The Unitas Foundation

The Unitas Foundation (Estonian: Sihtasutus Unitas) was a non-profit foundation based in Tallinn, Estonia. The foundation was established in 2008 by Mart Laar, Meelis Niinepuu and Damian von Stauffenberg. In 2017, the Unitas Foundation merged with the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, forming an institution that combines academic research concerning anti-human regimes (previously the responsibility of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory) with awareness-raising (the responsibility of the Unitas Foundation). The new foundation continues with the name The Estonian Institute of Historical Memory. The goal of the Unitas Foundation was to acknowledge the anti-human nature of totalitarian regimes and ideologies and to achieve an international condemnation of their crimes. It is a founding member of the Platform of European Memory and Conscience, an educational project of the European Union bringing together government institutions and organisations mainly from the EU, active in research, documentation, awareness raising and education concerning the crimes of totalitarian regimes. The foundation's activities were mainly financed by European public institutions, as well as individual and organizational donors.