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.

Nowadays, many people leave to seek for a better life or because there is war in their homeland. If I left, I would take my speaker with me, to listen to songs of my homeland, to remember my country (e.g. the song “Ksefantoma stin Kriti” [Partying in Crete]). Moreover, I would take the keys to my house, in order to remember my house. I would also take a handful of soil from my village, to plant in this soil when I arrived. Lastly, I would get my karate equipment, to remember my karate school and my teammates.