The 1st Panhellenic School Map Competition “Refugee Paths – Mapping refugee stories 100 years after 1922” was implemented during the 2021-2022 school year, after a relevant approval from the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe. 

The scope of the Competition was to record the personal stories of the refugees and to display their route through the use of digital maps.

Under their teachers’ guidance, students searched their family and broader environment for archival material, personal stories and testimonies of the refugees of 1922, who were forced to leave their ancestral homes and settled as refugees in Greece.

After being trained by Spotin in digital mapping tools and geo-storytelling software- provided to schools free of charge upon request- they recorded and narrated each route as a storymap, accompanied by rich audiovisual material and narratives, thus composing a digital timeline of each path.

Participants: Teachers and students from the 6^th grade of Primary schools and all grades of Secondary and High schools in Greece and abroad.