Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Prof. Piotr Gliński and the Lithuanian Minister of Culture, Simonas Kairys, declared during their visit to Kyiv that both countries would co-finance the development of a platform for the digitization of Ukrainian cultural heritage.

Last year, the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine completed the first stage of digitization of intangible heritage objects and started the creation of a special register. The war complicated these plans, but the support of Poland and Lithuania will allow for the digitization and protection of Ukrainian culture in digital form.

“I initially agreed and the Lithuanian minister also agreed that, since the European Union has not done it yet, Poland and Lithuania, together with Ukraine will create a fund for the digitization of Ukrainian culture”, said Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Gliński during a press conference after the meeting with the ministers of culture of the Lublin triangle countries (Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania) in Kyiv.

“This will be a concrete step and we will implement that”, emphasized Prof. Gliński and informed that the “initial” fund of this venture will amount to about one million euros.

The deputy prime minister and minister of culture emphasized that Poland was very committed to supporting Ukrainian culture.

“For years, we have had very good relations with Ukrainians on the level of institutional and museum cooperation, and cooperation with archivists, our conservation teams have been working here for years – this is paying off today. The day before the war broke out, we established a special team at the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage to coordinate this aid. We have already delivered over 20 transport convoys, mainly to Lviv, but also to Kyiv”, said Prof. Glinski.

Adrian Andrzejewski