TPO Foundation, in cooperation with a group of intellectuals and activists, initiates the Program for Interdisciplinary Learning and Research (PILAR), which focuses on affirmation of interdisciplinary approach in methods of learning and research in all segments of bh. society.

The aim of this kind of approach is a creation of public welfare which has been systematically demolished over 20 years. It is necessary to ensure valuable knowledge, skills, and competencies which qualify people to improve both their private lives and public welfare through social engagement of all categories of population in order to use human capital and resources, especially of the youth, in the best possible manner. The important step in that process is to annihilate false division between the academy and community and secure an equal approach to education for all. In this kind of approach, we are gathering all existing platforms and initiatives interested in collective work on public welfare, through the following program themes:

• Politics of memory and creation of social solidarity;
• Research of trauma in everyday life;
• Cultural production and evidence of trauma.

The aims of this program are the following:

• promotion of culture of peace and coexistence;
• establishment of alternatives to mithologization, , and denial of traumatic past;
• healing traumas and promotion of solidarity, freedom, and equality in the society.

The aims of the program are to be achieved through the following activities:

• Co-operation between researchers and activists in BiH, region, and the world through the creation of new models of comparative, interdisciplinary learning and education, as well as developing programs in the area of culture, history, psychosocial protection and development;
• Development of interdisciplinary, educational, and research projects which will enable young people to heal their own traumas, to critically overview on their politics of memory, and to work on the establishment of culture of peace, dialogue, and coexistence;
• Development of the program of lifelong learning;
• Establishment of educational centers in cooperation with educational, cultural, and health institutions;
• Promotion of scientific research work which takes into account gender perspective and diversity of identities and belonging;
• Support to the development of health reform and protection, programs of psychosocial rehabilitation and social revitalization through the professional training and promotion of strengthening of users’ initiatives, creation of new models of treatment based on the scientific evidence, and psychosocial support and help to vulnerable groups.

TPO Foundation, in cooperation with a group of intellectuals and activists, initiates the Program for Interdisciplinary Learning and Research (PILAR), which focuses on affirmation of interdisciplinary approach in methods of learning and research in all segments of bh. society.
The aim of this kind of approach is a creation of public welfare which has been systematically demolished over 20 years. It is necessary to ensure valuable knowledge, skills, and competencies which qualify people to improve both their private lives and public welfare through social engagement of all categories of population in order to use human capital and resources, especially of the youth, in the best possible manner. The important step in that process is to annihilate false division between the academy and community and secure an equal approach to education for all. In this kind of approach, we are gathering all existing platforms and initiatives interested in collective work on public welfare, through the following program themes: Politics of memory and creation of social solidarity; Research of trauma in everyday life; Cultural production and evidence of trauma.

BROCHURE - INTERDISCIPLINARY CLASSROOM ZENICA – ZAGREB – BEOGRAD

UNHEALED TRAUMA – PROCEEDINGS, 2017

"WE CHILDREN OF OCCUPATION – STORIES OF OCCUPATION SOLDIERS' DAUGHTERS AND SONS," 2016

TRAUMA, MEMORY, HEALING – PROCEEDINGS, 2014

TPO Foundation PILAR (Program for Interdisciplinary Learning and Research) in May, 2022 gathered students from the University of Zenica in Srebrenica aiming at dealing with the past withing the mutual project Culture of Memory. Interdisciplinary classroom were run by professor Edisa Gazetić, psychiatrist Dr. Amra Delić and Dr. Melina Sadiković who discussed selective memory and politization of memory themes with students.

TPO Foundation is one of the partners in the EU project  #NeverAgain project that aims to address the concealed hatreds, prejudices and normalized oppression that are learnt through the unhealed and transmitted traumas perpetuated in our everyday lives through seemingly harmless everyday practices. The project partners from Finland, Denmark, Romania, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Lithuania, Poland, Italy will together with students develop and deliver 4 clusters of local events with their communities to test experiential learning tools (ELT) in order to experience the harmful effect of transmitted collective traumas and how they impact the continuation of hatreds and vengeance today. Events will bring together around 200 students and additional 200-300 community members and invited audiences and influence numerous other individuals by using event hashtags on the social media. The processes and outcomes will be presented at the final event "#NeverAgain: Teaching Transmission of Trauma and Remembrance through Experiential Learning", a workshop-based conference, where we aim to attract between 50-100 professionals and young people from across Europe, from a variety of disciplines and fields of work: from universities, NGOs, public bodies like museums and memorial houses, community workers and individuals. In the dissemination phase, we plan to develop and launch a transnational blended educational platform, combining different in-class experiential group methods and individual online webinars/videogames to be disseminated among teachers of all fields tackling with collective memory but also educators from the non-governmental sector and other public bodies. The project is implemented in the period of 2018-2019.
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The third interdisciplinary classroom ''Politicised Memories: Battle for the Territory of Collective Memory'' was organised by TPO Foundation on Thursday, September 15, 2016 in Belgrade. The classroom gathered students from B&H, Croatia and Serbia in one place once again and the setup of lecturers did not lag behind previous two classrooms so this time at the desk were Dubravka Stojanović, Sonja Biserko, Staša Zajović, Milivoje Bešlin, Momir Samardžić and Milovan Pissari. Discussed themes were representation of different history nad its facts in history schoolbooks, the Holocaust of Roma which is regularly concealed in the public and school syllabi, feminist approach of facing the history, historical revisionism and political use of the past, dissolution of Yugoslavia in the context of international relations and standardisation of language by the end of 19th century and beginning of 20th century as an example of national identity creation. >> MORE