Terraforming Projects

Pasostar ando Prastape – Breaking into a Gallop

2025Ongoing

"Pasostar ando Prastape - Breaking into a Gallop: An International Incubator for Rethinking and Innovation in Education about the Genocide of the Roma during the Nazi Era

Funders

• International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA
• EVZ – Stiftung “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft”

Partners

• Terraforming
• Centropa - Center for Jewish 20th Century History
• Intercultural Institute Timișoara
• TENET Center for Social Transformations

Inclusive Remembrance – Holocaust Education and Minority Voices for Democratic Competencies

2024Ongoing

The project aims to support a more inclusive memory culture by developing pedagogical approaches and practical guidelines for involving local Jewish, Roma, and other communities whose voices are not adequately represented ...

Funders

• Swedish Institute

Partners

• Terraforming
• Swedish Holocaust Museum
• The Living History Forum
• Memorial Center "Staro Sajmište"
• The Memorial Park "Kragujevački Oktobar"
• The Jewish Youth Club of the Jewish Community of Belgrade
• Roma Editorial Board of RTV - The Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina
• National Association of Roma Journalists NARON
• History Department at the Faculty of Philosophy – University of Belgrade

UP2US: Mapping the understanding of contemporary antisemitism in Serbia, Croatia and Romania

2024Ongoing

The project aims to develop methodologies for mapping capacities for recognizing contemporary antisemitism among critical groups for shaping public attitudes on antisemitism in Serbia, Romania, and Croatia.

Funders

• Alfred Landecker Foundation

Partners

• Terraforming
• Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, ShoahLab - Laboratory for Holocaust Studies, University of Belgrade
• Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka
• Intercultural Institute Timișoara
• Center for Combating Antisemitism and Intolerance
• Center for Memory Culture
• Commissioner for the Protection of Equality
• Fundation Novi Sad European Capital of Culture
• Faculty of Media and Communication Singidunum University
• The Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies
• Decoding Antisemitism - Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA), Technical University Berlin
• TOLI - The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights

Facts not ficition

2024Ongoing

The project aims to develop tools and methodologies and empower history educators to work with students and youth groups on developing their own educational outreach, such as graphic novels, exhibitions, ...

Funders

• European Union - Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV)

Partners

• Terraforming
• Arolsen Archives - International Center on Nazi Persecution
• Intercultural Institute Timișoara
• EuroClio - European Association of History Educators

ABC on antisemitism

2024 - 2024Completed

"ABC on Antisemitism" is a simple online source of the most important facts necessary for understanding the basics of contemporary antisemitism in both the international and Serbian context, supported through ...

Funders

• German Federal Foreign Office
• The European Practitioners Network against Antisemitism EPNA

Partners

• Terraforming
• Center for Memory Culture

MILAGRO – Migrants and Local Communities Actively Growing Together for an Inclusive Society

2024Ongoing

The project aim to initiate activities, create tools and opportunities for building intercultural dialogue between the local population and migrants, and develop democratic competencies that will imply positive and long-lasting ...

Funders

• European Union - Europe for Citizens Programme - European Remembrance (EACEA)

Partners

• Terraforming
• Nuova Associazione Culturale Ulisse
• University Library "Svetozar Maković"

CARE: Combating Holocaust Denial and Distortion through Active Citizenship, Remembrance, and Education

Ongoing

The aim of the project is to develop a network of educators and young activists of the culture of remembrance, who will be involved in preventing and combating Holocaust denial ...

Funders

• European Union - Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV)

Partners

• Terraforming
• Intercultural Institute Timișoara
• Documenta
• The Jewish Museum of Greece
• Fondazione Centro Di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC - Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center
• International Commission for the Assessment of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania
• Big Picture
• TOLI - The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights

An educational graphic novel about the Novi Sad Raid and deportation of the Jews of Bačka

2023 - 2024Completed

We produced several educational resources about the Holocaust events in Novi Sad and the Bačka region of Serbia using the graphic novel language. This was achieved through the active participation ...

Funders

• With assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, Supported by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, and by the German Federal Ministry of Finance
• The Ministry of Culture of the Republic Serbia

Partners

• Terraforming

ESTER – Teaching material and educational concept

2016Ongoing

Ester graphic novels are a teaching material, its most important part being a series of dramatized stories about the Jewish victims killed in the Jewish Camp at Sajmište (Judenlager Semlin) ...

Funders

Partners

• Terraforming
• The Archives of Vojvodina

Active Remembrance – Holocaust Education for Democratic Competencies

2023 - 2023Completed

During the 4 months between September and December 2023, Swedish and Serbian partners met online to discuss the challenges we face in contemporary memorialization, education, and understanding of the Holocaust ...

Funders

• Swedish Institute

Partners

• Terraforming
• Swedish Holocaust Museum
• The Living History Forum
• Memorial Center "Staro Sajmište"
• The Memorial Park "Kragujevački Oktobar"
• History Department at the Faculty of Philosophy – University of Belgrade
• The Jewish Community of Novi Sad
• Roma Editorial Board of RTV - The Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina

ESTER: Young People Remember

2020 - 2022Completed

Through the project “Ester: Young People Remember” we are enabling young people to use creativity and the creative language of graphic novels to preserve, tell, spread, promote and learn about ...

Funders

• EVZ – Stiftung “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft”

Partners

• Terraforming
• Kreuzberger Initiative gegen Antisemitismus KIgA e.V.

MEMACT

2020 - 2022Completed

MemAct! evaluates, develops and implements best practices participatory methods to learn about the Holocaust. MemAct! brings together educators, researchers and activists from different fields of Holocaust learning, civic education and ...

