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.

Zio, how did I get to Germany

My name is Zio, I come from Indonesia. My father is a soldier and the colleagues of my father offered him to come to Germany and my father said o.k.

But in order to do so, my parents had to do a test. At the time, my parents had to study every day and on the 17 October 2018 my parents passed the test. After that I had to learn German every day from 9am to 3pm. I was afraid of going to Germany then, because my German was very bad. Indonesia and Germany are not that different, the difference is that it is very hot in Indonesia. In Indonesia, it is 28 degrees every day, but in Germany there are 4 seasons and there is snow also. But in Germany there is no beach. In Indonesia there are many beaches. The difference between Indonesian and German schools is that German schools have too many public holidays. I love Indonesia and Germany!

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