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 life as a little child. As a little child I lived with dad, mom, grandmother and grandfather and my siblings and friends. We live in Kurdistan in Iran. The house was small. We had planted outside. We had planted seeds, fruits and vegetables. I liked Kurdistan.

On the way to an unknown country. I was 8 years old. I don´t remember everything. At first we travelled over a big ocean in a small boat. Then we travelled in the trunk in the car afterwards we went to several countries. I thought it was scary and I was very afraid. On the way to an unknown country. First we walked on a rail and there were many people. I and my mother were stepped on the head and leg. Then the police told us to take another way that were easier for children. We were lucky. Everybody were afraid that the police should fool on us and arrest us, but they were very nice. We came to Sweden. We arrived to resecentrum in Linköping. A relative come and picked us up. Their house were big. We could rest ourselves well.

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