Funders

Partners

• Terraforming
• Museen der Stadt Linz
• Verein Schloss Hartheim
• Fundacja Galicia Jewish Krakow Heritage Institute
• Padagogische Hochschule Oberosterreich
• Miteinander - Netzwerk fur Demokratie und Wltoffenheit in Magdeburg

HANNAH

2020 - 2022Completed

The HANNAH project focuses on the promotion of Jewish history, the enhancement of Shoah remembrance and the fight against Antisemitism in Germany, Greece, Serbia and Poland. through capacity-building training, awareness ...

Funders

• European Union - Europe for Citizens Programme - European Remembrance (EACEA)

Partners

• Terraforming
• Jugend - Kulturprojekt EV DE
• Centropa - Center for Jewish 20th Century History
• The Jewish Museum of Greece
• READ-LAB Research Innovation and Development Lab
• Fundacja Galicia Jewish Krakow Heritage Institute

TAS – THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS – MIGRATION LABS

2020 - 2021Completed

TAS Labs, debates and roundtables will analyse historical experiences, narratives, misconceptions and stereotypes relating to migrants and refugees, xenophobic discourse, hate speech and anti-immigration propaganda. We will be looking into ...

Funders

• European Union - Europe for Citizens Programme - European Remembrance (EACEA)

Partners

• Terraforming
• ACTA Center
• COPE Cooperazione Paesi Emergenti
• IMVF Instituto Marques de Valle Flor
• Vocal Europe

THE HOLOCAUST, EUROPEAN VALUES AND LOCAL HISTORY

2020 - 2022Completed

The project “The Holocaust, European Values and Local History” aims to develop, pilot and introduce sustainable methodologies and tools for an innovative approach in archival pedagogy, particularly in smaller local ...

Funders

• International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA
• International Visegrad Fund
• The Ministry of Culture of the Republic Serbia

Partners

• Terraforming
• The Archives of Vojvodina
• Museum of Jewish Culture in Bratislava
• The National Archives of Hungary
• Holocaust Memorial Center of Budapest
• Foundation Humanity in Action Poland
• Jewish Museum of Prague
• The Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance DOW
• The Historical Archive of the City of Novi Sad
• The Historical Archive of Sombor
• The Historical Archive of Subotica
• The Jewish Community of Novi Sad
• Roma Editorial Board of RTV - The Public Broadcasting Service of Vojvodina
• Fundation Novi Sad European Capital of Culture
• UDI Euroclio

THE EUROPEAN LIBRARY PLATFORM FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION

2017 - 2019Completed

The project aims to create a large-scale European library network aiming to develop the framework for a collaborative platform of international resources for Holocaust education – contributing educational content to ...

Funders

• International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA
• The National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia

Partners

• Terraforming
• Anne Frank House
• Holocaust Memorial Centre of the Jews of Macedonia
• National Library of Serbia

LIBRARIANS AND ARCHIVISTS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING ABOUT THE HOLOCAUST

2017 - 2018Completed

With aim to empower Serbian archivists and librarians to take a more active role as multipliers in teaching and learning about the Holocaust, Terraforming is organizing a series of activities ...

Funders

Partners

• Terraforming

READING AND WRITING WITH ANNE FRANK IN SERBIA

2015 - 2021Completed

In cooperation with the Anne Frank House Amsterdam, Terraforming translated the internationally acclaimed exhibition “Reading and Writing with Anne Frank” and adopted the educational methodologies around it for use in ...

Funders

• Anne Frank House

Partners

• Terraforming
• Anne Frank House

ESCALATING INTO HOLOCAUST

2015 - 2017Completed

Focusing on the victims of the concentration camp at Sajmište – a death camp for Jewish women and children from German occupied Serbia, the project expands the view from local ...

Funders

• European Union - Europe for Citizens Programme - European Remembrance (EACEA)

Partners

• Terraforming
• Historical Archives of Belgrade
• Center for Holocaust Research and Education CHRE
• Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies NIOD
• Department of Cultural Studies University of Rijeka

NEW ALLIANCE IN INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM

2015 - 2015Completed

Establishing new alliances in investigative journalism between journalists and Roma communities in order to uncover corruption and misconduct in local public management and to contribute to stronger rights and recognition ...

Funders

• Swedish Institute

Partners

• Terraforming
• Center for education, ecology, media and public relation studies CEES

THE PORAJMOS / SAMUDARIPEN AND THE ROMA IDENTITY

2014 - 2017Completed

A new-media series about causes and consequences of the Roma genocide in WWII in 12 European regions, with a particular focus on Roma identity building and self-empowerment, in cooperation with ...

Funders

• International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA
• Open Society Initiative for Europe OSIFE

Partners

• Terraforming
• Radio La Benevolencija HTF
• Radio Patrin
• ternYpe

THE DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE

2014 - 2015Completed

The project brought a new pedagogical format for libraries to contribute to the Holocaust education, giving the original pedagogical content to the memorial day commemorations. The expert team developed new ...

Funders

• International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance IHRA
• Anne Frank House

Partners

• Terraforming
• Anne Frank House
• National Library of Serbia

THE FUTURE IS NOW

2012 - 2012Completed

Introducing social media to local pedagogues (school teachers) and local NGOs in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and promoting it as an important and indispensable tool in work with youth, ...

Funders

• Swedish Institute

Partners

• Terraforming
• Odisej

Fortune Tellers Future

2011 - 2012Completed

A creative cooperation between Swedish artists groups, Serbian Roma-theatre, and local Roma communities, with aim to empower and inspire young Roma not to drop out from schools, but to continue ...

Funders

• Swedish Institute

Partners

• Terraforming