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Misko Stanisic, Director

As director and co-founder of Terraforming, a Novi Sad-based NGO, Miško Stanišić is the facilitator and creative mind behind its long-term strategies and project activities to promote and improve teaching and learning about the Holocaust, counter antisemitism and antigypsyism, and address Holocaust distortion and the abuse of history for nationalist propaganda. In this work, he targets memory professionals, archivists, librarians, museum workers, policymakers, teachers, and students in Serbia and internationally.

During more than 15 years in memorialization and education, Miško developed numerous resources, exhibitions, training courses, and internationally acclaimed projects. Among others, he is the author of “The International Library Platform for Holocaust Education,” awarded the Yehuda Bauer Grant by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA, “Tajsa” – a series of video podcasts about the persecution of the Roma communities around Europe, and “ABC on Antisemitism” the first online resource about contemporary antisemitism in Serbia for journalists, educators, and other actors in memory culture.

Miško is the founder and president of the Center for Combating Antisemitism and Intolerance CBA. He is the co-initiator and chairman of the “Remembering Hilda Dajč Award​”. As a member of the delegation of the Republic of Serbia to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA, he participates in the Education Working Group and Committee for the Genocide of the Roma. Miško chaired the IHRA expert team in developing “Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Persecution and Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era” from 2022 until its adoption in December 2024.

Miško was a member of the European Network for Countering Antisemitism Through Education (ENCATE) steering committee and is currently a spokesperson for the European Practitioners Network Against Antisemitism (EPNA).

Miško Stanišić was born in 1966 in Sarajevo, former Yugoslavia. As a refugee from the civil war in Yugoslavia, he came to Stockholm, Sweden, in 1993. He has been based in Amsterdam since 2012. In 2019, he moved to Novi Sad, Serbia, where he is now permanently based. Misko studied General Law at Sarajevo University and Digital Media and Pedagogy in Stockholm.

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Nevena Bajalica, Programme Manager

in a couple of words

Terraforming is an independent non-governmental and non-profit organization from Novi Sad in Serbia founded in 2008, 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.

Mission Statement

Mission

Terraforming promotes human rights, diversity, and tolerance, combating discrimination, intolerance, antisemitism, antiziganism, and all forms of xenophobia while debunking bias, myths, prejudice, and stereotypes. Terraforming designs training programs, facilitate the international exchange of experiences and best practices, and produces various public outreach activities to empower multipliers such as teachers, librarians, archivists, museum workers, NGO activists, and to inform local communities, decisions, and policymakers, as well as other stakeholders.

To and from Serbia

Terraforming facilitates cooperation and exchange between institutional partners from Serbia with relevant partners around Europe and around the World. In Serbia, Terraforming promotes education about the Holocaust, a stronger culture of remembrance, protection of endangered authentic Holocaust sites, and contributes to addressing distortion and manipulation of history. On the other side, internationally, Terraforming contributes to raising awareness and better knowledge about Serbian history and culture, available archival materials, research, achievements, and ideas of experts and creators from Serbia.

Pedagogical Approach

Terraforming strives to follow the educational guidelines of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), the educational philosophy of the International School for Holocaust Studies Yad Vashem, UNESCO recommendations on education about the Holocaust, ODIHR and UNESCO guidelines for educators and policymakers on addressing antisemitism, ODIHR recommendations and guidelines for education about Human Rights and countering various forms of intolerance and discrimination, as well as the Council of Europe Charter on Education for Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights Education EDC/HRE.

Expertise

Terraforming has longstanding expertise in developing and writing grant proposals with a proven track record of successful applications to major international funding institutions. With its large network among cultural and educational institutions, scholars, experts, NGOs, and other stakeholders around Europe, Terraforming sets up cross-sectoral international project cooperations and exchanges.

