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.

Kostas, My Germany

My parents and I moved to Germany. We left our country because of a crisis in Greece. My mother is 44 years old and works as a nurse. My father is 48 years old and he is a pharmacist assistant. We thought things would be harder but it was actually quite easy. Our relatives over here helped us a lot. When I arrived here unfortunately I got sick. I had to have kidney surgery at a hospital. Everything went well and we are happy. People over here are very friendly and nice. Berlin is a pretty city and has a lot of attractions. I went to pre-school and now I’m attending the European school “Athene”. I like the school very much and the teachers also. I have many friends. I’m learning German, Greek and English. I enjoy life here and my family is content. But I do miss my home country. I often go there in school holidays. Over there we have a lot of sun and ocean. I miss Greece.

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