Contact

The project is now closed. If you would like to request additional information about the project, you can contact the project coordinator here.

My name’s Miriam and I’m 12 years old.

My school:
I attend the school Galaverna in Collecchio. My class is the 2B, I like our group.

My family comes from:
I’ve been living in Gaiano for ten years because I moved from Tarsogno, the place where I was born, when I was 2 years old. When the school finishes, in June, me and my brother, or sometimes even without him, go to Tarsogno. I have a brother called Davide, who is now in Russia for studying, and a sister, Francesca.

My comfort corner:
My comfort corner is a river called Lubiana, I go there to think, and during the summer it often happens.

When I was a child:
When I was a child I was shy with the people I didn’t know, but with my parents I was speaking a lot. My sister and me were very naughty together! My brother made me discover most of my passions: reading, watching TV series, playing social games. My father made me discover music and I shared all my passions with my mom. When I go to the mountains, in Tarsogno, it’s usual for me to play traditional card games with my grandparents and with my parents too.

Now i'm a girl:
I don’t feel so different from when I was a child, even if my mother now says I’m a responsible girl. Music is still for me a great passion, I like many music types but I prefer classical songs. Books are my passion and I like reading, in fact my favourite shops are the bookshops, my favourite genres are horror and fantasy, like Harry Potter.

In my backpack you can find:
My favourite song: ‘Lucy in the sky with diamonds’, and my talisman, a necklace which my American cousins gave me as a present when I was born.

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