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Zeinep Ibrahim
Pomak (Bulgarian-speaking Muslim) from Breznitsa, who lived in Germany for 10 years and returned to Bulgaria

Anastasia Vitaljevna
Refugee from Ukraine. Left her hometown after the Russian invasion and moved to Bulgaria.

Anna Dlugosz
Between Poland, Occitania, and Elsewhere. The Language Lands of a Calandreta Student's Mother

Nazieh Khani
Born in Afghanistan, passed through Greece and now live in Germany

Biorni Lekka
Born in Albania and lives in Greece

Katya Dimitrova
Roma educational mediator in Sofia, working between school 106 and the Hristo Botev Roma neighbourhood.

Ilia Rajchev Iliev
Professional football player, educational mediator between school 75 and his home Roma neighborhood in Sofia.

Ilirida Musaraj
Born in Albania and lives in Greece

Mohamed Lamine
Born in Guinea and lives in Greece

Bojcho Kochev
Graduate student in biology and Roma educational mediator in the village of Karadjovo, Bulgaria.

Olena Voronina
Refugee from Ukraine. Left her hometown after careful consideration

The Jungle and the Republic
We are just people who want to live in peace

Benjamin T.O.
Born in Congo, passed through Greece and now lives in France

Ljubka Askova, Sevda Kirilova, Katya Dimova
Roma women in Sofia who dropped out of school and are now catching up at school 106

Shazieh Khani
Born in Afghanistan, passed through Greece and now live in Germany

Ljuba Temenuzhkova, Nadya Stanislavova
Roma women in Sofia who dropped out of school and are now catching up at school 106.

Rena Souli
Born in Albania and now lives in Greece

Marina Beghan
Refugee from Ukraine. Μember of a historic Bulgarian minority in Ukraine.

T.S.
Born in Afghanistan, passed through Greece and now lives in Germany

Jahanzib Sherzad
Born in Afghanistan, passed through Greece and now lives in Germany

Gergana Pehlivanska
Parent of a Calandreta student, midwife, Montpellier

Nassam alayna el hawa, Lebanon

Oblache le bialo, Bulgaria

Hampere hoqis , Armenia

Ghamed ayoonak, Syria

Ya zarif, Palestine

Na zi kanis sti monaxia, Greece

Penaber, Kurdistan

Neden geldim Istanbul’a, Turkey

Oi louli louli, Ukraine

Farda, Afghanistan

Ya rayah, Algeria

Jarnana, Albania

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To create your own path through the platform, it is crucial to start with the testimony videos of people with refugee and migration experiences. Their voices are essential to understanding “the others”, as engaging with them offers a powerful way to better understand society as a whole.

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At the end of each video, review the icon descriptions and explore the related materials.

On VOLARE you will also find suggested “learning pathways” through the testimonies and accompanying materials, which are not restrictive or exclusive. The VOLARE team encourages visitors to create their own pathway of understanding, according to their educational context and interests.

The VOLARE digital platform:

Designed for educators, university students and secondary school students.
Employs participatory ethnographic approaches, integrating testimony and multimodality as tools in the educational process.
Offers a living archive of videos, texts and multimodal resources on migration and refugee experiences.
Creates a space for listening to and understanding the experiences of migrants, refugees and members of minority groups, with the aim of being used within secondary and higher education courses.

It includes:

Video-testimonies from people with refugee and migrant backgrounds in Greece, Bulgaria and France. Each research team chose its own way of filming and framing the testimonies, engaging uniquely with each person.
Video-contributions from educators, legal experts, artists and activists working in the field, who offer their own perspectives on this encounter.
Each testimony is accompanied by sources of knowledge (articles, books, reports, etc.) and additional multimodal materials (films, artworks, museums, games, databases, etc.).
Twelve songs in different languages, selected and recorded exclusively for VOLARE.
Podcasts featuring a wide range of people connected to VOLARE’s themes.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Innovation Council and the Executive Agency (State Scholarship Foundation-IKY). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.