Tito monument Vraca
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Senka Bajramovic
In the framework of the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Program Memos has received significant support from the German National Agency "Jugend für Europa". Between 2014 and 2018, three transnational mobility projects for young people as well as professionals and volunteers in the youth field have been funded. Details are described in the Erasmus+ Results Platforms under their titles: Recollecting the Future, Brain Drain, Brain Gain + Circular Migration and Boosting Transversal Skills. Altogether, they consisted of two networking meetings, a study visit, a history workshop, two youth conferences and two training seminars. The activities were conducted in Bosnia-Herzegovina, North-Macedonia, Montenegro, England and Germany and have driven our capacity building, both in terms of individual skills and organizational level of development.
Memos has built up close ties with four Erasmus+ co-applicants, the Institute for Youth Development KULT in Sarajevo, Volunteers Centre Skopje in North Macedonia and the Youth Office in Nuremberg. A particular partnership has developed with the Historical Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Originally founded as the Museum of the Revolution in 1945, it was renamed to Historical Museum of Bosnia-Herzegovina after the downfall of Yugoslavia. The Museum is responsible for the maintenance of the Vraca Memorial Park dedicated to the World War II victims in Sarajevo. Vraca covers 78,000 square meters and mentions the names of over 11,000 men, women, and children killed during World War II. In 2005, the park was declared a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Memorial is in less than two kilometres walking distance from the Museum. The Tito-statue featured on our website, is located in the South-Western corner of the park. Nowadays, the statue is almost forgotten. Like the former president of the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia himself, it plays an ambiguous role in the Western Balkan’s search for identity.