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.

Parviz's transition story
Parviz's transition story

We moved for your own sake. I´m afraid especially in the night in the old house alone. It was really hard to leave the family. I missed my mother, brother, grandmother, uncle and aunt. We gave our friends an album and took a picture together and we cried. My friend gave me a ring.

Parviz's transition story

Hello!

From the beginning we searched for help from the UN to move from Iran. I have no father. It´s only me, my mother, my brother, uncle and my grandmother. For 7 years my mother struggled to move from Iran and one day we got a letter and the letter said that we were going to leave for Sweden within a month. We told everyone and packed our bags. We packed down a picture of my grandmother. Mom packed a dress and skirt and shorts and tools that they needed.We bought airplane tickets and said goodbye to everyone. We went via Turkey to Sweden and we got to go to Linköping where we met a woman called Pouran. We moved to our apartment and after a couple of weeks we went to school. Life without dad is very tough and my biggest wish is to find him.

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