Founders
Photo by Miško Stanišić: 2 August – Roma Genocide Remembrance Day commemoration in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, 2016.
Misko Stanisic, Director,
Member of the Serbian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – IHRA
Nevena Bajalica, Programme Manager,
Member of the Serbian delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance – IHRA
in a couple of words
Terraforming is an independent non-governmental and non-profit organisation from Novi Sad in Serbia founded in 2008, and with partners, contributors, associates and project activities all across Europe.
Terraforming develops educational methodologies and teaching materials, combining best practices in contemporary pedagogy with new-media technologies while facilitating multidisciplinary cross-sectoral international project cooperation and exchange.
Our story
In 1990’s Nevena Bajalica and Miško Stanišić left the war-torn Yugoslavia. Nevena emigrated to the Netherlands, while Miško managed to get out of Sarajevo and eventually ended up in Sweden as refugee. It wasn’t easy. During the first years Miško lived in refugee camps around Stockholm, while Nevena was trying to manage in Amsterdam squats. After several years, lots of efforts and hard work, things got better. Both managed to study, to find proper jobs, and managed to get their lives sorted out. Eventually both found their professional and personal interest in the fields of education and civic activism, and in topics related to human rights, war atrocities and crimes and its everlasting consequences, prejudeces, discrimination and xenophobia against various minorities, immigrants and “foreigners”. After decades spent in the Netherlands and Sweden respectively, both felt that their acquired knowledge, accumulated experiences and a unique overview of the ways, trends, needs and potentials both in Western Europe, Scandinavia and in Serbia, should be put in use for developing cooperation and exchange projects in the fields of education and culture, in order to bring together and contribute to all these societies they call “home”. Nevena and Miško met in 2008, and Terraforming was founded.
Nevena and Miško in 2009. during one of the first projects of just founded association Terraforming. Photo by Miško Stanišić
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