The International CERV project is an innovative interdisciplinary project in which anthropologists, historians and psychotherapists from the border areas of Slovenia, Italy and Austria will try to contribute to the reconciliation and healing of border societies traumatised by the difficult border history (fascism, Nazism, World War II, Istrian exodus). The project addresses borderland remembrance, reconnection, restoring, resilience and healing of communities with conflicting, traumatic memories along the former Iron Curtain. The recent past in these multi-ethnic Slovenian-Italian and Slovenian-Austrian borderlands has been burdened by totalitarian, authoritarian regimes (fascism, Nazism), World War II crimes and inter-ethnic conflicts. The memories of people living side by side have been politically abused and today compete for victimhood. A memory of one group is used to immunise against its neighbour. While some memories are exposed, others are silenced, ignored. A need has been identified to foster intercultural, inter-ethnic and international dialogue which encourages the construction of a shared European memory based on responsibility, self-criticism, emphatic view of the “other”. Memories of silenced groups which have been neglected in dominant national memories will be given voice by upgrading them in a historical, anthropological, educational and psychotherapeutic frame.