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.

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.

Partners

Who we are

News

Multiplier event in Cyprus

Multiplier event in Athens, EKPA

Multiplier Event in Rethymno, Crete

Multiplier Event in Italy

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 is Sarah and I come from Lebanon together with my family. I like my name very much.

I came to Sweden and I thought it was a beautiful country.

What scared me most was when the airplane took off. I was happy when I arrived in Sweden and met my cousins who came and met us at the airport. I miss my grandmothers, uncles and aunts in Lebanon. I liked Sweden very much, but I miss my country Lebanon.

When I arrived in Sweden I ran to my daddy who came with the boat and I hugged him.

Than I have told you everything about my beautiful life. My name refers to beauty and hope.

My dad worked as a chef in a restaurant in Lebanon mom worked in a clothing store. I moved here because my dad was living.

I was most afraid to fly. It was really hard leave my friends and relatives but we promised each other to keep in touch all the time. What we missed most of all was dad. We brought our clothes with us and I brought a teddy bear as I´ve had since I was little. Through the experience of moving we got more courageous, we dare to go to town without being able to speak the language and try to communicate with others.

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Project Number: [2017-1-EL01-KA201-036197] Privacy Policy