What does it mean when an organization like ours advocates for education? We’re essentially calling for a massive, democratized emancipation of all people. The word emancipation connotes “fighting for freedom,” and that’s exactly what our organization strives to achieve: to give freedom to the new thinkers of the world so they can overcome the burdens of their ancestry.
In this particular journey, ancestry is embodied in two culturally distinct narratives: the Muslim and the Orthodox stories of the Balkan Peninsula, whereas emancipation refers to expanding on those narratives and improving them. The people from our organization represent one side of this story, while our Turkish partners exemplify the other side of the very same story. Throughout many turbulent epochs in this region’s history, misguided leaders sought to divide the people, while the people themselves struggled to unite into one peaceful whole, a unity that, all too often, gave way to war, ominously repeating itself through time and across borders. Today, we aim to show that the new globalized spirit our partners (#Turks #FabLab) and we (#Serbs #InterEdu) have embraced knows no division but respects diversity; tolerates no nationalism, yet praises nationality; and above all, recognizes love everywhere, no matter the cultural border, because all cultures share that exact value.
Thanks to our idealistic yet realistic principles, InterEdu has explored possibilities for furthering international collaboration with our Turkish partners. After they welcomed us into their culture in Antalya, Türkiye in July, 2025, it was our turn to do the same—and we likewise took the task seriously!
From the lively, intercultural streets of Sarajevo (buzzing with the guardians of three different religious pillars) to the quietly, marbelously charming Andrićgrad (built in white marble), and finally to Sirogojno, with its rural serenity wrapped in rustling straw, we toured each place that offered its own inspiring motif for our next project idea.
This is what we live for: connecting people for the sake of correcting past ideals into new ideas. We have been blessed to meet such wonderful partners who expanded the boundaries of what we knew, and for that we appreciate them more than we could ever express, even with all the warmth of the famous Balkan hospitality.