Administrative and registration data

LEGAL NAME

English: Terraforming
Serbian: Тераформинг

OFFICIAL ADDRESS (Business Postal Address)

Balzakova 16
21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

VISITING ADDRESS (Novi Sad Office)

Ise Bajića 6 / 1
21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

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LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES

Milenko Stanišić
Nevena Bajalica
E-mail: Contact Form

REGISTRATION DATA

Legal Status: Non-profit association (NGO)
Registration (Matični br.): 28024410
Registration date: 04.07.2010
Tax Registration (PIB): 106791153

INTERNATIONAL ID DATA

(EU) PIC: 932179022
(EU) OID: E10254261
(EU) PADOR: RS-2013-BIL-1704863652

DUNS: 538216634
NCAGE: A0VLS
(sam.gov) UEI: GZL4SMK3DLD8

BANK ACCOUNT

ACCOUNT: 170-30014538000-71 (for RSD payments)
IBAN: RS35170003001453800168 (for EURO payments)
IBAN: RS35170003001453801332 (for USD payments)
 SWIFT: BACXRSBG
BANK: Unicredit Bank Serbia JSC
ADDRESS: Rajićeva 27, Beograd 11000, Serbia

DOCUMENTS

2023 Statute (Serbian) + Statute (English)

Proof of Registration (Serbian & English)

Tax Registration (Serbian & English)

REGISTER OF VOLUNTEER PROGRAMS

Registration nr. 16/2020 in The Records of the Organizers of Volunteer Programs by The Ministry of Labor, Employment, and Social Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, from December 18, 2020.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

The Financial Statements are public and available online on the Serbian Business Registers Agency SBRA (Agencija za privredne registre APR) website, in the Register of Financial Statements – in line with the Law on Accounting of the Republic Serbia.

Staff Members

Ljiljana Ćumura

Ljiljana Ćumura holds a master’s degree in Sociology from the University of Novi Sad in Serbia. She further studied peace education and conflict management, mediation, project management and youth & community development in Germany, UK, Sweden, Poland and Malta. Her research interests focus is on participatory learning and action, restorative practice, various aspects of education and teaching methodologies, as well on migrations. With more than 20 years of experience in the international non-profit NGO sector, and several awards for her work in the fields of journalism, art, youth work, victimology and education, Ljiljana is highly skilled project manager.

Steering Committee

Milan Koljanin

Historian, Head of the Department for Collecting and Processing of Materials, Research, Library, and Archives of the Memorial Center “Staro Sajmište,” long-term senior associate at the Institute for Contemporary History in Belgrade, member of the delegation of the Republic of Serbia to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA.

Head of the Scientific Center at the Belgrade University Library. Interest and expertise: Literature Science, Digital Humanities, Cultural Theory, Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Competencies.

Julia Bala

Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist. Interest and expertise: specialized in intergenerational consequences of trauma, the influence of forced migration on the parent-child relationship, and trauma in refugee children and families.

Policy Documents

Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy

Terraforming is committed to encouraging gender equality, diversity, and inclusion and eliminating discrimination. The Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Policy is made to provide guidance and rules of conduct for our members, leadership, employees, volunteers, contributors, and associates with the aim to be genuinely representative of all sections of society and for each member, employee, and volunteer to feel respected and able to give their best.

Terraforming is committed to ensuring that gender perspectives and attention to the goal of gender equality are central to all activities – organization development, policy development, research, advocacy, dialogue, resource allocation, procurement, planning, implementation, and monitoring of our programs and projects.

Child Protection Policy

Terraforming is committed to providing and maintaining a caring learning environment and preventing and addressing child abuse and exploitation. We strongly condemn all forms of child abuse and exploitation.

Terraforming is committed to presenting this policy, and providing mechanisms for our board members, co-workers, employees, representatives, volunteers, and all other participants in our activities to raise awareness, aid prevention, encourage reporting, and ease response to any form and any case of proven, alleged or attempted abuse within our field of function and influence according to its nature.

Following the Council of Europe Strategy for the Rights of the Child, The European Convention on Human Rights, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), The National Strategy for Protection of Children and Prevention from Violence of the Republic of Serbia, General and Special Protocol for Protection of Children and Students from Violence, Neglect, and Abuse in Educational Institutions, developed by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Serbia, Terraforming developed its own Child Protection Policy.

Anti-corruption Policy and Procurement Routines

To secure the highest professional and ethical standards in its work and to contribute prevention of corruption, Terraforming will continuously work on strengthening its organizational culture and improving its working methods and routines. Following the Transparency International definitions and recommendations on countering and reporting corruption, Terraforming developed its own Anti-corruption Policy and Procurement Routines.