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.

Not many things have changed in my life, but the one I remember most intensely was when I moved. I didn’t want to leave the village, because I would leave my friends behind. But that was what I had to do. I didn’t want it at all. I had to make new friends and go to a new school. It was something I would never want to do. My mind was very confused ... this transition changed my entire life.

(he describes how they moved)

Night was falling, and I decided to toast a sandwich and go to my room. It was getting late in the evening and my parents didn’t even say a word. The door to their room was closed. I went back to my room and I couldn’t sleep, as whenever I tried to sleep, nightmares would wake me up.